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July 7, 2010
Breathless Versus Breathless
So who wins the battle of the Breathless? Jean-Luc Godard's groundbreaking 1960s all-time classic of the nouvelle vague or Jim McBride's feverish 1980s paean to kineticism and trousers.
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July 5, 2010
It's not like that at the movies
Some sporting tournament in Africa has captured the attention of a good deal of the British population but for me it simply offered an opportunity to ask how you would constitute a perfect alternative-to-football triple bill, and from Jaws to The Lives of Others by way of The Graduate, Hairspray and Cool Runnings, you have done yourselves proud!
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July 4, 2010
5 live review: Shrek Forever After
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June 29, 2010
The movie songs that could almost have been real
As Russell Brand's new movie Get Him to the Greek parties onto our cinema screens the muse of fake movie songs offers up a pantheon of parallel pop classics such as "Furry Walls." But who else has made the greatest fake pop songs of all time and what are they? Well, The Rutles, obviously...
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June 24, 2010
World Cup Special
In the world of movies the World Cup in South Africa is a good thing, but perhaps not for the reasons you imagine... and if you are not football crazy, football mad, how else might you gratify that cinephile urge?
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June 21, 2010
Did someone actually make a good case for 3d?
There's a new movie out in 3D. Toy Story 3D. I liked it. A lot. Almost made me forget Avatar, Alice in Wonderland in 3D and all the rest of that point-in-the-eye trickery that passes for cinematic entertainment these days. But before you all get too excited at this apparent volte-face I have two words for you: foot-lamberts.
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June 16, 2010
Horrors of the Past
Aliens, Jaws, Poltergeist... of course these and all those other inappropriate videos and DVDs scared you half to death when you were kids, but what about some of your other nightmare movies: The Neverending Story anyone?!
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June 14, 2010
5 live review: Brooklyn's Finest
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June 11, 2010
Hay, Hay Let's Go
After a weekend of relentless celebrity-oriented activity at the Hay literary festival and the BAFTAs I am now more comfortably back among my own people, i.e. you lot. Still, lot's to tell... and by the way, check out News 24 this weekend and you might get a glimpse of the pilot for a new movie show featuring yours truly...
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June 7, 2010
Herzog, Cage and You
Herzog won't cop to any Ferrara influences on his particular species of Bad Lieutenant, but some of you are not so sure: just one observation of many from those among you who felt my review did not treat der meister's latest opus with due respect...
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