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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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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... -
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... -
Nowhere Boy: A Tale of Two Mothers
4th January 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
I was listening to John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band LP yesterday after watching Sam Taylor Wood's impressive directorial debut about the teenage years of the most discussed and arguably most loved of the fab four. The always painful opener "Mother" somehow sounded deeper and even more sad. The hopeless wailing, angry vocal about his only parent makes for a small window into the relationship that almost passed both of them...
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Orphan: Who’s a good girl, then?
20th November 2009 | 4 comments | 3 people like this
Jaume Collet-Serra's horror/thriller Orphan certainly treads familiar territory. Imperfect parents Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John (Peter Sarsgaard) head off to the local orphanage to adopt a brother or sister for their two children. With Kate's recent still birth and bouts of alcoholism and infidelity playing heavily in the backstory the pair settle, as much as you don't want them too, on the obviously odd, charming and artistic Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman),...
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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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