It’s never been a tougher time to be running a film festival. In addition to the usual commercial considerations of just selling enough tickets to stay afloat, each year brings…
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Once again, things have gone a bit quiet around here but I have been producing some writing for the Internet at Russell Brown's Public Address blog for the last week…
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Most films go in one eye and out the other but some stick in your brain and won’t leave – for better or worse. John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s…
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Stars are important. Despite their supposedly waning influence on box office (Avatar managed perfectly well without a marquee name and Bruce Willis hasn’t carried a hit film in years) the…
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There’s something very odd about the opening scenes in Shutter Island and it takes the entire film for you to put your finger on it. Shots don’t match between cuts,…
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After watching so many films that are so similar in content and construction that they are hard to tell apart, it is a real pleasure to come across something that…
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