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Valkyrie
Movie Review | Ali | 24th January 2009
As weird as it may sound, the Nazis have become pantomime villains in recent years. This is not down to a lack of respect - after all, the way to rob an organisation of its power is to remove its credibility and Lord knows there's enough holocaust films to remind us of the Horrors Of What Really Happened. But all those B-movies ...
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The Wrestler
Movie Review | Ali | 21st January 2009
It's easy to laugh at Mickey Rourke. He's a has-been; a dog fancier; an actor reduced to the stakes of a bum. After a well-publicised career meltdown, an ill-advised return to boxing left him with, in the words of Charlie Brooker, "a face like wet cat food." He is, in short, a joke. Yes, it's easy to laugh at Mickey Rourke. But ...
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Defiance
Movie Review | Kirsty | 12th January 2009
The story of the Bielski brothers and their resistance movement is not a famous one and isn't taught in GCSE history like Oskar Schindler's, despite the fact that they were responsible for the survival and protection of a similar number of Jews during WWII. Defiance, co-written and directed by Oscar-winner Edward Zwick, is the f...
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Slumdog Millionaire
Movie Review | Ali | 7th January 2009
Despite Chris Tarrant's stupid face, there's no denying that Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is an ingenious concept for a game show. Resist flipping channels for just a few minutes and before you know it, you're yelling furiously at your TV because a man from Surrey doesn't know the capital of Venezuela or punching the air with j...
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Twilight
Movie Review | Anna | 23rd December 2008
A cynic may read Twilight as a piece of conservative, middle-American propaganda worthy of Joseph Goebbels. It's a shot of abstinence into the pulsating veins of every randy teenager that crosses the cinema threshold. There are the Freudian implications about the exchange of bodily fluids for a start. Twilight practically scream...
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W.
Movie Review | Anna | 11th November 2008
The cultural legacy of the Bush administration is one of opposition and subversion; from the songs of the Dixie Chicks, to the films of Michael Moore, to the literature of Ian McEwan. If Oliver Stone was hoping to earn his place in the canon of Bush-bashing, he's missed the mark with W. What the film does do is help us understan...
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Brideshead Revisited
Movie Review | Anna | 6th October 2008
And so, Brideshead has once again been revisited. The tale of crumbling aristocracy, Catholic fanaticism and a magnificently dysfunctional family in the days before everyone was trotting off to therapy. Charles Ryder (Goode), "a painter from Paddington", is mesmerised by charismatic Sebastian Flyte (Whishaw) when th...
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Righteous Kill
Movie Review | Ali | 5th October 2008
"Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets." Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver, 1976. Thirty odd years later and Robert De Niro has finally taken those words to heed in Righteous Kill, playing a crooked cop dishing out street justice to evil-doers alongside fellow crusader Al Pacino in a match-up that's had f...
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The Wackness
Movie Review | Anna | 2nd September 2008
The trailer for The Wackness conveys an impression of some god-awful, coming-of-age, too-cool-for-school, stoner-slacker NYC nonsense, nor is it helped by the worst title of the year. But wait.... is that.... Ben Kingsley? What the hell is Sir Ben doing in this film? Has he lost it? Was he duped into a cameo? Fortunately first i...
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The X Files: I Want To Believe
Movie Review | Ali | 2nd August 2008
Aliens. Victor Tooms. Government cover-ups and black goo. That fish-faced sewer mutant thing. All reasons to tune in to The X Files TV show every week, and all conspicuous by their absence in this disappointing second big-screen X Files outing. For Mulder and Scully's movie reunion, the story is more in line with the singular 'm...
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