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The A Team : B-Movie
13th July 2010 | 3 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
In what's been a pretty lame summer blockbuster season with few exceptions there has been a quiet rumble in the geek kingdom around Joe Carnahan's big budget remake of an 80's small screen paint by numbers gem. It's a remake which has been whispered about since the mid nineties. George Clooney, Jim Carey, Ving Rhames and a multitude of other casting wet dreams were woken up from and when producer...
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Shooting Michael Moore: A Fish in a Barrel
15th June 2010 | 4 comments | 3 people like this
A great documentary is an unbiased one. A great documentary can turn your brain inside out. It can kill thoughts which you were certain you would always have. They change minds and dispel myths, enrage nations and bring unseen beautiful people and stories in to peoples lives.
I guess my main problem with Michael Moore's feature documentaries was their obvious heavy approach, their set (and often painfully set up) pieces, the... -
Four Lions: Without Extreme Prejudice
27th April 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Ever since Chris Morris dropped the bomb that is himself on the public his name was always going to pull in controversy. From telling unsuspecting celebrities about a new designer drug called cake to injecting the words self facilitating media node into the brain holes and out of the hoot traps of the very people he was having a go at, his comedy has always sought to force the public...
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Dogtooth: One of a Kind
27th April 2010 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this
Yorgos Lanthimos outstanding second feature is quietly making waves on it's far too limited release. Pinned at a jaunty angle between the most savage Von Trier and the coldest Haneke, Dogtooth frequently out does both of their finest efforts and in doing so also manages to infuse a sense of humor so original it almost makes you forget just how strange 90 minutes in a cinema can really be.
Though your... -
Little Scene : The Return
7th April 2010 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this
Andrey Zvyagintsev's wonderful debut feature opens with a simple childhood test. A group of boys stand atop a look-out tower on stone pier against a drab Russian sky. Each one jumps, terrified, into the icy water below. The two boys left are brothers Ivan (Ivan Dobronravov) and Andrei (Vladimir Garin) and when the older finally jumps, leaving Ivan on the tower in the shivering cold, it's only his mother who...
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A Single Man: A Day in the Life
4th February 2010 | 5 comments | 4 people like this
Tom Ford, the Vanity Fair helming, Gucci saving, fashion designer, has delivered a fairly assured debut film. A Single Man, which looks just as sharp as Ford's tailoring, tells a 24 hour story held up by a central and almost career defying performance from none other than Mr Darcy himself, Colin Firth.
Looking like Yves Saint Laurent and often sounding like a mid 70's era Micheal Caine, Firth's smart debonair literature... -
Joanna Newsom: Return of the Queen
25th January 2010 | 5 comments | 3 people like this
The first time I ever saw the awkwardly shy, wonderfully cute and sickeningly talented Joanna Newsom around 2006 on a Later... with Jools Holland Episode, it was a find of epic proportions.
As the first words of the The Book of Right On fell out of this beautiful thing, cradling a ginormous harp and as everyone else in the room grimaced at her "squeeky" voice, It was then that I pretty... -
A Prophet: Audiard’s Crime Masterpiece
15th January 2010 | 3 comments | 2 people like this
Jacques Audiards knack with the crime film has been growing steadily in force since the his debut. Each film tightening, focusing, yet becoming more and more subtly complex.
When he decided to follow up the brilliant Hitchcock influenced Read My Lips, with a remake of James Toback’s little seen Fingers, he garnered his first world wide hit. The Beat My Heart Skipped showed a knack for character amongst the “cool” that... -
The Road: Bleak and Beautiful
12th January 2010 | 7 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Some time ago, Cormac McCarthy's post apocalyptic Pulitzer Prize winning novel really affected me (embarrassingly so) on a plane somewhere above Thailand. As I finished reading it on a long haul flight, after crying into my terrible airline food, i knew it was a book I, myself wanted immediately to make into a film.
The Road is definitely a cinematic novel. So vivid is McCarthy's writing and so brilliantly placed is... -
I’m Gonna Explode: Godard in Mexico
4th January 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
When I saw Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna's names as producers on at the front of Gerardo Naranjo's I'm Going to Explode I immediately got a sense of what might be in store. Young love, beautiful outcasts and a sun bleached road trip. I'm not sure what that says about the pair or the definitive themes in Mexican Cinema itself which has been blooming since the late nineties; But...
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Neil Innes
Neil was born in the UK but weaned on cinema in the world's most isolated capital city (Perth, Australia). He moved to london in 2001 where he works as a film editor and writer. He has travelled widely and is passionate about cinema and music and can often be found waiting on line in the Brixton Sainbury's. This column is a little celluloid-like piece of him.
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