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(I hate spoilers. Even so, there may be one or two slight ones, plus one biggy later on but i'll warn you again before that one!) I feel I need to rant! What...
Despite me being a big fan of 'Nicole Kidman' I have been avoiding this film for some time now (i.e. on at least three occasions I could have seen this, but...
Standout performance for me was by Natalie Portman. I found the whole film a bit of a sprawling mess. Much more fun than I expected though. Did you not just...
Obviously this sort of thing is in the eye of the beholder, hence our differing opinions on THE ENGLISH PATIENT. One point I can find common ground with you on...
The building looks like a run down school. Some people arrive, and are interviewed separately. The interviewers confirms that they are dead, and that they...
In answer to your two questions... Yeah, Jude Law was in The Talented Mr Ripley, playing a vain and vacuous playboy only interested in things at surface level,...
Based on the real life Shining Path guerrillas in Peru, first time director Malkovich avoids specifics and simply declares at the beginning of the film that we...
I don't know, the way it is purported to have been done looks a bit iffy to me. You will have to give us more ! Mike filmfan99uk premise on how --- In...
Why do stories affect us so much? The power of a good story is astonishing: it seems to find a weakness in all those determined adult defences of reason and...
Hi Back in December, Mike wrote a review of this film which frustrated me a bit. I finally dragged my boyfriend along to see it yesterday, so I thought I'd ...
Hi Damien. Let me first of all say that for the last six months or so I have been toying with the idea of taking up climbing. Nothing like these boys of course...
Mike, You may be interested (if you don't already know about it) in the Kendal Mountain Film Festival. www.mountainfilm.co.uk It's in my home town, on the edge...
Having watched this again on DVD, I have to admit to enjoying it a lot more. The jokes now seem to work much better, and the whole thing feels far less...
Mike Peters is getting over the demise of a six year relationship. Well, actually, he isn't. His friends try desperately to take his mind off the ex love of...
From the vast landscape of suburbia rises our urban hero. This being a Shane Meadows film, the hero is called Dek: he's a bit of a nerd and works in a garage....
Students, Paris, 1968. While the political climate heats up ready for the explosion of riots, the film concentrates on the intimate, sensual, and detached ...
This is my first Fassbinder; I found it enjoyable and interesting. What I enjoyed in particular was the stylised, almost formal, look of the film. The clean,...
Kurosawa seems to be having a whale of a time on this film. This is a first class action movie, with brilliant use of widescreen composition (apparently the...
Having watched this film again on TV, I found myself far more affected. The understated feel of the piece works very well, and I found myself far more...
Two scenes can now be added to my list of all time favourite film moments. The first is the opening scene. On request, a young man gathers together some of...
I am researching a book about Bobby Driscoll. Bobby worked at Disney for almost 10 years before being fired because of acne at the age of 16 in 1953. Within...
The filmmakers collaborative has a 12 minute 16mm version available to rent for $30. Which is strange because I saw it listed as a 3 hour unfinished epic by...
Or should that be along came a trailer, and f***** up the film again. Gawd I am so sick of this happening; there most be another way to promote a film without...
I haven't seen it (but it's on my dvd rental queue!) but weren't those two peasants the inspiration behind R2-D2 and C3-PO? And on the subject of Kurosawa and...
Maybe trailers should be made to state what percentage of the decent jokes are revealed. In this case, 100% i think! i don't think you can expect a comedy to...
