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Film review | The Great Gatsby – Baz Luhrmann gives Gatsby glitz but true class is missing
Baz Luhrmann’s much-hyped adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is everything you’d expect: brash, glitzy and bursting with the director’s trademark razzle-dazzle. If Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age classic is the Great American Novel, then this frantically jazzed-up 3D film … Continue reading
Film review | Mud – Beguiled on the Mississippi by Matthew McConaughey’s tale-spinning outlaw
With its story of a scrappy teenage boy aiding a fugitive on the Mississippi River, writer-director Jeff Nichols’ beguiling coming-of-age adventure Mud can’t help but evoke that great American classic Huckleberry Finn. The setting, though, is the present-day Arkansas Delta … Continue reading
Film review | Deadfall – Eric Bana is the bad guy with a gun in a whiteout thriller with a nifty noir vibe
A B-movie with an A-list cast, crime thriller Deadfall sets its plot in motion with some bracing shocks in its first few minutes. Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde’s incestuously close brother-and-sister crooks, Addison and Liza, are fleeing from a casino … Continue reading
Film review | Star Trek Into Darkness – JJ Abrams’ sci-fi sequel hits warp speed from the start
JJ Abrams hits warp speed right from the start of Star Trek Into Darkness, the sequel to his cracking 2009 reboot of the classic sci-fi series, kicking off the movie with a breathtaking sequence that combines breakneck thrills, deadpan comedy … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Pine, J J Abrams, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana
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Film review | The Look of Love – A flavour of Partridge for Steve Coogan’s porn playboy Paul Raymond
Steve Coogan and director Michael Winterbottom follow up previous collaborations 24 Hour Party People, Cock and Bull Story and The Trip with The Look of Love, a biopic of porn ’n’ property tycoon Paul Raymond, once the richest man in … Continue reading
Pete’s Peek | Shocking. Funny. Provocative. You won’t forget The ABCs of Death in a hurry
Inspired by alphabet teaching books, a group of cutting edge indie film directors from across the globe have created 26 short films ranging from the absurd, the baffling and the cleverly comic to the downright disgusting to create The ABCs … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Wingard, Adrían Garcia Bogliano, Anders Morgenthaler, Andrew Traucki, Angela Bettis, Australia, Banjong Pisathanakun, Belgium, Ben Wheatley, Bruno Forzani & Héléne Cattet, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, France, Indonesia, Jake West, Japan, Jason Eisener, Jon Schnepp, Jorge Michel Grau, Kaare Andrews, Lee Hardcastle, Marcel Sarmiento, Mexico, Nacho Vigalondo, Noburu Iguchi, Norway, Serbia, Simon Rumley, Spain, Srdjan Spasojevic, Thailand, The ABCs of Death, Thomas Malling, Ti West, Timo Tjahjanto, uk, USA, Xavier Gens, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Yudai Yamaguchi
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Film review | Bernie – Jack Black’s small-town mortician is a marvel in tragi-comic true story
In an inspired stroke of casting, Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine play sweet and sour in Bernie, an offbeat comedy based on a stranger-than-fiction true story. Texas funeral director Bernie Tiede (Black) is cheerful, public-spirited and beloved by everyone in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernie, Bernie Tiede, Carthage, Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, Richard Linklater, Shirley MacLaine, texas
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Film review | Iron Man 3 – Third time’s a charm as Downey Jr’s Tony Stark turns up the superhero snark
Robert Downey Jr is back for his third solo outing as billionaire inventor Tony Stark, aka metal-suit wearing superhero Iron Man, and he’s in splendidly sardonic, wisecracking form. Joss Whedon gave Downey plenty of knockout zingers in last summer’s Avengers … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldrich Killian, Avengers Assemble, Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Iron Man, Iron Man 3, Jon Favreau, Joss Whedon, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Marvel Comics, Maya Hansen, Osama bin Laden, Pepper Potts, Rebecca Hall, Robert Downey Jr, Shane Black, The Mandarin, Tony Stark
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Film review | Love Is All You Need – Pierce goes for a romantic encore (but this time he doesn’t sing)
Danish auteur Susanne Bier is best known for turning out award-courting, art-house fare such as her 2010 Oscar-winner In a Better World. She’s let her hair down, though, with Love Is All You Need, a crowd-pleasing romantic comedy-drama revolving around … Continue reading
Pete’s Peek | His satanic majesty Rob Zombie unleashes The Lords of Salem
THE STORY In 1692 Salem, as her coven of witches are put to death by judge John Nathaniel Hawthorne for creating satanic music, Margaret Morgan curses the judge’s female bloodline, promising that Satan will be spawned… In the present day, … Continue reading












