Before I Go To Sleep (2014)
To approach a film like Before I Go To Sleep with little knowledge of the narrative, its nifty twists and turns and psychological jolts, isn’t only appropriate but a necessity…
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The Ten Definitive Nicole Kidman Performances
Grace of Monaco is released this weekend, and for those in-the-know, Olivier Dahan’s take on Grace Kelly’s regimented and conflicted Mónegasque, post-Hollywood life has recently been under fire in Cannes…
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Cannes 2014: Grace of Monaco
Anyone aware of the troubled production of Olivier Dahan’s Grace of Monaco and the recent spate of utterly atrocious princess movies (cough, Diana, vomit) will attest that things haven’t bode…
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The full Cannes 2014 lineup is here – and it’s sexy as hell
Trust Cannes for cooking up a storm in both the Internet and the blogosphere – revealing today a super-sexy, orgasm-worthy list of films playing back-to-back at the Croisette next month…
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New ‘Grace of Monaco’ Trailer Looks Grand
Anyone anticipating Olivier Dahan’s much-publicised and vaunted Grace of Monaco, quiver your butts now as a full theatrical trailer has swept in courtesy of Warner Bros. UK, where Nicole Kidman…
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The Paperboy (2013)
It’s not very often I get to write about two Nicole Kidman films in less than a week – the first of which is Stoker, Chan-wook Park’s English language debut, which turns…
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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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65th Cannes Film Festival Line-Up!
It’s the breeding season of cinema, folks. What d’you expect. This is the much awaited time when auteurs pull out their wangs (that’s artistic egos for you, uninitiated ones) for public stroking and adoration. It’s the battle of men this year. Not that we’ll witness somebody like Haneke beating the life out of somebody like Kiarostami, but at least we’ll expect their films will make some particular impact. Let’s not kid ourselves, Cannes is the most prestigious film festival in the entire circuit. The French know and love their cinema. 9 out of my Top 10 Films last year all premiered in Cannes.
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Rabbit Hole (2010)
With its painful and sad excursion into parental grief, Rabbit Hole somehow provides hope in distress and beauty in the breakdown without reducing to schmaltz or diluting its honesty. This is a subtle, nuanced little film with a bruised humanity.
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Nine (2009)
What promises to be a bombastic musical with a shamanic alignment of megawatt star-power ends up with barely a bang. Rob Marshall’s Nine, despite of its lavish, slick production, gorgeous cinematography and art direction that oozes with 60’s retro chic, is a film of misfired ambitions. Far from Fellini’s original 8½, this is a mediocre, passable, if not entertaining, affair.
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