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The Moviejerk’s Best of Cinema: 2016 Edition

Whatever the hell Martin Scorcese’s been smoking these days, I’m not having any of it. Spouting untruths like a proclaimer of gospels, he righteously preaches “Cinema is gone!”, after which millions of over-stressed…

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Film Reviews

The Wolf of Wall Street (2014)

That ever-persistent joke about Leonardo DiCaprio having as much Oscar success as the rest of us scums of the Earth would need a serious rethink soon as The Wolf of…

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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ has a new trailer

Whenever I go through my bad days, I often remind myself that I’ve won as much Oscars as Leonardo DiCaprio. Which is zilch. But that will all soon change, hopefully,…

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Cannes 2013: The Great Gatsby

Many will bemoan Baz Luhrmann’s take on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s immortal tome The Great Gatsby for its deliriously brazen approach on one of America’s greatest pieces of modern literature, synchronising Jazz Age…

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‘God’ and ‘Gatsby’ ramp up the excitement

There are two things running around my mind this week: 1) Ryan Gosling can punch you right in the face and drag you across the floor by the jaw whilst…

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J. Edgar (2011)

Beautifully set and lovingly shot, Eastwood does a creditable job in tough circumstances. There is no intention here to rehabilitate Hoover but there isn’t enough to understand him either. Perhaps that’s testament to J. Edgar’s legendarily awkward relationship with Hollywood, or just a fitting tribute to a man who spent a lifetime building a legacy only to order it destroyed upon his death.

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Lavish ‘The Great Gatsby’ Trailer

Nobody does cinematic extravagance quite like Baz Lhurmann. Continuing his penchant for anachronism and revisionism, he tackles on Western Literature’s greatest baggage-heavy, death-to-the-American-dream novel of all-time, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless The Great Gatsby, and serves up what looks like 2012’s most sumptuous, lavishly executed film.

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