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The Oscars 2012 – Who will win? Who should win? Who’s missing?
Who’s going to make the biggest noise at this year’s Oscars? Will silence prove golden for hot favourite The Artist? Will The Help clean up? Or will The Descendants inherit all the glory? With the clock ticking down to Sunday … Continue reading
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Tagged albert nobbs, alexander Payne, Beginners, Bérénice Bejo, Brad Pitt, Bridesmaids, Christopher Plummer, demian bachir, drive, extremely loud & incredibly close, Gary Oldman, George Clooney, Glenn Close, Golden Globes, Hugo, Hunter McCracken, janet mcteer, Jean Dujardin, Jessica Chastain, Jonah Hill, Kenneth Branagh, Martin Scorsese, Max von Sydow, melissa mccarthy, Meryl Streep, Michael Fassbender, Michel Hazanavicius, Michelle Williams, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, My Week with Marilyn, Nick Nolte, Nicolas Winding Refn, octavia spencer, Oscars, Rooney Mara, Shame, Terrence Malick, The Artist, the descendants, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Help, The Iron Lady, The Tree of Life, Tilda Swinton, Viola Davis, War Horse, Warrior, We Need to Talk about Kevin, Woody Allen
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Film review | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Extremely awkward and incredibly whimsical more like
After tackling the Holocaust in his last film, The Reader, director Stephen Daldry takes on the trauma of 9/11 with this adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s bestselling novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Precocious 10-year-old Oskar (newcomer Thomas Horn) lost … Continue reading
Oscars 2012 – Nominations announced!
The 2012 Oscars nominations have just been announced and, as usual, following the Golden Globes and plenty of speculation, there aren’t that many surprises. Here are the main category nominees: Best Picture The Artist War Horse The Descendants Midnight in … Continue reading
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Tagged A Cat in Paris, A Separation, alexander Payne, Bérénice Bejo, Brad Pitt, bullhead, Chico & Rita, Christopher Plummer, demian bachir, extremely loud & incredibly close, footnote, Gary Oldman, George Clooney, Glenn Close, Hugo, in darkness, janet mcteer, Jean Dujardin, Jessica Chastain, Jonah Hill, Kenneth Branagh, Kung Fu Panda 2, Martin Scorsese, Max von Sydow, melissa mccarthy, Meryl Streep, Michel Hazanavicius, Michelle Williams, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, monsieur Lazhar, Nick Nolte, octavia spencer, Oscars, puss in boots, Rango, Rooney Mara, Terrence Malick, The Artist, the descendants, The Help, The Tree of Life, Viola Davis, War Horse, Woody Allen
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Flash Gordon – “Flash! – Ah-ah! He’ll save everyone of us!”
Fabulously over-the-top sci-fi romp Flash Gordon has just got a 30th anniversary re-release on Blu-ray. A galactic flop on release, producer Dino De Laurentiis and director Mike Hodges’ 1980 movie was as tacky as bubblegum – and so managed to … Continue reading
At the Cinema | Shutter Island – Leo risks a crack-up on Marty’s craggy island
Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio‘s fourth screen collaboration, is a psychological mystery thriller that takes place in 1954 and harks back to that era’s edgy film noir classics and exquisitely suggestive horror films. In look and mood, it recalls such … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Kingsley, Cold War, Dachau, Dennis Lehane, Gyorgy Ligeti, H-bomb, I Walked With a Zombie, Isle of the Dead, Jaqques Tourneur, Krzysztof Penderecki, Leonardo DiCaprio, Leopard Man, Mark Robson, Mark Ruffalo, Martin Scorsese, Max von Sydow, McCarthyism, Seventh Victim, Shutter Island
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The Exorcist
Couch Potato Pickings On Bravo tonight at 10pm I saw French and Saunders’ brilliant spoof of The Exorcist before I saw the real thing. It’s a testament to the skill of this comedy duo that I found their parody hilarious … Continue reading
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Tagged Ellen Burstyn, French adn Saunders, Lee J Cobb, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, The Exorcist, William Friedkin
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