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Video Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Pass me the Soviets
26th September 2011 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Joe West hides behind some 1970s curtains, peeking out at Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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Review: The King’s Speech – Look who’s talking
10th January 2011 | 3 comments | 1 person likes this
Colin Firth gags on consonants, prickles with anger which he aims at those around him and feigns pomposity to hide his self-loathing instilled by years of inadequacy. The fact that he is playing King George VI in The King’s Speech is ultimately beside the point because this is a story of a flawed man indentured to a false but contextually necessary institution who happens to have a debilitating stammer. Oscar...
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Review: Disney’s A Christmas Carol – harmless fun
4th November 2009 | 0 comments | 3 people like this
Did anyone watch 2007’s Beowulf? It was the first 3D film that I saw, though the most remarkable feature it displayed was the complete mapping and virtual replication of the leading actors’ faces. Seeing Ray Winstone’s chubby head plastered onto the muscle-bound body of a mythical warrior was odd to say the least. Beowulf’s director Robert Zemeckis has carried over this style to his latest picture, A Christmas Carol. This...
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Review: Dorian Gray – as perfect as the portrait in the attic
16th September 2009 | 2 comments | 2 people like this
The opening passage of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is simply a sublime piece of writing, oozing with sumptuous language and stuffed with images of decadent lethargy which typify the lifestyle of Lord Henry Wotton, the corrupting force behind the downfall of beautiful young Dorian. The new film based on the book, however, opens with Dorian murdering an unseen victim, then dragging the body in a chest to...
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Joe is a writer based in the UK. He is passionate about films, as well as video games and literature, and regularly blogs about new releases as well as forgotten classics and undiscovered gems from around the globe. Sometime's you'll find his posts peppered with fruity, pretentious language, but he means well.
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