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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Compelled once again by Christmas deadlines to sum up the year in cinema, I have been thinking a lot about how some movies stay with you and some don't, how…
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Many years ago English comedian Ben Elton cracked a joke about Bob Dylan: "For all you young people in the audience he was the one who couldn't sing on the…
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When the current Writer-in-Residence at Victoria University's Institute of Modern Letters suggested I take another look at my negative review of Blades of Glory, I made a promise that (while…
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