DVD Review: Anna Karenina [2012]

Feb 08, 2013 No Comments by

Now, if you’re looking for yet another review of this film, which intends to demonize any possible refreshing point of view for this sacred, classic story, you will have to look someplace else. I won’t be the one throwing sticks and stones. Set somewhere between the fantasy and reality, between history and modernity, between theatre [...]

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Modern Greats: Gattaca [1997]

Nov 27, 2012 No Comments

The aim of this feature is to identify the sparkling gems over the past 15 years which might not yet be acknowledged as such. To do so I’ll stay clear of any Best Picture nominees at the Oscars, and go for the well-known but often forgotten cinema greats of our day. Some may have been [...]

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Trailer Trash: Side Effects [2013]

Nov 07, 2012 No Comments

No sooner is Magic Mike dancing his way to DVD, director Steven Soderbergh and star Channing Tatum have a new movie already shot, chopped and ready for release. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes scriber Scott Z Burns reunites with Soderbergh after Contagion and The Informant, and nothing is as it seems in this twisty [...]

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£1 or Less: Closer [2004]

Aug 18, 2012 No Comments

Two strangers stumble upon and fall for each other, until years later the man complicates things when he believes he has found love at first sight with another woman. With beautiful clarity and brutal honesty, Closer’s four protagonists Dan (Jude Law), Alice (Natalie Portman), Larry (Clive Owen) and Anna (Julia Roberts) portray the complications that [...]

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Share Your Shame: A.I (Artificial Intelligence) 2001

Aug 02, 2012 No Comments

  Let’s set the stage. The year is 2001. Lord of the Rings is released, Harry Potter, Donnie Darko, Spirited Away, A Beautiful Mind, Monsters Inc, and Ameilé. To say amazing movies where created and delivered this year, is an understatement. And I loved them, I really loved them. Before I get to deeply into [...]

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