I love it when a film raises the stakes. Done with wit, it can drag you back in to a film you might have been drifting away from. Done with…
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A dispiriting portrait of the current commercial cinema from Mark Harris in GQ: Such an unrelenting focus on the sell rather than the goods may be why so many of…
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Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire was my film of the year for 2009 - a potent and punchy roller-coaster ride of a film that made everything for months afterwards seem quaintly…
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Lloyd Cole came to town on Monday night and played some Lloyd Cole songs. With two excellent musicians (Americans Matt Cullen and Mark Schwaber) by his side, Cole gave us…
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Once again the Coen Brothers set a standard for every other film to try and match. True Grit is every bit as brilliant as its reputation would suggest: the best…
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OK, so here’s how this is supposed to work. I watch a whole lot of films, give you a hopefully spoiler-free rundown of what they’re about, offer you my impressions…
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