London Film Festival 2016: Part One
There’s nothing like an autumn season film festival that can drag me out of my hole than London Film Festival, this frenetic city’s premier twelve-day movie marathon. OK, it’s not exactly…
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Carol (2015)
There’s rarely anything out there that feels as deeply as Carol. Todd Haynes’ achingly sublime, artful evocation of love is a rarefied, nearly-extinct breed of cinema that breathes life into the classically…
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LFF 2015: Queen of Earth
The fact that some of the greatest filmmakers of our time have essentially built careers on women going absolutely nuts on screen is worth mentioning since this might just be…
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LFF 2015: The Assassin
For those expecting for the new heir to Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Zhang Yimou’s Hero in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin, look elsewhere. This isn’t the crowd-pleasing, epic-making…
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LFF 2015: When Marnie Was There
It’s easy to see When Marnie Was There will touch a lot of emotional chords, and not only because it’s Studio Ghibli’s final effort (in the interim, at least), but…
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LFF 2015: The Club
It’s no secret that the world’s wealthiest, tax-free organisation aka the Vatican preserves the sacrament of priesthood like it’s the Holy Grail, sending so-called disgraced priests into faraway homes in…
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The Way He Looks (2014)
It’s remarkable how The Way He Looks defiantly refuses to be categorically pigeonholed in cinema. Not for a single moment the word ‘gay’ is uttered and no conventional reference to…
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LFF 2014: Wild
When shit hits the fan, we can now all turn to cinema for a dose of inspiration to go through some helluva adversity in pure Hollywood-style. Depending how deep you’re…
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LFF 2014: Pasolini
A fiercely independent filmmaker chronicles one of cinema’s most searing non-conformists – sounds like a match made in film heaven. Abel Ferrara, in all creative virtue, attempts to demystify Pier…
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LFF 2014: ’71
Jack O’Connell possesses about him the kind of gritty, British masculinity that’s rarely been around the silver screen for a while. His is a refreshing presence, and also very impressive how…
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LFF 2014: The Duke of Burgundy
All hail Peter Strickland. At last, a new film that magnificently refuses to harken to your sad, mediocre, low-grade, commercial expectations. To sum up his third feature in a mere…
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The Moviejerk’s Best Films of 2013
The year 2013 is anything but ordinary. What I predicted to be another nondescript annum in the calendar of my human existence turned out to be quite the opposite. As…
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LFF 2013: Stranger By The Lake
The film with the most walkouts I’ve seen in Cannes Film Festival this year (counted at about eight, including the fiftysomething woman beside me who seemed to be having a…
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LFF 2013: Don Jon
In an era when romantic comedies have become a cussing arena for anyone whose tolerance for the genre is proportionate to tantrum-inducing levels, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the indie-kid-turned-Hollywood-lovechild, attempts at reviving…
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LFF 2013: 12 Years A Slave
Any film with an opening assertion ‘Based on a True Story’ can hold a mighty thrall on audience expectations that questioning the film’s credibility is often considered a veritable historical…
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LFF 2013: Kill Your Darlings
How far has Daniel Radcliffe distanced himself from the bespectacled boy wizard? Let me count the ways – 1) by stripping naked on top of a horse in Equus, 2)…
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LFF 2013: Blue is the Warmest Colour
First love, when it grabs hold and takes over, is a maddening, all-consuming, intoxicating surrender of the senses. Cinema has plumbed all manners of depths to this topic, but perhaps…
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LFF 2013: Tom at the Farm
The label ‘wunderkind’ seems to be thrown around quite lightly these days, but it doesn’t quite achieve its full meaning as when appropriated to a certain 24-year old Québécois filmmaker.…
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LFF 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis
The Coen brothers’ new one has something deceptive up its sleeve. It’s a film about disappointments, tribulations, lousy friends, irritant ex-lovers, hitchhiking on snow, endless couch-surfing,being perpetually skint and failing at…
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LFF 2013: Under The Skin
Nothing will prepare you for Jonathan Glazer’s Under The Skin. In a curious extreme left turn, he follows 2004’s Birth with this mind-meltingly abstract, defiantly unconventional feature, as if he’s spent…
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