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Monthly Archives: January 2016

Cleopatra

January 29, 2016by Alex Chafey 5 Comments

Not to be confused with the TV series based on the 90s pop group of the same name, Cleopatra is historical epic featuring real life couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard […]

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I’ve Never Seen… The Sound of Music

January 28, 2016by Alex Chafey 4 Comments

How have I gone 24 years without seeing The Sound of Music, the film that trounced Gone With the Wind‘s box office record? It’s a particular marvel since I realised […]

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The Big Short

January 27, 2016by Dan Meier 3 Comments

From the director of Anchorman comes this Oscernated comedy/drama about the 2008 financial crisis. Let’s call it Bankerman. The Big Short is executed with all the subtlety and characterisation you […]

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Blade: Trinity

January 26, 2016by Dan Meier 2 Comments

In David S. Goyer’s Blade: Trinity, Wesley Snipes is back to bother more vampires and second-hand DVD stores. Apparently Snipes went crazy on the set of this 2004 action threequel, […]

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Scanners

January 25, 2016by Dan Meier Leave a comment

David Cronenberg, the Canadian King of Venereal Horror, writes and directs Scanners – a sci-fi/horror film about individuals with telekinetic powers, weaponised by the ConSec corporation. Let’s call it The Canadian Candidate. Released in […]

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Brooklyn

January 23, 2016by Dan Meier 2 Comments

This is not a biopic about Brooklyn Beckham, but a drama about a young Irish woman moving to America in the early 1950s. Brooklyn is a lovely film, and quite traditional in terms […]

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Ben-Hur

January 21, 2016by Alex Chafey 5 Comments

In this remake of the 1925 classic, Charlton Heston plays Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish Prince who’s screwed over by his childhood friend (and former lover?), the Roman Sextus (André Morell). […]

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Monkey Business

January 20, 2016by Alex Chafey Leave a comment

This is a film about a brilliant scientist working on a cure for ageing, that he is testing on chimps in his lab. So it’s basically the plot of Rise […]

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Big Trouble in Little China

January 16, 2016by Dan Meier 1 Comment

Truck driver Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) and his friend Wang Chi (Dennis Dun) drive to the airport to pick up Wang’s fiancée Miao Yin (Suzee Pai), only to see her kidnapped by […]

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His Girl Friday

January 15, 2016by Alex Chafey 2 Comments

Billed on Netflix as a romantic comedy where two men fight over a woman, this is actually a scathing satire of the newspaper industry. It is to printed news what […]

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