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The Crab (2010)

The Crab (2010)
This is the story of Levi, an angry young man afflicted with ectrodactyly (claw hands syndrome). With a sharp intellect, a fine helping of self-loathing and a way of sucking the happiness from everyone around him, Levi often finds that the best way for him to treat himself is by getting as drunk as possible...
June 23rd, 2010 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Terry Gilliam’s film is a visual feast, as wondrous and eclectic as its title suggests. It is a tale about a group of theatrical players who travel around the deep, dark corners of London. They transport their unsuspecting audiences through a mirror into the magical Imaginarium – a world where their...
June 22nd, 2010 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Kid (2010)

The Kid (2010)
Based on the autobiographies/memoirs of Kevin Lewis, this movie chronicles a life of an abuse victim. Abuse that comes from many different directions (including, in one way, from himself). It’s directed by Nick Moran (still best known to many for his cheekily charming Cockney wide boy act in Guy Ritchie’s...
June 22nd, 2010 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Rebound (2009)

The Rebound (2009)
Having sat through a number of more serious, “worthy” movies at this year’s EIFF I could tell that the knives were out for this film as soon as I sat down in my seat. The whispers around me of “I kind of need a bit of harmless pap after that last one” and “I’m not [...]
June 22nd, 2010 | Film Reviews | Read More

London To Brighton (2006)

London To Brighton (2006)
A prostitute and a young girl on the run, that’s the basic set-up here. But who exactly are they running from and why? Well, these two things are explained rather quickly for us before details are revealed that start to make the whole thing more intriguing, complex and a little bit different from...
June 21st, 2010 | Film Reviews | Read More

Lola aka Grandmother (2009)

Lola aka Grandmother (2009)
There’s no point in beating about the bush here. Watching a screening of Lola in a cinema brought me to the closest I have ever been to walking out on a movie in my entire life. It wasn’t shocking, taboo-breaking, traumatising or diametrically opposed to everything I believe in, it was just crushingly...
June 21st, 2010 | Film Reviews | Read More

Red Hill (2010)

Red Hill (2010)
Writer-director Patrick Hughes brings us this Australian thriller/Western that manages to impress with it’s style and moments of tension throughout. Ryan Kwanten (most familiar nowadays to fans of the excellent “True Blood”) stars as Constable Shane Cooper, a city boy trying to get by on his first...
June 21st, 2010 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Collector (2009)

The Collector (2009)
A horror movie directed by the man who wrote all three Feast movies and the parts IV, V and VI of the Saw franchise? If you’re already turning pale at the thought of the end result then you’re probably best avoiding this one but it’s actually a damn fine horror movie and one of the [...]
June 21st, 2010 | Film Reviews | Read More

Happy Times (2000)

Happy Times (2000)
A heartfelt comedy fused with a healthy dose of drama, Happy Times (Chinese title: Xingfu Shiguang) does a good job of mixing genres while it remains entertaining and touching at the same time. In an effort to win the hand of a ‘chunky’ woman (Lifan Dong), Zhao (Benshan Zhao) claims he runs...
June 21st, 2010 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Drag Me To Hell (2009)

Drag Me To Hell (2009)
Gross, hilarious, and sometimes terrifying, Sam Raimi, the mastermind behind the Evil Dead trilogy, is back with Drag Me To Hell, a horror/comedy that, while not as good as his Evil Dead trilogy, will make you glad he returned to the genre that gave him his cult following. Christine Brown (Alison...
June 21st, 2010 | Film Reviews | Read More
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