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  • Pompeii

    Movie Review | Ali Gray | 23rd April 2014

    "But every Paul WS Anderson movie is a disaster movie!" I hear you cry. How very droll. Pompeii is indeed the first movie by director Anderson that's supposed to be a catastrophe - a further step away from sci-fi trash towards period drama following 2011's re-stab at The Three Musketeers. Titanic is the obvious template (love across a class divide against a backdrop of massive loss of human life), but Pompeii has more in common with your BBC1 Saturday afternoon adventure mini-series: it's a curiously bloodless affair, with pretty faces, mild peril, swords, sandals and really rather fetching costumes. Look at that image above and tell me you can't imagine the continuity guy announcing that the next thrilling episode of Pompeii is coming up after Final Score with Gabby and Garth. This is basically my way of telling you that it isn't very good.

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  • Disturbia

    Movie Review | Ali | 12th September 2007

    Only the foolhardy dare mess with the works of Alfred Hitchcock - just ask Gus Vant Sant. His pointless, shot-for-shot remake of Psycho in 1998 not only reinforced the argument that Hollywood was running low on ideas, but it showed you can't hope to emulate a true master of the genre. Just like you wouldn't ask a monkey to paint...

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  • Snow Cake

    Movie Review | Ali | 8th September 2006

    Never let it be said I don't have a sensitive side: listing all of the films I've cried at would put a rather heavy strain on the internet's resources and in all probability exceed my bandwidth limitation for the month. The point is, I like my tender moments as much as I like my asteroid movies and although I draw the line at s...

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