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Lovely Molly is an outstanding new horror film from Eduardo Sánchez, the co-director of The Blair Witch Project. He is widely regarded as the man who invented, or at least helped champion, the found-footage horror movie, and his latest chiller is an exceptional marriage of third-person and first-person narrative filmmaking. The film is probably best […]
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I shall save my full thoughts on the film Frankenweenie for my general review. This feature shall be devoted to a description of the press conference for the film and the behind the scenes animation masterclass presentation on the day of Frankenweenie’s Gala premiere at the BFI London Film Festival. After the press screening of […]
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Tim Burton’s return to stop motion animation is a terrific success. I am overjoyed to say that Frankenweenie is an endearing, beautifully made, genuinely intelligent little film that will charm both children and adults. It’s made with such love and care and dedication to detail, watching it is like falling into a wondrous and macabre, […]
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Pusher started life as a Danish thriller directed by Nicholas Winding Refn. It then became a trilogy, was remade in Britain in 2010 as a Hindi language movie, and has now been remade once again, this time in English. It’s directed by Spanish filmmaker Luis Prieto, and relocates the drug-dealing and violent confrontations to the […]
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Everyone (well, very nearly everyone) loves Christmas and Disney, so we thought the perfect way to launch a new series of film competitions for The Edge would be to team up with The Walt Disney Company and offer a DVD of Avengers Assemble and a PS3 game of Disney/Pixar’s Brave as a prize for one […]
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The Mist starts off as a routine horror flick, with deliberately-B movie style monsters, blood and screaming people running madly about. And, to be fair, it doesn’t pretend to be anything else at first. But as the film goes on, the viewer discovers that this powerful fantasy disaster from Frank Darabont, adapted from a novella […]
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I wouldn’t be a good companion for a Kerouac-esque road trip. Instead of enjoying the promiscuity, the late-40s drugs scene, the fast driving, the extreme weather and the various other delights that came across our path, I would be forever finding fault with everything. Sex?! With EVERYONE?! Are you mad?? Do you want to get […]
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This is a very different film to the other Dracula title selected as part of the 100 Discs of Christmas last month. That one was made by Hammer. This, however, is a Universal horror film. In the 30s, Universal was a pioneer in the horror genre, making scares a legitimate mainstream form of entertainment. Their […]
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2008’s Taken wasn’t very good. It was enjoyable on an isn’t-this-shit-but-who-cares level, but it was poorly written and the plot would collapse under any degree of scrutiny. The sequel is worse. Whereas Taken was mildly enjoyable, Taken 2 is irritating, preposterous and the script sounds as if it’s been written by a bunch of twelve […]
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Anonymous tells a ‘what if?’ story about Shakespeare. Apparently he didn’t write his plays. They were authored by the Earl of Oxford (Rhys Ifans), and Shakespeare (Rafe Spall) was actually a stupid promiscuous and gullible idiot who was paid to put his name to them. The plays and poems were then all proof-read and edited […]
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In my opinion, The Village is one of the most beautiful films of recent times. It was tragically misunderstood on its release, which earned it a reputation of being a disappointment and not scary enough. My advice to new viewers would be to treat it like a love story, not a horror movie. Bryce Dallas […]
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New animated feature Frankenweenie hits cinema next week with The Edge ready to get behind the scenes.
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John Patrick Shanley brings his award-winning stage show Doubt to the big screen with brilliant effect in this fine film adaptation. Meryl Streep is terrifically brittle in the role of nun Sister Aloysius, who accuses the school priest of sexually abusing an altar boy. But she hasn’t any proof to back up her accusation (apart from the uncertain musings […]
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Good viewing doesn’t always mean happy viewing, and this is something to bear in mind when watching Longford (2006), an underrated masterpiece directed by Tom Hooper and written by Peter Morgan. Hooper, of course, went on to win an Oscar for his film The King’s Speech, and Morgan is famous for writing various successes such […]