I really enjoyed Alexander Payne’s The Descendants - at least while I was watching it. Some films will do that to you, though. They push all sorts of groovy buttons…
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I’ve been watching reactions to other people’s “Best of 2011” with interest. It’s fascinating to see online commentors insist that films they have seen are so much better than films…
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I really don’t want much. It’s simple. All I ask is for someone with talent to take some of their life experience and merge it with that talent in the…
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So, after trawling through the many thousands of words written about cinema in these pages this year, I suppose you want me to come to some conclusions? Do some “summing…
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall was one of the surprise pleasures of 2008. An Apatow comedy that was relatively modest about it’s ambitions it featured a break-out performance from English comedian Russell…
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At what point in a man’s life does he decide to become a dry cleaner? For Joaquin Phoenix’s character, Leonard Kraditor, in Two Lovers that day is never and yet…
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