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DVD Releases: ‘Erasing David’
In Erasing David (2009), film maker Bond (…David Bond) sets out to follow his 007 namesake into a hidden world where no-one knows his name or recognises his face. Leaving behind his wife, daughter and unborn child, David tests just how far the all-seeing eyes of the state can see and whether, in today’s day…
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DVD Review: ‘Look At What The Light Did Now’
★★★★☆ With Look at What the Light Did Now (2010), US musician Feist presents something more than just a run of the mill music documentary, charting the highs and lows of success or a life on the road. Instead, she documents a passage of time in which herself, her band and a handful of experimental…
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DVD Releases: ‘White Material’
Clare Denis’ White Material (2010) combines beautiful cinematography, meticulously placed ambient music and a cast of stimulating characters to portray a very evocative and open-ended drama. The framing of the wild land of Africa helps to decentralise the individual performances of its cast by juxtaposing them with one another; the images of this untamed continent…
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DVD Releases: ‘The Silent Army’
In northern Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, children as young as nine are forced into armed conflict. Traumatised and brutalised, the child soldiers find themselves participating in horrific massacres. Thousands die in this way. Congo-born director, Jean van de Velde, has brought this sobering subject to the screen in The Silent Army (2008).…
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DVD Releases: ‘Shrek Forever After: The Final Chapter’
After the disappointment of Shrek the Third in 2007, there wasn’t much expectation for a fourth Shrek movie. Many felt that the franchise was tired and the anti-fairytale formula was exhausted. Nevertheless, DreamWorks Animation obviously thought there was life in the old dog yet; the final instalment of the franchise saw its theatrical release earlier…
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DVD Review: ‘Inception’
★★★★☆ Let’s be honest, at this point in time nothing this review says is likely to persuade or dissuade you from seeing Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster hit Inception (2010). The chances are you’ve already seen it four times and have the DVD on pre-order. Or you’ve been living under a rock for the past six months.Taking the film’s…
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Special Feature: Leslie Nielsen 1926-2010
In a career which spanned more than six decades and saw appearances in over a hundred films, Leslie William Nielsen had a momentous career to say the least. The Canadian born actor had starring roles in a number of film and television programmes, from Michael Curtiz’s The Vagabond King (1956) and Fred M. Wilcox’s Forbidden…
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Special Feature: Wikio Top 20 UK cinema blogs – November 2010
Every month, the hard working guys and girls at the online news provider Wikio produce a definitive run-down of the Top 20 UK Blogs across all their categories including culture, sport and, of course, cinema.Their monthly Top 20 UK Cinema Blogs is a fantastic way of assessing the most popular sites discussing all things cinematic throughout the country, and regularly…
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Film Review: ‘Monsters’
★★★★☆ Shot on location in New Mexico and featuring a cast of relatively unknown actors, British director Gareth Edwards has made a low-budget (reportedly as little as £500,000), mini-masterpiece in Monsters (2010), a mesh of industry-standard effects and raw human emotions, featuring two protagonists you can really connect with – a rarity in the science…
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Film Review: ‘Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale’
★★★★☆ There is a menacing feel to Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) right from the off, and we’re quickly made aware that this is no venture into traditional ‘schmaltz’. The film opens on a mining expedition somewhere in the mountains of Northern Europe, an area loaded with geographical authenticity for the subject matter at…
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