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Review – The Iron Lady

The latest screenplay from Abi Morgan, directed by Phyllida Lloyd, is a competent, sympathetic portrait of a lady descending into dementia after the loss of her husband, but as a Margaret Thatcher biopic it feels lightweight and far from complete. The key question here is, can you do Thatcher…

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Friday 27th January 2012

Review – Coriolanus

Adapting Shakespeare and making it work on screen is a difficult task, yet Ralph Fiennes’ directorial debut succeeds with an element of greatness. The tale focuses on the Roman general Caius Martius, a successful soldier who lacks a gentle touch when it comes to the plebeians. Following a…

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Wednesday 25th January 2012

DVD Review – Revenge: A Love Story

Revenge: A Love Story (2011, Wong Ching Po) The past decade has seen Japan and South Korea export a wave of sophisticated and outstanding cinema that has reinvigorated the ‘revenge’ genre. The Chaser, Oldboy and Confessions are a few that have managed to capture a complex yet engaging narrative,…

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Thursday 19th January 2012

DVD Review – Arrietty

Arrietty (2011, Hiromasa Yonebayashi) Studio Ghibli offers its own adaptation of Mary Norton’s novel ‘The Borrowers’ in Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s directorial debut Arrietty. Winning ‘Animation of the Year’ at the 34th Japan Academy Prize Awards, the animated picture follows 14-year-old Arrietty and her family who live under the floorboards…

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Thursday 19th January 2012

DVD Review – The Legend of Bruce Lee

The Legend of Bruce Lee (TV Series, 2008) A remarkably scoped television series, this epic Chinese biopic of martial arts legend Bruce Lee chronicles his life from childhood right up to his tragic, premature death. The Good Originally broadcast as a 50-episode television series in China on CCTV…

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Saturday 14th January 2012

Review – War Horse

Adapted from the prolific play of the same name (which is itself adapted from Michael Morpurgo’s much loved book), Steven Spielberg’s World War One epic gallops out of the blocks but tails off dramatically in the second half. Ye Olde England. The year is nineteen-o-something. A quaint, rural…

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Thursday 12th January 2012

Review – Shame

Michael Fassbender and Steve McQueen team up for the first time since Hunger to produce a stark, bleak and thoroughly brilliant portrait of sex addiction. McQueen is first and foremost an artist. Throughout his career he has produced numerous award-winning shorts, culminating in him scooping the illustrious Turner…

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Sunday 8th January 2012

Review – The Artist

What can I say about The Artist that hasn’t already been said? I’ve been constantly spouting plaudits since I first saw it at London Film Festival last year, and I’m swiftly running out of superlatives. This is cinema at its most illuminating – charming, clever, magical, it will…

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Saturday 7th January 2012

Review – Margaret

After originally being scheduled for a 2007 release, Kenneth Lonergan’s follow-up to You Can Count on Me has at long last made it into our cinemas, with Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker overseeing the final edit. The film follows Lisa Cohen (Anna Paquin), a disgruntled and troubled adolescent who projects her personal problems onto…

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Wednesday 4th January 2012

Frozen in Controversy

This winter millions of people tuned into the BBC’s latest nature documentary Frozen Planet, expecting to be taken to a world beyond their own reality, a world that only a mere handful get to see firsthand. Audiences were dazzled with images of a land of snow, polar bears,…

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