Still hovering around some local cinemas - and the longest-delayed of all my outstanding reviews - Still Mine is a surprisingly effective Canadian drama about an elderly man (James Cromwell,…
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Near the end of 1979, the new hardline rulers of Iran - incensed by the US government’s support for the previous despot - stormed the embassy in Teheran and held…
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This past week may have been the most consistently satisfying week of cinema-going since I started this journey with you back in 2006: seven very different films, all with something…
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Let's get the unpleasantness out of the way first: watching The Farrelly Brothers' ugly remake of Neil Simon's The Heartbreak Kid was a trial beyond all human endurance. After about…
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There's something creepy yet disarmingly human about Peter O'Toole's ageing lothario in Venus; a once beautiful actor still working sporadically, his cadaverous features best-suited to the literal portrayal of corpses,…
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