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| "Magnolia" man Paul ..., A lost Eskimo boy is..., A ludicrous, A pleasant, a unique legend, and completely off-t..., AS Byatt's Booker Pr..., Aussie TV star Steve..., black comedy., British remake of Ro..., Bruce Lee, Bryan Singer rounds ..., Carroll Ballard dire..., Chuck Barris., Classic mock-documen..., despite the presence..., Flawed but ambitious..., George Clooney's dir..., If you yearn for mor..., in his finest perfor..., Jeff bridges plays a..., looking at the probl..., Maverick Canadian di..., Meg Ryan fails to pa..., nightmarish, One of the seminal f..., Perceptive and touch..., pointless trawl thro..., Set in Australia dur..., stirring romantic co..., supposedly a comment..., The courageous colli..., The geek shall inher..., The Spinal Tap team ..., This 1951 film is by..., this time recalling ..., Twisted auteur John ..., with Vinnie Jones fo..., would-be provocative... |
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| Adrian Hennigan, Almar Haflidason, Ben Falk, Jamie Russell, Jason Best, Martyn Glanville, Michael Thomson, Neil Smith, Nev Pierce, Nick Cramp, Simon Wardell, Stella Papamichael, Tom Dawson |
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| Reviews |
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| A Mighty Wind (2003), Blue Velvet (1986), Boogie Nights (1997), Cecil B. Demented (2..., Confessions d'un hom..., Duma (2005), Ikíngut (2001), John Carpenter's Ass..., La Spagnola (2001), Lassie (2005), Mean Machine (2001), Napoleon Dynamite (2..., Pauline en Paulette ..., Possession (2002), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Salo, or The 120 Day..., Scrooge (1951), Silver City (2004), The Crocodile Hunter..., The Door in the Floo..., The Iron Hand (1972), The Promoter (2004), The Saddest Music in..., This is Spinal Tap®:..., X² (2003) |
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| 2 -below average, 3 -average, 4 -good, 5 -excellent |
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| 2000-10-09T00:00:00, 2000-10-17T00:00:00, 2000-12-05T00:00:00, 2001-03-20T00:00:00, 2001-06-22T00:00:00, 2001-07-05T00:00:00, 2001-12-13T00:00:00, 2001-12-28T00:00:00, 2002-03-18T00:00:00, 2002-04-05T00:00:00, 2002-07-24T00:00:00, 2002-08-04T00:00:00, 2002-10-20T00:00:00, 2003-02-03T00:00:00, 2003-03-16T00:00:00, 2003-05-01T00:00:00, 2004-01-13T00:00:00, 2004-05-04T00:00:00, 2004-05-11T00:00:00, 2004-12-23T00:00:00, 2005-02-05T00:00:00, 2005-05-23T00:00:00, 2005-07-19T00:00:00, 2005-12-14T00:00:00 |
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| BBC |
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| Movie Review |
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| Review: Confessions d'un homme dangereux (2002) |
| Doubt fuels George Clooney's directorial debut. Can he cut it behind the camera? Is show business of any worth? Is TV innovator Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell) really a CIA assassin on the side? Barris is the real-life creator of US shows The Dating ... |
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| Review: Ikíngut (2001) |
| He's four foot high, covered in fur, and he speaks in a strange language. Could he be a demon or is he, as one of the villagers suggests, a flying polar bear? As we quickly realize, this furry little bundle isn't some hellish offspring but a lost ... |
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| Review: Mean Machine (2001) |
| If Hollywood gave an Oscar for barefaced cheek, first-time director Barry Skolnick would beat allcomers. Not only does he remake Robert Aldrich's classic American prison film " The Mean Machine " (aka "The Longest Yard") as a British comedy, but he ... |
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| Review: Napoleon Dynamite (2004) |
| If David Lynch decided to ditch the dwarves and make an American high school comedy, the result might be something like Napoleon Dynamite. Debut director Jared Hess' wonderfully offbeat movie revels in its own kookiness and is the most engaging teen ... |
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| Review: This is Spinal Tap®: A Rockumentary by Martin Di Bergi (1984) |
| First of all, let's just clarify something: "This Is Spinal Tap" is the funniest film ever made. So it's a welcome return to the big screen for David St Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls 16 years after their first visit. For those who don't ... |
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| Review: Lassie (2005) |
| Lassie, the courageous collie with the heart of a lion and the navigational instincts of a homing pigeon, really does come home in Charles Sturridge's cosy family adventure, which brings the legendary mutt back across the Atlantic to the British ... |
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| Review: The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002) |
| Rowdy Aussie naturalist Steve Irwin was always a big character on a small screen. Now his encounters with poisonous snakes and bouts of crocodile wrestling on a host of successful TV series have got him into the movies. Any doubts about his acting ... |
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| Review: Boogie Nights (1997) |
| Question: When is a Martin Scorsese film not a Martin Scorsese film? Answer: When it's a Paul Thomas Anderson film. And that's the trouble with Anderson's "Boogie Nights", an ambitious exploration of the American porno film industry. Its elaborate ... |
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| Review: Blue Velvet (1986) |
