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2011 – That was the year that was

2011 – That was the year that was
In an attempt to provide an even better overview of the preceding 12 months than I did last year I have enlisted the help of a website that lists every single UK cinema release by date and have tried to check any releases that were moved around or failed to appear. This is an attempt [...]
December 29th, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

The Descendants (2011)

The Descendants (2011)
The other George Clooney film at this year’s London Film Festival is Alexander Payne’s fifth feature film The Descendants. It has been seven years since his last feature film Sideways and so there was a lot of anticipation for this. Clooney plays Matt King a wealthy yet frugal lawyer living in Hawaii...
October 25th, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life (2011)

Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life (2011)
For anyone that enjoyed Herzog’s last documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, the title of his latest venture will come as no surprise. Abyss is a word Herzog relishes in using and it is a good word to associate with his plethora of work which habitually explores the mysterious abyss, both physical and...
October 23rd, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Corpo Celeste (2011)

Corpo Celeste (2011)
Marta (Yle Vianello) is a thirteen year old girl who has just moved back to Southern Italy with her mum and older sister, they were previously living in Switzerland. In an attempt to help Marta integrate with her peers and make friends her mother makes her join a youth catechism group. In the lead up...
October 23rd, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Ides of March (2011)

The Ides of March (2011)
Ryan Gosling plays Stephen Myers, a young ambitious campaign press spokesman for the Democratic candidate Governor Morris (George Clooney). The film is set in Ohio in the days leading up to the US presidential primary. Philip Seymour Hoffman is the older and wiser campaign manager Paul Zara who sees...
October 23rd, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Bernie (2011)

Bernie (2011)
Bernie Tiede (Jack Black) is an assistant funeral director in small town Carthage, Texas. He is loved by the community and gets along particularly well with the elderly widows he seeks out to console after going the extra mile with their late husbands’ services. Bernie is an overly nice do-gooder who...
October 22nd, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2010)

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2010)
Don’t let the title and the category of this film fool you, this is not an experimental film. It is in fact a very traditional documentary about experimental film. I was actually rather surprised at how traditionally filmmaker Pip Chodorov chose to make this documentary and it works extremely well....
October 22nd, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Two Years at Sea (2011)

Two Years at Sea (2011)
With the use of 16mm cameras director Ben Rivers shows us the mundane life of outsider Jake Williams. Jake is a hermit who lives somewhere in Aberdeenshire in the middle of nowhere, he has a sprawling ram shackled cottage and a caravan and spends his time living off the land and sleeping. We see Jake’s...
October 21st, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Wild Bill (2011)

Wild Bill (2011)
British actor Dexter Fletcher makes his debut as director with the typically British Wild Bill. The film focuses on Bill Hayward (Charlie Creed-Miles) who has been in prison for eight years due to his ‘wild’ ways. Bill has been released from prison and seems to want to put his previous life...
October 21st, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Natural Selection (2011)

Natural Selection (2011)
Linda (Rachael Harris) is a forty something good wholesome Christian woman married to Abe (John Diehl), a man who believes the only reason to have intimate relations with his wife is in order to procreate. As Linda has been diagnosed as barren the couple do not do the deed leaving Linda extremely frustrated,...
October 20th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More
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