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Film Review: The Great Gatsby

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The director of Moulin Rouge and Romeo & Juliet, Baz Luhrmann, brings us a sleek looking adaptation of a F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel. The narrative is framed within the memories of Nick Carraway; a failed writer from the mid-west of America, who moves to New York in the 1920’s – to pursue a career [...]

Film Review: Spring Breakers

Film Review: Spring Breakers

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  Gummo director Harmony Korine brings us a stylish thriller full of nudity and inebriation in his latest film Springbreakers. Faith (Selena Gomez), Brit (Ashley Benson), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens) and Cotty (Rachael Korine) are four university students in search of an escape from their mundane life on campus. They see…

Film Review: Trance

Film Review: Trance

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  From the brains behind the Olympic opening ceremony last summer comes an intriguing psychological thriller with enough mind boggling twists and turns to leave you exiting the cinema in a bit of a trance yourself. Danny Boyle returns to familiar ground with a film that begins with an audacious…

Film Review: Reincarnated

Film Review: Reincarnated

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Editor of Vice magazine Andy Capper makes his directorial debut with a documentary that recounts Hip Hop legend, Snoop Dogg’s journey from renouncing the violence filled music that made him famous, to making peaceful reggae music and his conversion to the Rastafarian religion.  The documentary does partly explore his motivations…

Film Review: Welcome to the Punch

Film Review: Welcome to the Punch

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From Writer/Director Eran Creevy, better known for his 2008 crime drama Shifty, comes a slick looking British thriller in the form of Welcome to the Punch. When ex-con Jacob Sternwood (Strong) returns to London from his hideout in the Icelandic wilderness, due to his son being involved in a heist…

Film Review: Side Effects

Film Review: Side Effects

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    In what’s rumored to be Steven Soderbergh final film comes a physiological thriller that’s twists and turns constantly and may have you leaving the cinema with a bit of a headache.  First coming to the attention of the filmmaking community with his Palme d’Or wining film Sex, Lies…

Film Review: Stoker

Film Review: Stoker

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Visionary South Korean director,  Chan-Wook Park – famed for his 2003 film Oldboy, takes his debut plunge into the English speaking pool with a tale of grotesque sexual fantasy and morbid carnage adapted from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 suburban nightmare, Shadow of Doubt. After the death of her beloved father, the…

Film Review: Hitchcock

Film Review: Hitchcock

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This film is unlike what you expect from a biopic, there is no abstruse birth, no arduous childhood, no majestic rise to fame and no deplorable death, although there is what falls between the latter two, the potential downfall. Hitchcock focuses on the time in the Master’s life in which…

Film Review: Django Unchained

Film Review: Django Unchained

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  Arguable the coolest of directors, Quentin Tarantino, bring us another bloody offering in his self-proclaimed ‘southern’  Django Unchained. A tale of revenge and deceit for a slave turned bounty hunter, set upon the dusty plains of Southern U.S.A 1858. We open with shots of the glorious Texan wilderness being…

Film Review: Taken 2

Film Review: Taken 2

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  When the making of this film came to my attention, I first queried would the same basic idea work again? And more importantly is this guy really that unlucky? The past has seen some fantastic sequels like The Godfather 2 and The Empire Strike’s Back which have really been…

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