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  • The Killer Inside Me – Review

    The Killer Inside Me – Review

    27th July 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    A great deal has been made of the unrestrained violence in Michael Winterbottom’s languid, dusky pulp thriller The Killer Inside Me, the English director’s bold adaption of Jim Thompson’s 1952 crime novel of the same name. And with very good reason: its ferocity is shocking.

    Throughout, brutality and sadism are churning just below the surface, threatening to shatter the eerie calm, to twist the affability and easy-going climate of its small...

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  • Nine

    Nine

    5th January 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    First a confession. I dislike musicals. No, that’s untrue. I loathe musicals. I loathe them in much the same way that I loathe Ryanair baggage charges. Or root canal surgery. Or the post-pub, Cro-magnon wank-a-thon, Danny Dyer's Hardest Men. I just cannot see the appeal. All that breathy over enunciation. The razzle. Yeah! The dazzle. Yeah! YEAH! The big, lungy singing and the high kicking and the weary and ultimately...

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  • Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon: Disturbing, mesmerising and wonderful

    Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon: Disturbing, mesmerising and wonderful

    30th November 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this

    Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon is the latest film from a ferociously gifted and no less provocative filmmaker at the very height of his considerable powers. Troubling, beautiful, unerringly calm yet intensely confrontational it is a film of such towering authority and icy detachment that it might go down as one of the most commanding by any director from the last decade. I have certainly seen nothing like it for...

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  • Review: Broken Embraces – Cruz stars but Almodovar shines

    Review: Broken Embraces – Cruz stars but Almodovar shines

    25th September 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree


    I have arrived late to Almodovar’s Broken Embraces but it was worth the wait…I think. Like so many of the Spanish auteur’s films his latest is a hyper-stylised, luxuriant and lavish affair, dripping in sensuality, and if you reach the end with a slight feeling of heady drunkenness it is only because you have been so thoroughly seduced by the extravagance of it all.  It’s rather like Christmas lunch. Delicious...

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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.