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DVD review | Shame – Fassbender bares all in McQueen’s drama of sex, lies and emotional pain
A fearless, unblinking, full-frontal portrait of a sex addict from actor Michael Fassbender and director Steve McQueen (no relation), who first worked together on the acclaimed 2008 film Hunger about IRA prisoner Bobby Sands. Fassbender plays 30-something New Yorker Brandon, … Continue reading
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Tagged Carey Mulligan, Michael Fassbender, Shame, Steve McQueen (artist)
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DVD review | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Wayne Wang’s generation-spanning tale of female friendship
With Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, director Wayne Wang, maker of The Joy Luck Club, has come up with another generation-spanning tale of female friendship set in both China and the West. This one is based on the bestselling … Continue reading
DVD review | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – The game’s afoot, again, for Downey Jr’s quirky ‘tec
Following the success of 2009’s surprisingly entertaining Sherlock Holmes, Robert Downey Jr’s manic, mischievous, unexpectedly kick-ass hero returns for A Game of Shadows, a sequel that is even more knockabout and irreverent than its predecessor. This time Downey Jr’s dandyish, … Continue reading
Film review | Dark Shadows – Johnny Depp camps it up again in Tim Burton’s chaotic vampire romp
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are back for their eighth screen collaboration with campy horror comedy Dark Shadows and the result is very much what you’d expect from their previous outings: good on look and atmosphere, poor on plot and … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Releases, Reviews, The Best View
Tagged Alice Cooper, Bella Heathcote, Carpenters, Chloe Moretz, dark shadows, Eva Green, Gully McGrath, Helena Bonham Carter, Jackie Earle Haley, Johnny Depp, Jonny Lee Miller, Michelle Pfeiffer, Moody Blues, Nights in White Satin, Tim Burton, Top of the World
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Film review | All in Good Time – Laughs and pathos as marital bliss eludes newlweds in Anglo-Asian comedy
Two young newlyweds struggle to consummate their marriage amid family turmoil in the boisterous, bittersweet Anglo-Asian comedy All in Good Time. A screen version of East is East writer Ayub Khan-Din’s Olivier-award-winning play Rafta Rafta, the tale is an updating … Continue reading
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Tagged All in Good Time, Amara Karan, Harish Patel, Meera Syal, Reece Ritchie
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Film review | How I Spent My Summer Vacation – Mel gets his mojo back in a scuzzy Mexican prison
Disgraced star Mel Gibson makes a bid for box-office redemption by playing an out-an-out rogue in the scuzzy, darkly comic crime thriller How I Spent My Summer Vacation. First seen at the wheel of a hurtling getaway car, dressed in … Continue reading
Film review | Safe – Jason Statham cuts a swathe through New York with fists, guns and one-liners
Trading blows with both the Russian Mafia and the Chinese Triads on the streets of New York, Jason Statham is at his bruising best in the action-packed, testosterone-fuelled slugfest Safe. He’s Luke Wright, an ex-cop-turned-cage-fighter who’s been a suicidal bum … Continue reading
Film review | Piggy – Brutal vigilante thriller puts the boot in – and it’s the viewer who feels stomped on
British writer-director Kieron Hawkes makes his feature film debut with Piggy, a sickeningly violent revenge thriller in which a shy London messenger boy becomes a psychopathic vigilante’s uneasy sidekick. Paul Anderson‘s homicidal avenger Piggy seems to spring fully formed from … Continue reading
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Tagged Kieron Hawkes, Martin Compston, Neil Maskell, Paul Anderson, Piggy
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Film review | Clone – Eva Green and Matt Smith star in a creepy sci-fi fable told at a snail’s pace
Former Bond girl Eva Green and current Doctor Who Matt Smith team up for this distinctly odd love-story-cum-sci-fi-drama in which Green’s grief-stricken woman has herself impregnated with the embryonic clone of her dead childhood sweetheart (Smith). It all gets sticky … Continue reading
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Tagged Clone, Doctor Who, Eva Green, James Bond, matt smith, Oedipus complex, Perfect Sense
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Film review | The Lucky One – Former teen idol Zac Efron is all grown up but keeps the boyish charm
Now sporting bristly stubble and a buff body, Zac Efron has come a long way from his carefree High School Musical days, but even though he’s playing a troubled Iraq war veteran in this glossy romance based on a Nicholas … Continue reading
