Tag Archives: Gomorrah

At the Cinema | A Prophet – French prison drama is the new crime movie kingpin

Posted on 20 January 2010 by Jason Best

French director Jacques Audiard’s gripping prison drama A Prophet is a further sign that European cinema is currently giving Hollywood a hiding when it comes to making exciting and intelligent crime movies. In the last year or so, Italian Mafia … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Il Divo – Surreal portrait of Giulio Andreotti, Italy’s puppet master

Posted on 20 March 2009 by Jason Best

With this surreal and sardonic, resolutely offbeat biopic of controversial Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, Paolo Sorrentino confirms his status as one of contemporary cinema’s most dazzling visual stylists. His subject is the sphinx-like figure who was at the heart of … Continue reading →

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Posted on 19 February 2009 by admin

Taken Rescue mission… A former CIA agent uses all his skills in an attempt to recover his daughter who has been abducted by sex-traffickers in France. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Gomorrah

Posted on 9 February 2009 by Jason Best

  Young Italian journalist Roberto Saviano has been in hiding since his gripping exposé of the inner workings of the Naples Mafia, the Camorra, became a bestseller – and prompted the city’s gangsters to pass a death sentence on him. … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Gomorrah – Fear and violence in the heartland of the Naples Mafia

Posted on 10 October 2008 by Jason Best

Think of gangsters in the movies and you probably come up with images of the Mafia crime dynasty in the Godfather movies, of Al Pacino strutting in a flashy white suit in Scarface or of Scorsese’s brash mobsters in Goodfellas. … Continue reading →

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TCM Crime Scene Festival

Posted on 24 September 2008 by heidi

If you fancy taking a walk on the wild side before the London Film Festival kicks off in October then why not burn rubber down to TCM’s 7th Annual Crime Scene Festival taking place in Central London from 24th to … Continue reading →

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