I believe that it should be illegal to even mention the word Christmas in any month other than December. Yup, illegal. No one should be allowed to even breathe it,…
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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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Is it too early to suggest that we might be living in a golden age of cinema? Think of the filmmakers working in the commercial realm these days who have…
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My favourite post-Oscars quote came from David Thomson in The Guardian: “When the Slumdog mob – Europeans and Indians, adults and kids – took the stage to claim the best…
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After Slumdog Millionaire last week, everything seems kind of old-fashioned. At any other time a film like Milk would stand out from the crowd as an example of quality, thoughtful,…
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In the Slumdog Millionaire review the other day I called composer A.R. Rahman a "Bollywood legend" and, for those of you unfamiliar with his oeuvre I thought I'd give you…
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