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  • I Am Love

    I Am Love

    8th April 2010 | 3 comments | 1 person likes this


    Very rarely a film will break out from the fringes of the medium, from the rarified world of cineaste festivals and art house screenings into a broader mainstream consciousness and, through a series of mesmeric flourishes, transcendent jolts, diaphanously nuanced performances or the sheer scope of its artistic ambition will reaffirm the power of cinema to conjure magnificent and unique acts of arousal and awakening. As 2009 tipped into 2010...

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  • Review: A Prophet

    Review: A Prophet

    3rd March 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree


    Where James Toback’s 1978 drama Fingers was the inspiration for Jacques Audiard’s celebrated 2005 film The Beat That My Heart Skipped, for the pulsating, brutal and achingly tense prison drama A Prophet the French director has mined the likes of Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jules Dassin and Jean-Pierre Melville to create a instant genre classic and an audacious piece of cinematic story telling. It is the standout film of the...

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  • Top 10 films of 2009

    Top 10 films of 2009

    11th December 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this

    What’s in a list? Probably little more than an opportunity to show off, indulge in a some lazy cultural showboating and maybe even a chance to stir up a dash of barroom provocation. Perfect. So, in no particular order, here is my attempt to do just that. Any disagreements, disputes, outraged contempt, please feel free to comment.....

    1.       The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)

    Haneke’s latest masterpiece. Beautifully scripted, shot and acted it...

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Nick Clarke

Nick Clarke

Working in advertising, writing for a number of national newspaper and magazine titles and currently clawing his way through his PhD in film, Nick has nurtured a passion for media and the arts for over a decade. He tries not to take himself too seriously but finds it difficult. As such he harbours the faintly ridiculous belief that one- day he will write a definitive, universally lauded book on a subject that he thinks he knows something about. Given that he is fanatical about Soul music, 1970s cinema and boxing, it might be about one of those. Given that he also is very indecisive and non-committal it also might not be.