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Review ‘The Fountain’
I caught an early screening of Darren Aronofsky’s third, much delayed and much talked about (Brad Pitt, 70 million bucks, 2002, Australia, tits up) esoteric sci-fi realist love-poem The Fountain...
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Why I don’t give a fuck if Peter Jackson directs ‘The Hobbit’
MGM and New Line are going to make The Hobbit. It will be two films shot simultaneously and will probably come out in 2009 or something. Peter Jackson’s company is suing New Line because they don’t...
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Stardust = Tasty Faerie Fantasy
You can count the number of really great fantasy films on one 7 fingered ogre hand, and since positive early reviews are cropping up online I feel more confident to throw my two pennies out about this...
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‘300′ Spartans, 1 opinion…
I don’t like to be unfairly negative but does anyone else have a bad feeling about the big budget blue screen adaptation of Frank Millers Sparta graphic novel ‘300’? Probably not (culturalelite...
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The Little Gold Guys
Ok, the world is literally teetering on the edge of apocalypse but the big story of January is always who will win the little gold guys ™ Here are my informed predictions. Some soothsayer shit....
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Letters from Dirty Harry
'Letters from Iwo Jima' is the second of Clint’s battle of Iwo Jima films and I can certainly see why it has had a lot of Oscar buzz. Sadly I haven’t seen Flags of Our Fathers (which is apparently...
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Untitled Star Wars TV series
Ok, this isn't fresh news, George Lucas mentioned it 18 months ago, but it's still happening. Up to 100 hours of Star Wars TV will be set in the 19 fictional years between the two film trilogies. It's...
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The Oscar Nominations arrive..
Best picture Babel The Departed Letters From Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine The Queen Best director Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima Stephen Frears, The Queen Paul Greengrass, United 93 Alejandro...
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‘The Darjeeling Limited’ has a full cast
Anderson’s films provoke a reaction in people. Me? I don’t give a fuck what anyone thinks about ‘The Life Aquatic’ or ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ or even ‘Bottle Rocket’. You can criticise his films until...
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James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’
The reason I get so excited about incredibly well made fantastical movies is because my imagination isn't vivid enough to allow me to picture elaborate, epic vistas in my mind’s eye. I love the...
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The Year of ‘Year of the Dog’
In my opinion you can’t beat dogs in movies. They’re always funny and they rarely overact. Tackling some dog action in the upcoming satire ‘Year of the Dog’ is Mike White; a great writer of acerbic...
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Harmony is back with ‘Mr Lonely’
It’s been ten years or more since Harmony Korine blew a hole in the indie scene with the unbelievably cool ‘Gummo’. He hasn’t directed since the crazy ‘Julien Donkey Boy’ in 1999. What’s...
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A little look at the ‘Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ script
It’s the 1990’s. Imagine you’re 43, you’re a handsome man, the toast of Paris and oh yeah, the editor of Elle. Pretty sweet right? And right now you’re driving a sports car. That’s so cool...
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So, let’s sort it out, was it real or all just a dream for Quaid?
Reality versus delusion, a recurrent Philip K Dick theme and something we all consider after a few too many shrooms. Think about it all too much and you can end up feeling like you’re gasping for air...
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Idiocracy Got Buttfucked
Mike Judge’s latest live action film after the classic ‘Office Space’ is a great, light-weight, but often hilarious, stoner sci-fi comedy. It’s straight to DVD (out today!) in the UK and only...
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“It’s a Wes Anderson film, you know!” A look at ‘The Darjeeling Limited’
I’m not going to call The Darjeeling Limited a return to form for Wes Anderson because ‘The Life Aquatic’ was a hugely entertaining movie. The general consensus seems to be that his previous...
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