Let's Talk About Tarantino's Bad 'Channel 4' Interview...
Really puzzled by this. Tarantino all of a sudden gets squeamish about talking about violence and movies. He point blank refuses to answer a question about why he thinks that real life violence and...
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Woman Wins Right She Already Possessed - Declared "Landmark" Case Against...
Some "big news" recently that the woman who worked for British Airways who had already won a ruling to allow her to wear a cross in the workplace, has now taken that same case to the European Court of...
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Google - Stop It!!!!
Okay, so when Google acquired Youtube suddenly they wanted to combine the two accounts. Fair dos.But recently I keep getting asked on Youtube in different ways to change my user name to my real name. I...
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Movie Review of "Les Miserables"
Les Miserables (2012)Normally when you write a review, you kind of want the final verdict to be a bit of a surprise. If someone doesn't want to wait for the surprise they can rush to the end, but to...
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My Top 10 Favourite Movies of 2011 (Plus some honourable mentions)
I already posted a massive list of 23 films last year. However, I've seen a few more films from 2011 since then. Also, my opinion has somewhat changed. Perhaps the bigger thing this time around,...
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Django Unchained Review + A Retrospective of Tarantino's Entire Directorial...
Django Unchained (2012)My recent post on Tarantino highlighted a rather dodgy interview where he refused to talk about violence. It's an odd point for Tarantino to get squeamish about since he's been...
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"A Royal Affair" - Visual Effects Extravaganza?
(video link)A Royal Affair was my favourite film of last year. I said in my "movies of 2012" list that it was the best costume drama I have ever seen. What I didn't realise, however, was that the film...
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My Moral Outrage Against The Film "Monsieur Lazhar"
Monsieur Lazhar (2011)This film was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar last year, there are people on the IMDB boards praising it for being an inspiring story and huge numbers of critics...
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Zero Dark Thirty - "War On Terror" Blockbuster - My Review!
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)What happened to Kathryn Bigelow? How exactly did she go from being this fairly mediocre genre-movie director to a highly talented director of beautiful moving films?It wasn't so...
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Tobe Hooper Review: "Death Trap" + Another Video Nasty (With Zombies!)
Tobe Hooper Review: A Video NastyAs per my previous few Tobe Hooper marathon instalments, I've paired this particular film review with another movie of a similar type. This time around both films...
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Die Hard 5 - It Would Have Been A Good Day To Watch Something Else...
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)Let me relay to you the exciting opening of the fifth instalment in the Die Hard franchise. A news report tells us that there is controversy in Russia surrounding the...
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Hitchcock Reverse Retrospective (Now 20 Films In!) - Part Five!
Finally here is my long-overdue set of Hitchcock reviews. I have now seen the last 20 films of Hitchcock's career. Since I am working through Hitchcock's films in reverse order, these four are the...
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Tobe Hooper Review: Crocodile Madness!
Tobe Hooper Review: Crocodile Madness!The film review pairing makes a little more sense this time. I have paired Tobe Hooper's "Crocodile" with another crocodile movie, "Lake Placid", which was...
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Movie Review - "Beasts Of The Southern Wild" - Abusive Father Fairytale
Beasts Of The Southern Wild (2012)I'd been looking forward to this for quite a while. I didn't get a chance to see it at the cinema when it was being compared favourably with "Pan's Labyrinth" (a...
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Shocking Disrespect Towards Oscar Winners During The Ceremony - And Most...
So, the Oscars ceremony rolls around again and we see yet more of the typical boring arguments about which films were picked by old white men who form the judges panel. There's criticism of Seth...
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"Stoker" - A Beautiful and Creepy "Coming-Of-Age" Psychological Thriller -...
Stoker (2013)Okay, you heard it here first (I'm guessing). "Stoker" is Chan-Wook Park's best film. Not just his best film since "Oldboy". His best film. Full stop.India Stoker has just turned 18 when...
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Oscar-themed Reviews Post! - (Over a week too late)
I've got a lot of reviews still outstanding and I'm going to see if I can catch up a bit. First of all, I recently saw some old Oscar winners: "All About Eve" (best motion picture 1951) and "Life Is...
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Horror Franchise Marathons - An Update And Discussion...
For quite a while now I've been making a point of posting horror reviews to rhoda_rants' awesome horror community Halloween Candy before I repost the reviews here. I've discovered a real passion for...
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Full review of "Dredd" (without the 3D) - Laying down the law.
Dredd (2012)Known as "Dredd 3D" in cinemas, this is one which I was absolutely dying to see and COULDN'T because there weren't enough blooming 'headache-free' showings available. I don't know how much...
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Review of "Margin Call" - Star-studded movie about the beginning of the...
Margin Call (2011)Though this is a film with a simple plot and pretty much everyone watching already knows the ending, everything slots together extremely well. A high quality script ensures that the...
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