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Review: La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty)
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This remains to be one of my favourite idioms of all time. The beauty of art is very rarely...
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Feb 5, 20143 min read


Review: Le Passé (The Past)
In 2011, I was introduced to Asghar Farhadi’s superb film A Separation and his unique “everything that can go wrong, will go wrong”...
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Jan 31, 20145 min read


Review: Devil’s Knot
There are very few instances in this world where the reality of the matter is more interesting than any form of fiction. Such is the case...
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Jan 25, 20144 min read


Review: I, Frankenstein
I can just imagine what the pitch meeting for I, Frankenstein was like…It was probably a lot like, if not identical to, the pitch about a...
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Jan 24, 20144 min read


Review–Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
January is my least favourite month for new movies. By this time of year, Hollywood studios are focusing much of their attention on the...
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Jan 17, 20144 min read


Review: Lone Survivor
The war film genre is one where the sensationalisation of the gains and losses on the battlefield and highly fictionalized moments...
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Jan 10, 20144 min read


Review: Inside Llewyn Davis
The essence of any character piece, especially one like this, is that for a short period of time (in this case, an hour and forty-five...
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Dec 25, 20135 min read


Review: 47 Ronin
Keanu Reeves may not be the best actor working today. His monotone delivery is one that is easily recognized and yet constantly...
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Dec 25, 20134 min read


Review: her
From the moment the screen fills with light, and we come face-to-face with Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), his eyes are desolate...
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Dec 25, 20137 min read


Review: American Hustle
The heist film genre is one of the most exciting film genres in recent memory, thanks to the likes of elaborate minds and stylistically...
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Dec 25, 20135 min read


Review: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
One of the very fortunate aspects of the film form, aside from affective story-telling techniques, is the value of its aesthetic beauty....
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Dec 25, 20134 min read


Review: Saving Mr. Banks
The fact that I have never seen Mary Poppins should not compromise the extent of happiness that I experienced as a youngster. Yes, it may...
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Dec 20, 20135 min read


Review: Short Term 12
It isn’t uncommon that after I leave a deeply affecting, emotional roller-coaster of a film that I am left speechless. Contrary to its...
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Nov 29, 20135 min read


Review: The Book Thief
There are movies that can be put in a category appropriately labelled ‘Oscar bait’; and if there is one film that exemplifies that best...
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Nov 29, 20133 min read


Review: Nebraska
The question at the surface of Alexander Payne’s newest feature is; what would you do with a million dollars? Although the very fabric...
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Nov 29, 20134 min read


Review: Blue is the Warmest Colour
As Adele (Adèle Exarchopoulos) crosses Place Richebé in Lille, France, on what appears to be a seamlessly mundane day, and gazes upon the...
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Nov 15, 20137 min read


Review: Kill Your Darlings
It’s no surprise that some of the most effective works of the Beatnik generation were born in the scuzzy halls of jazz bars; soaked with...
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Nov 15, 20133 min read


Review: Dallas Buyers Club
Since before the start of the new millennium until just after 2010, Matthew McConaughey ‘s body of work was just that, a body that worked...
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Nov 8, 20134 min read


Review: All Is Lost
As Our Man ( Robert Redford ) narrates the only monologue throughout a practically dialogue-free film, as the deck floods and the water...
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Nov 1, 20133 min read


Review: About Time
If you were able to travel back in time to the past events of your life, what exactly would you change? In Richard Curtis‘ new...
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Nov 1, 20134 min read
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