| "Blue Velvet" opens with a colourful picture postcard vision of small town America, set to the strains of the eponymous song. It seems so safe, so welcoming. Yet, by the time Lynch replays this sequence at the end of the film, we know that ... |
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| Review: Duma (2005) |
| Coming of age, the battle for survival, and a couple of furry, four-legged sidekicks make Duma classic family viewing. Pint-sized newcomer Alex Michaeletos turns in a beautifully understated performance as Xan, a troubled boy who goes AWOL with his ... |
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| Review: The Saddest Music in the World (2003) |
| Ripping up today's movie-making conventions, cult Canadian director Guy Maddin raids cinema's often forgotten past to conjure up deliriously eccentric offering The Saddest Music In The World. Shot entirely in a studio, it's the tale of a musical ... |
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| Review: The Promoter (2004) |
| Meg Ryan doesn't deliver the knockout performance you'd hope for in Against The Ropes. Indeed her turn as feisty boxing manager Jackie Kallen is in keeping with a film that's fun for a while, but irredeemably lightweight. Making his big screen ... |
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| Review: A Mighty Wind (2003) |
| A Mighty Wind is a joke stretched too far and too thin, from the team behind essential 'rockumentary' This Is Spinal Tap and much-praised Best In Show . An improvisational comedy which carries the germ of a good idea, it hinges on a memorial concert ... |
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| Review: John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) |
| When he's on form, John Carpenter is one of the few directors who can inspire real fear in his audience. Forget aimless nonsense like "The Blair Witch Project" and submit to stripped-down terror - naked, raw, without rules, and directed with ... |
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| Review: Scrooge (1951) |
| Dickens' work often lends itself well to the screen and this is no exception. 'The sentimental romance' as he called it displays his characteristic toughness. The original dialogue, in particular, translates effortlessly. The story concerns Ebenezer ... |
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| Review: Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975) |
| Given that juggernaut American films continue to dominate the world's screens, so squeezing out more specialist fare, it is perfectly understandable why small distributors shy away from new films by unknown directors, relying instead on known ... |
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| Review: Silver City (2004) |
| There's an air of resignation to this polite political drama that is depressing. That's not to say there isn't much to enjoy in the tale of an apparently idiotic would-be governor (Chris Cooper) rising to power on the back of big business. It's just ... |
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| Review: The Door in the Floor (2004) |
| A dazzling tragi-comedy that delivers both laughs and tears, The Door In The Floor stars Jeff Bridges as Ted Cole, a frazzled writer of children's stories whose marriage to wife Marion (Kim Basinger) is torn apart after the death of their sons in a ... |
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| Review: La Spagnola (2001) |
| A black comedy drama about a tempestuous mother-daughter relationship, "La Spagnola" opens, appropriately enough, with a dust storm. It is 1960, the setting is an isolated house beside an oil refinery in a small Australian town, and fiery Spanish ... |
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| Review: The Iron Hand (1972) |
| Bruce Lee might have a faithful and ever-growing fan base, but reviews of his films often veer between amateurish fanatical sycophancy to professional, ignorant disdain. Awful video releases of dirty prints with ludicrous dubbing of clumsily ... |
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| Review: Possession (2002) |
| Academic detective work is hardly the subject matter for a gripping movie. Scrabbling around in libraries, reading through dusty old manuscripts, and dealing with university politics may work well on the printed page, but it's not exactly going to ... |
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| Review: Punch-Drunk Love (2002) |
| Bedfellows don't come much more unlikely than Paul Thomas Anderson and Adam Sandler. One, a precocious writer-director whose probing of the human condition produced the masterpiece "Magnolia". The other a critically reviled slapstick star who spends ... |
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| Review: Pauline en Paulette (2001) |
| A touching, small-scale story of family responsibility and care in the community, Belgian director Lieven Debrauwer's comedy drama comes across as a middle-aged female riposte to " Rain Man ". The mentally challenged Pauline (Van Der Groen) lives ... |
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| Review: Cecil B. Demented (2000) |
| Okay, so they make their living out of movies, but some directors just can't seem to stop taking the mickey out of the industry that puts food on their table. Of course, John Waters has more reason than most film-makers to satirise Hollywood. After ... |
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| Review: X² (2003) |
| Another day, another comic book movie. Given the commercial success of " X-Men ", it was as certain as the sky that Marvel's gaggle of genetically mutated superheroes would be back for seconds . Part one, in fact, was less a movie than a marketing ... |
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