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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Welcome to the 2010 “cut out and keep” guide to video renting (or downloading or however you consume your home entertainment these days). I suggest you clip this article, fold…
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Lars von Trier on Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (via Kottke and Gruber): I saw the film when it came out. I was in my early twenties. The first time I saw…
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Full disclosure: I wrote a play about Michael Jackson once ("Dirty Doris", BATS 1995) so I’ll confess to always being interested in the real character behind the tabloid and music…
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It’s going to be a massive few months for Wellywood - District 9 seems to have come out of nowhere to take the world by storm (Currently #35 in the…
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Sacha Baron Cohen is, in this reviewer’s opinion, the most gifted comic actor of his generation - a new Peter Sellers for those of us who remember who Peter Sellers…
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