Tag Archives: Inglourious Basterds

Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Posted on 20 May 2010 by admin

Sherlock Holmes Partners in crime… Sleuth Holmes (Robert Downey Jr) and stalwart sidekick Watson (Jude Law) are on the trail of a serial killer who appears to have risen from the dead in Guy Ritchie’s period thriller. If you can … Continue reading →

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Posted on 14 May 2010 by admin

Avatar Out of this world… Titanic director James Cameron creates an alien world starring Sigourney Weaver in what could be the most expensive movie ever made – but this time the aliens are the good guys.


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“White Lady Saves the Day” & other honest movie titles

Posted on 11 March 2010 by Jason Best

The red-carpet may have been rolled up for another year, but we’re still chuckling over the spoof movie posters for this year’s Academy Awards list of Best Film nominees. This honest-title poster for The Blind Side is spot on, but … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Army of Crime – Grim tale of violent resistance in occupied France

Posted on 8 February 2010 by Jason Best

Sombre, realistic and grimly faithful to the facts, French World War Two thriller Army of Crime (L’armée du crime) provides a very different view of wartime resistance in occupied France than either the counter-factual cheek of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds … Continue reading →

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Avatar, The Hurt Locker and An Education get loved up by BAFTA

Posted on 21 January 2010 by heidi

The luvies at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts have just announced their nominations for this year’s BAFTAs and surprises are in fairly short supply. James Cameron’s eco-friendly sci-fi blockbuster Avatar looks set to be one of the … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | Inglourious Basterds

Posted on 5 December 2009 by Jason Best

I’m still not fully won over by Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, but there’s no denying his darkly comic World War Two action movie’s brazen counter-factual cheek or its genre-hopping panache. The story that allows Tarantino to hop from genre to … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | Fish Tank

Posted on 11 September 2009 by Jason Best

British director Andrea Arnold won an Oscar in 2005 for her short film Wasp and she made an arresting feature debut the following year with her Glasgow-set suspense thriller Red Road, which scooped the Prix du Jury at Cannes in … Continue reading →

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Posted on 10 September 2009 by admin

District 9 Illegal aliens… A bureaucrat’s attempts to relocate a stranded alien species from a refugee camp in Johannesburg go awry in this Peter (Lord of the Rings) Jackson produced sci-fi. If you can see this, then you might need … Continue reading →

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Posted on 26 August 2009 by admin

Inglourious Basterds Bloody battle… Set in Nazi-occupied France during World War Two, Quentin Tarantino’s revenge movie follows a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers as they attempt to spread fear through the Third Reich. If you can see this, then you … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino’s WW2 revenge fantasy: it’s not only the spelling that’s juvenile

Posted on 19 August 2009 by Jason Best

  “Once upon a time in Nazi-occupied France…” So begins Quentin Tarantino’s much-hyped World War Two action movie, an ultra-violent fairy tale in which a band of scalp-hunting Jewish-American soldiers go on the rampage behind enemy lines… and, in an … Continue reading →

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