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MarBelle 2011 Top Ten

Normally the final weeks of December find me frantically scrutinising the published top ten lists of my fellow film types, in a mad dash effort to fit in a few

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El Vez 2011 Top Ten

Another year, another painful internal debate over the traditional end of year list and with an intimidating ten of Cave of Forgotten Dreams, The

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Jeanie Finlay 2011 Top Ten

2011 has been a funny old year. At the beginning I had just finished my documentary film Sound It Out and was getting ready to release it on DVD in the

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Miss D 2011 Top Ten

How does a year fly by so quickly? How come it only seems like yesterday I was being hassled by MarBelle to put together my 2010 list? I haven’t watched as

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Neil Fox 2011 Top Ten

It’s been a weird year for me. I’ve been spending so much time working on my doctorate it’s left less time for films, something I need to rectify in 2012

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Matt Strachan 2011 Top Ten

I’m a big fan of top ten lists and their assorted brethren (best of this, top twenty that, pre-mortem 1001 something or other). They don’t have the best of

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Martha Marcy May Marlene

Surely, there is no better indication of a film’s tension truly gripping its viewer, than when you have to remind yourself to breathe on more than one

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Take Shelter

Fans of Martin Scorcese’s HBO series Boardwalk Empire won’t be surprised by the powerful performance Michael Shannon gives in Jeff

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Films of 2011

I know what you’re thinking….”haven’t they just done films of 2010?” Well don’t worry, I haven’t made a time machine

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DN 2010 Top Ten

Over the past week or so we here at DN have been listing our ten favourite films of last year, but with eight writers contributing there’s a chance

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MarBelle 2010 Top Ten

OK, so here it is the list of the best films of 2010. I say ‘the list’ because obviously my selection isn’t subjective, it’s just cold,

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Danni Lizaitis 2010 Top Ten

I think my New Years resolution for 2011 will be to document every film I watch, I’ve compiled this list with the niggling feeling I’ve left something

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