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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... -
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... -
It Might Get Loud: 3 Men & an Amplifier
4th January 2010 | 2 comments | 3 people like this
Davis Guggenheim leaves the brain battering Powerpoint presentation of a documentary that was The Inconvenient Truth in the dust to make a simple film about three guitarists getting together to discuss the instrument they love.
I'm sure the thought of Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White sitting in a room together would have even the most modest player salivating on their pick guard, but does the film have anything to... -
Synecdoche New York: The Film of 2009
21st December 2009 | 8 comments | 3 people like this
Rather than hit up another top ten list of films from the last 12 months (mine would probably include The White Ribbon, A Prophet, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Milk, Fish Tank, A Serious Man and Encounters at the End of the World amongst others) I instead decided to put one egg in one basket.
Its a weird egg too so I must apologise.You know one of those ones with two yolks in... -
Avatar: Average & Spectacular
14th December 2009 | 8 comments | 3 people like this
James Cameron has always, honestly, made me go "wow". Watching from behind a cushion as Arnie popped his ruined eyeball into sink, grinning from ear to ear every time I watched Ripley fight the Alien queen sometime around 3am on channel 4 for the 3,000th time or seeing T1000's metallic bullet wounds heal over and that little smile curl his lips. Yet, oddly and as much as I love those...
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Film Review: Cracks
19th November 2009 | 4 comments | 1 person likes this
Jordan Scott's debut feature sends us all the way back to the 1930's to an all girls boarding school in England and directly into the smoldering and, every so often, that every so slightly crazy stare of the girl's favorite teacher Miss G (Eva Green). She swishes around the halls in her Hepburn-like silk trousers smoking cigarettes and filling the young ladies under her wing with stories of her own...
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Moon : A Real Space Oddity
20th July 2009 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
I've often wondered where the hell David Bowie came from. I know... Brixton, right?... but come on! Those records? That sound? That warbeling voice and the obsession with the planets? The notion of interstellar loneliness being universal? His genius knack for hooks and tones that sounded like they were from the planets he was singing about? Surely he came together first in a cosmic rush of light somewhere on the...
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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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