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2016 London Film Festival Review: Planetarium

Posted by on Oct 15, 2016 in All, drama, fantasy, Headline, indie, Reviews, war | 0 comments

Many modern films are made to be easily digested, perhaps a little too easily, lending them a flimsy quality. Others take time, the...

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Review: The Girl on the Train…wants to get off

Posted by on Oct 4, 2016 in All, Books, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 2 comments

Paula Hawkins’ phenomenally successful book may be ubiquitous, but I hadn’t read it, so I came to the film of The Girl On The Train...

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Burnt shows why we need mid-range movies

Posted by on Sep 5, 2016 in All, comedy, drama, Headline, indie, Reviews, romance | 0 comments

  Matt Damon recently said that mid range movies aren’t being made anymore, which is probably true and breaks my heart....

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Review: Louder Than Bombs

Posted by on Apr 14, 2016 in All, drama, Film, Headline, indie, Reviews, romance, war | 0 comments

The title doesn’t do justice to Louder Than Bombs, potentially misleading audiences while not focusing on the real heart of this...

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Tarantino wants to improve you

Posted by on Jan 13, 2016 in All, Film, News | 0 comments

The Hateful Eight is both typically and atypically a Quentin Tarantino movie. It is full of his usual flourishes, beautiful panoramas,...

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Review: Joy

Posted by on Jan 8, 2016 in All, biopic, drama, Film | 0 comments

It’s hard not to fall in love with Jennifer Lawrence. In a sea of hilariously honest jokes, tripping over her toes and Norma Rae...

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Review: Carol

Posted by on Nov 23, 2015 in drama, Film, Reviews, romance | 0 comments

I have a confession. Sometimes I worry about the readers of these reviews, their gender and their agenda…so I tailor the words and...

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Review: High-Rise

Posted by on Nov 17, 2015 in action, All, Books, Film, Reviews, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments

Ten minutes in to High Rise, Tom Hiddleston nonchalantly pulls the rubberised facial muscles from the skeleton of a cadaver. This graphic...

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2015 London Film Festival Review: A Bigger Splash

Posted by on Oct 16, 2015 in All, Film, Reviews | 0 comments

Ralph Fiennes can really swivel those hips. The camera in A Bigger Splash is obsessed with the way Fiennes moves his (often naked,...

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Review: Miss You Already (Ignore the title – watch the film)

Posted by on Sep 3, 2015 in All, Film, Reviews | 0 comments

Beautiful cute furry kittens. Well I can hardly start this review with the word CANCER or you’ll never read on. But Miss You Already is a...

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