Two hitmen (Gleeson and the excellent Colin Farrell) have been sent to the sleepy Belgian town of Bruges to lie low after a job has gone wrong. Once there, they…
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It’s the weirdest coincidence. In two out of the three films I saw this week someone was shot in the ear. Seriously, go figure. Since I started this gig I’ve…
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The most purely emotional experience I have had in a cinema this year was watching the delightful documentary Young @ Heart during the Film Festival. It’s a life-affirming (and by…
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I bought a second hand Blu-ray player the other day on TradeMe. Now I know why: Ron Frick's 1992 masterpiece Baraka. Every home should have one. UPDATE: Evidently this is…
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Oh, what kind of year is 2008 that has two Coen Brothers films within it? In February I was swooning over No Country for Old Men and now, just a…
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Keira Knightley may only be 23 but (along with Daniel Craig and Simon Pegg) she's been given the unenviable job of saving the British film industry, a challenging task for…
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