Cannes 2014: Maps to the Stars
Canadian stalwart David Cronenberg, who also happens to be one the world’s finest and most consistent filmmakers working today, has dealt with plenty of psychos in his entire career and…
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Mia Wasikowska
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Cannes 2014 Journal: Day Seven
My faith in cinema has been gloriously restored today by the new Dardenne brothers film Two Days, One Night (or its much better sounding title Deux Jours, Une Nuit). Perhaps…
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Cannes 2014 Journal: Day Six
Cannes has turned magnificently shitty today, pouring down with rain and lashing wet winds all day. Just when you thought it’s all perpetual sunshine in the Riviera. So I mostly…
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Cannes 2014 Journal: Day Five
Sundays are meant to be spent relaxing in bed with tea and croissant, and then fuelling up the entire day with Pinot Grigio while you lounge around in your shorts…
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The Double (2014)
Richard Ayoade is a man of many talents, most of which were unquestionably proven in his wonderfully left-field debut film Submarine, perhaps the coming-of-age movie to end all coming-of-age movies.…
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Only Lovers Left Alive (2014)
The genre of the undead, bloodsucking night-prowlers has long been buried into the grave of senseless mediocrity, no thanks to the patronising saga of teen romance, one which shall not…
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LFF 2013: The Double
Richard Ayoade is a man of many talents, most of which were unquestionably proven in his wonderfully left-field debut film Submarine, perhaps the coming-of-age movie to end all coming-of-age movies.…
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Stoker (2013)
There’s a long line of tradition in cinema of anti-heroines – suppressed females seduced into the carnal chutzpah of ultra-violence – that precedes the arrival of Stoker, Korean maestro Chan-wook Park’s…
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Nicole Kidman Goes Deliciously Unhinged in ‘Stoker’
It seems like Nicole Kidman is having a career renaissance. We’ve recently a remarkable rebirth of her talent, with Kidman nailing down superb, emotionally nuanced turns in Rabbit Hole, HBO’s Hemingway & Gellhorn and the Cannes controversy-stirring The Paperboy…
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Lawless (2012)
Lawless is a blood-filled crimson ruby. A fresh take on a dying classical gangster genre, a pleasurable alternative to the recycled superhero trash spat out of the Hollywood shit machine, where real, vulnerable men, not heroes, bravely fights against the corrupted system.
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The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Perhaps one of the most unapologetically honest American family dramas to emerge since Little Miss Sunshine. A funny, witty, wise and wonderful comic observation of the twenty-first century family foibles.
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Alice in the Wonderland (2010)
Not so much Burtonesque as shoddy Hollywood plot-picking, roll-calling, re-wrapping moribund mainstream affair. You’d wish Burton haven’t made this for Disney, as it feels like a Narnia déjà vu. Visually exuberant yet aesthetically uninspiring. Count this as another failed stab on Carroll.
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