Review Tag Archive

Film Festival, Live Action

GrimmFest 2011: The Whisperer in Darkness

I was once again fortunate enough to attend some of the Grimm Up North horror film festival in Manchester, now in its third year. An unplanned change in venue

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Live Action

Sleeping Beauty

Having sufficiently got over my jealousy of MarBelle’s LFF jaunt and screenings aplenty, we made our way to the Screen on the Green for Julia

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Live Action

Potiche

The romantic comedy has had a comeback of sorts over the last few years. We say ‘of sorts’, because whilst every attractive person in Hollywood has

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Live Action

Tyrannosaur

Let me preface this review by saying that I’m one of them ones with a lady garden. Having been subjected to the chatter of philosophical men (suspected)

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Live Action

Drive

Having watched Drive last night in the sweltering heat of an Indian summer, I now find myself in a car, windows down, cruising the roads of England, the

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Asides, Live Action

Wasp

Of the 100s, probably 1000s of short films I've seen in my life, Andrea Arnold's 2003 Oscar winning short 'Wasp' is without a doubt one of the best.

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Documentary

Knuckle

The boxing film has become somewhat of a staple of the Hollywood film industry and with this year’s Oscar success for David O. Russell’s The

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Animation, Music Video

Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then Live at Black Rat Gallery

  On the 27th July I made my way to Black Rat Gallery to see Brent Green’s Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then. The event was hosted by Branchange Film

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Live Action

The Myth of the American Sleepover

Films like The Myth of the American Sleepover don’t come along very often; strong in nostalgia and packed with the idiosyncrasies of the teenage years,

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Live Action

The Silent House

With the release of the fourth film in the Scream series this summer again providing a self parodying insight into Hollywood horror, we are once more left

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Live Action

SUPER

With Marvel Films currently dominating movie screens around the world, the super hero film is definitely in vogue with cinema goers at the moment. This summer

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Live Action

Small Town Murder Songs

Since making the transition from his homeland Sweden, Peter Stormare has found himself restricted to supporting roles as various foreign oddballs in some of

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