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February 15, 2011
Baftastic Voyage
How to present a British Academy of Film and Television Award
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February 14, 2011
5 live review: True Grit
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews True Grit.
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February 11, 2011
Get Carter 40th Anniversary
Forty years ago, movie star Michael Caine, playwright and actor John Osborne, Swedish siren Britt Ekland, and a who's who of British character actors were brought together under Mike Hodges' clean direction to create a very fine gangster movie indeed. As gritty and downbeat as the Ted Lewis novel it draws on, the film has a punch like few others. Everyone can quote the lines, but just why is Carter's impact so profound, so long-lasting?
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February 8, 2011
Brighton Rock and Roll
In his new take on Brighton Rock, director Rowan, son of Roland, Joffé has shifted the setting forward in time to the early 1960s. A stellar cast that includes Sam Riley, Angela Riseborough and Helen Mirren (not to mention the great Phil Davis) look fantastic in the seedy seaside setting. But isn't this more than an updated tribute to Graeme Greene and the hallowed 1947 movie? Isn't there another iconic Brighton movie being exhumed for (scooter and motorcycle) parts?
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5 live review: The Fighter
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews The Fighter.
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February 4, 2011
What Oscar Got Wrong Again
The nominations for the 2011 Academy Awards have been revealed and, as usual, they don't make much sense.
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February 1, 2011
Spoiler Alert
Star Wars. Is that the name of a film or a spoiler? Is something I say still a spoiler if by not mentioning it at all I have given you no idea what the film I'm reviewing is about? Is this spoiler business now completely out of hand?
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January 31, 2011
5 live review: The Mechanic
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews The Mechanic.
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January 28, 2011
Reviewing the ratings system
My recent blog on the meaning of the NC17 and my fulsome encomium to the earlier works of Colin "Oscar" Firth set many of your digits a- tippity-tapping and now it's time for me to review your welcome outpourings.
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January 25, 2011
When is a remake not a remake?
The Coen brothers' True Grit starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon may be regarded as a variant on Henry Hathaway's True Grit starring John Wayne and Glen Campbell, but as far as I'm concerned it is something much more than a remake. So just what is it that distinguishes a fine new retelling of a forty-year-old Western from a mindless American remake of a Swedish vampire movie, say?
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