Benjamin Button: A Life Apart

Danny Boyle and David Fincher are both directors who have had their more successful moments when dealing with darker issues. Danny Boyle’s tales of murder, addiction and rampant viruses are among his most successful and effective films. David Fincher’s career  started with a sci-fi/horror effort as apart of one of the key franchises in the [...]

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Oscar Winners 2009

Want to read my take on the big Oscar winner? Click here for my review of Slumdog Millionaire. Also read about what I thought of the film that finally gave Kate Winslet an Oscar here in The Reader. There’s also my thoughts on Penelope Cruz’s award winner in Vicky Cristina Barcelona here Much more to [...]

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Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Logs and Specks

There’s been a fair amount of talk in recent times about the cruelty of contemporary comedy – that there’s a sense of sneering and reveling at and in the misfortune and weaknesses of others. That may or may not be the case – but what it highlights is just how difficult it can be to [...]

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Revolutionary Road – Faded Dreams

An old story goes that if you throw a frog (I’ve never worked out why you would, but bear with me) into a pan of boiling water, then it will jump straight back out. By contrast, if you place said unfortunate in a pan of cold water that’s slowly heated up from below, it won’t [...]

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