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17.05.2012

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Read me my last rites

Any film about exorcism will always be compared to William Friedkin’s unintentionally hilarious 1973 classic The Exorcist but Mikael Håfström’s attempt to circumnavigate any comparisons with the latter in his ...
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  • Tuesday March 1, 2011

The King’s Speech triumphs

It’s always a joy when one film doesn’t clean up all the statuettes at The Oscars and this year was one of the most balanced distribution of gongs in recent ...
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  • Monday February 28, 2011

The impact of corporate greed in The Company Men

For a white-collar worker earning a six-figure salary, the priorities are golf, his Porsche, his nice house, providing for his family and of course, keeping his job. But, during the ...
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  • Monday February 28, 2011

A Sci-Fi-Brom-Com

They always said they wanted to do a trilogy of genres.  First there was Shaun of the Dead (Rom-Zom-Com) then came Hot Fuzz (Thrill-Com) and now we have Paul (Sci-Fi-Brom-Com).  ...
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  • Sunday February 27, 2011

And the winner is... The Last Airbender!

Los Angeles this weekend was buzzing even more than usual with the awards ceremony seeing the great minds behind Sex and the City 2 and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last ...
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Beat the Bush Administration

Here is what happened: the United States government decided to invade Iraq for possessing dangerous weapons supplied by the African nation of Niger. An American international consultant was asked to ...
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  • Thursday February 24, 2011

Classic Cinema: Casablanca

Casablanca, a black and white timeless masterpiece, was released in 1943. The script for the unstaged play on which the film is based fatefully found its way to the desk ...
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  • Thursday February 24, 2011

Bicycle Thieves

A man searching for his bike hardly sounds like a great plot for one of the most beloved films of all time, but Vittorio De Sica's 1948 masterpiece is a ...
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  • Thursday February 17, 2011

Can the BAFTAs be a good prediction for the Oscars?

Despite the rain on February 13th, Leicester Square was once again a buzzing night of flashbulbs and red carpet walks as it played host to the 63rd annual BAFTA awards. ...
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‘Down Under’ six feet of earth

Animal Kingdom   “You’ve done some bad things, haven’t you sweetie?” gently reminds the matriarch of the Melbourne-based Cody crime family. It’s a moment of true wonder, as Janine “Smurf” Cody (Weaver) ...
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  • Thursday February 17, 2011