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"Time Lapse" Is A Clever Sci-Fi Film, But The Premise Is Developed Better...
The debut film of Bradley King does not appear to have received any kind of release in the UK at all, nor is one imminent. However it has appeared online. I first heard about Time Lapse whenBradley...
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"The Entity" Is A Neat Ghost Story And Does A Great Job With Its Dodgy Premise
Trigger warning for r*peLike a combination of The Exorcist and Demon Seed. The Entity is about a woman who finds herself sexually assaulted in her bedroom. When her children clearly cannot see any...
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"The Wolf Of Wall Street" Is Part Drama, Part Gross-Out-Comedy. It's Also...
Leonardo Di Caprio is great, but this is Casino all over again. A guy gets involved in a dodgy line of work and then suffers for it.That being said, an update of Casino is not a bad idea. Stockbrokers...
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"A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night" Is Slow And Arty, But All Rather...
The vampire is kind of awesome. It's an excellent performance. The vampire is wearing a headscarf and her modest muslim clothing is not drastically different from a traditional vampire's...
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Movie Guide 2015 - September-December
MOVIE GUIDE 2015SEPTEMBER - DECEMBERMy movie guide for the whole of 2015 'at a glance' is still available here.SEPTEMBERMost Anticipated MovieThe MartianUK release date: 30/09/15Directed by Ridley...
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"Dorian Gray" Is A Very Satisfying Adaptation
Essentially a kind of vampire movie. This adaptation of the Oscar Wilde story sees Ben Barnes (perhaps best known for his performance as Prince Caspian) as the titular figure.Beginning as a...
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"Wild" Has A Great Central Performance, But A Dodgy Story Progression....
Reece Witherspoon gives a great performance in this true story. It's perhaps a little unfortunate then how closely this follows in the footsteps of the film “Tracks” starring Mia Wasikowska.To get the...
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"A Most Violent Year" Is Promisingly Subtle, But Lacks A Decent Payoff After...
Oscar Isaac has played an arrogant out of work musician (Inside Llewyn Davis) and an ex-convict (Drive). Now he plays a struggling businessman transporting oil.The film is very dry and really my...
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"Mommy" Was A Strangely Overrated, But Well Acted, Drama About A Selfish And...
Mommy (2014)It turns out that it doesn't matter if you are abusive towards your mother, start fights in bars, act completely selfishly and set another boy on fire. If your dad died years ago, you come...
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"Ninjas Vs Monsters" Is A Satisfying Conclusion To This Perfectly Watchable...
Ninjas Vs Monsters (2012)When picking DVDs on Lovefilm I often get offered trashy horror movies, many of which have titles sneakily close to more mainstream films but also many which have intriguingly...
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Meanwhile on tumblr....
Soooo, I've been on tumblr for over a month now. Here's what you all missed....Well I got a surprising number of notes initially for just posting an image of Sadness from Pixar's "Inside Out" and...
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"Wild Tales" Is A Brilliantly Funny And Violent Anthology Movie. An Absolute...
Wild Tales (2015)This foreign (Argentinian/Spanish) anthology film had a fair bit of critical praise, yet it seemed like a pretty low profile release. It turns out that the film is violent and...
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"Digging Up The Marrow" Is An Inspired Horror-Comedy Faux-Documentary About...
Digging Up The Marrow (2014)Adam Green is a director with a clear passion for horror comedy. So far I had only seen his Hatchet movies (he only made the first two) and, while I disliked the second,...
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"REC 4: Apocalypse" Is An Inauspicious End For The REC Series. Still...
REC 4: Apocalyse (2014)On the one hand, we're back where we left off with the Angela storyline at the end of REC 2. On the other hand this is probably the worst movie in the REC series.I didn't think...
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Okay, So Your Horror Movie Has Effective Creepy Visuals, But Does It Have Any...
At The Devil's Door (originally titled "Home") (2014)Wow, this was kind of ridiculous. Perhaps the most annoying thing was that there were plenty of awesome sequences, but the plot was completely...
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An Interesting Follow-Up To "Berberian Sound Studio", With A Similarly...
The Duke of Burgundy (2014)Not about an actual duke! The Duke of Burgundy is a type of butterfly. This film is about a dominance and submission relationship between two women, one of whom is an expert...
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"Dracula Untold" Is A Silly Cheesy Film About A Vampire Superhero. Um,...
Dracula Untold (2014)While in some camps people were kind of appalled by this cheesy so-called origin story for Dracula, others moderately praised it as trashy fun. They're both right.Personally I...
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"Mea Culpa" Is A Disappointing Third Film From Cavayé But, Though Dumb, It's...
Mea Culpa (2014)Fred Cavayé's first two films both dealt with ordinary people in desperate situations. His first film "Pour Elle" (or Anything For Her) was about a man who decides to break his innocent...
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Miyazaki's Final Movie (Apparently) Is A More Down-To-Earth Tale But Still...
The Wind Rises (2013)Miyazaki's last movie (so far) is as much of an emotional rollercoaster as you'd expect from his work.Even though the subject matter here is not enchanting supernatural spectacle,...
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"Cobra" Is Such A Ridiculous And Cheesy Eighties Stallone Movie That It Feels...
Cobra (1986)If this were a spoof it would probably get top marks. This film is illogical and ridiculously stylised in a way that just screams 80s.The protagonist is constantly undermined by detectives...
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