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The Martian (2015)

We all should really know by now that, at least in Hollywood’s own mental frame of reference, if you’re stranded somewhere (whether on Earth’s terra firma or on another planet deep in…
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Interstellar (2014)

To ridicule Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar as preposterous is perhaps just being plain unfair. To direct opprobrium to those who dare and try to unlock the secrets of our cosmos, and that includes filmmakers…
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The Maze Runner (2014)

The secret formula on How To Make It Big these days must be extremely obvious by now. You just have to look at YA adaptations. Except you’d take the shameless…
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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Tom Cruise’s usual fare is to turn up, look stony-faced, athletically throw himself onto some bad guys, then pocket the pay-check and return home. But the best parts of his…
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The Machine (2014)

Somewhere halfway through Caradog James’ self-serious sci-fi The Machine, Toby Stephens’ beleaguered scientist Vincent asks the sleek, slinky and almost feline female android he’s created “What are you, really?” A…
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Under The Skin (2014)

Nothing will prepare you for Jonathan Glazer’s Under The Skin. In a curious extreme left turn, the director follows 2004’s Birth with this mind-meltingly abstract, defiantly unconventional feature, as if he’s…
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Blu-ray: Man of Steel (2013)

Superman is so deeply embedded in popular culture that the possibility of reconfiguring its mythology is like rewriting the New Testament which would no doubt result to hordes of puritans…
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

Now that Twilight has now officially vacated the YA building, the young-adult fantasy genre featuring hot, erotically-challenged young things involving themselves in mortally shit perilous adventures and fumbling ménage à trois…
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Gravity (2013)

Since when was the last time mainstream filmmaking became legitimately convincing, awe-inspiring and goddamn beautiful as this? All your Avatars, Dark Knights and Avengers can go suck Hollywood’s rectum, as…
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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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LFF 2013: Gravity

Since when was the last time mainstream filmmaking became legitimately convincing, awe-inspiring and goddamn beautiful as this? All your Avatars, Dark Knights and Avengers can go suck Hollywood’s rectum, as…
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Man of Steel (2013)

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Cannes Short 2013: Agophobia

One of my worthwhile discoveries in the Court Métrage or the Short Film Corner in Cannes Film Festival this year was this blindingly ambitious 30-minute short film enticingly titled Agophobia by…
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Oblivion (2013)

Joseph Kosinki’s sci-fi pretender Oblivion arrives at our cinemas with an unmistakably bulky baggage. It piles up an excessive weight of borrowing, conscious or unintentional, bearing the absolute  misfortune of…
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Melancholia (2011)

Like most of Lars von Trier’s films, this surreal sci-fi drama divides the house, drawing scathing critique and towering praise in equal measure. But there’s no denying its haunting, redemptive power. The true mark of a film’s greatness is when it burns in the mind long after you see it, and Melancholia does exactly just that. This is bold, aesthetically impressive filmmaking of the high order with an astonishingly nuanced central performance by Dunst.
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Lars Von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ Trailer

It seems like 2011 is going to be a strange but beautifully surreal year for cinema. First off, we have Terrence Malick pouncing back to the scene with his astronomical shards of wisdom in The Tree of Life, and boy, the trailer is just stunning. Now, we have Danish provocateur Lars von Trier, the enfant terrible of European cinema, fresh from his Antichrist brouhaha, giving us a first glimpse to his recent opus, the dramatically-titled Melancholia.
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Never Let Me Go (2010)

It never quite give the emotional catharsis the story needs, but Never Let Me Go is a lesson in subdued, understated storytelling, undermined by this era of dramatic fireworks. Less is more, and Romanek has crafted a quietly devastating, thought-provoking meditation on the impermanence of human life so profound that it makes a hundred sci-fi dramas look overwrought.
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