In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Kenneth Branagh’s scattershot energy and flagrantly romantic flare tends to work best when least expected and on the strictest of ...
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Stardust (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Although encumbered with the familiar banes of the large-budget fantasy film, big bland special effects and a clunky climax on ...
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Freedom and Fate in George Lucas’s THX 1138 and Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report
An edited version of an academic essay I wrote in 2009, looking at common generic concerns. George Lucas and Steven ...
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To Live and Die in LA (1986) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. William Friedkin’s attempt to get his French Connection mojo working again in the era of Miami Vice is a ...
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The Science of Sleep (La Science de Reves, 2006) Movie Review & Filmsummary, Cast
..Lapped up by hipster critics, Michel Gondry’s second film strikes me as a shapeless, occasionally dazzling, often tiresome piece of ...
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Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Los amantes del Círculo Polar, 1998)
.. Director Julio Medem’s epic of cyclical conceptualism isn’t an entirely satisfying concoction, building to a curiously unmoving anti-climax, but ...
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Transsiberian (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. .Brad Anderson, like James Grey, has the finesse for mood and character of an art-house director, but enjoys working ...
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We Own The Night (2007) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
James Gray probably won’t make a great film until he hires a scriptwriter. His over-fondness for contrived plotting and quoting ...
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One From The Heart (1982) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
A super-stylised neo-musical directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Frederic Forrest, and with a score by Tom Waits. Okay, I ...
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