Stand By Me is one of those films I’ve somehow not got round to seeing until now, when it’s been projected onto the big screen for its 40th Anniversary, and what a spellbinding experience! At …
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Stand By Me is one of those films I’ve somehow not got round to seeing until now, when it’s been projected onto the big screen for its 40th Anniversary, and what a spellbinding experience! At …
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Utopia 2020 is the American remake of British drama Utopia, which had an excellent – and surprisingly violent – first series, but then threw out any semblance of plot for the second series. By the …
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Being John Malkovich: Even 20 years on, it’s hard to find a film that’s more bizarre in the entire history of the movies. Craig Schwartz (John Cusack, who had previously starred alongside the titular actor …
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Sixteen Candles is one of those John Hughes ’80s comedies I saw at the time, but haven’t seen in a long time, and I never knew there was an extended version before this disc was …
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Distorted is one of those films with lots of weird stuff going on to the point where as soon as the film begins, Lauren (Christina Ricci) is a gibbering wreck for reasons not yet explained, …
Continue readingArsenal is nothing to do with the football team, comprising of men kicking a bag of wind about, this relates to an arsenal of weaponry. Nicolas Cage and John Cusack team up again for the …
Continue readingCell is what Americans call a mobile phone (also see the 2004 Kim Basinger/Chris Evans thriller Cellular, although, rather, don’t). A strange signal pulsates through all mobile (cell) phone networks worldwide, and starts a murderous …
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Love and Mercy has a situation I don’t ever remember coming across before – a biopic with two actors playing the same person across a period of time. Before watching this, I thought it would …
Continue readingDragon Blade is a forthcoming samurai-based sword-fighting epic due out later this year. A massive success this year in its native China, Dragon Blade brings action spectacle on a grand scale. Featuring an international cast …
Continue readingLove and Mercy begins in the 1960s, as Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson (Paul Dano) struggles with emerging psychosis as he attempts to craft his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 1980s, as portrayed by John …
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