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Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) Review
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) Director: Banksy Starring: Thierry Guetta, Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’ follows oddball French filmmaker and artist Thierry Guetta on his journey through the world of street art. He attempts to create an archive of street artists’ individual styles and aims to capture a history of…
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So Bad it’s Good: Mars Attacks! (1996)
Mars Attacks! (1996) Director: Tim Burton Starring: Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnan, Jim Brown, Annette Bening, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lukas Hass. Plot: The people of earth struggle to fight against a hostile alien race intent on destroying all life on Earth, whilst having fun in the process. I remember when I first saw Mars Attacks! I was…
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The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) Flashback Review
The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) Director: Jon Amiel Starring: Bill Murray, Joanne Whalley, Peter Gallagher In “The Man Who Knew Too Little”, Wallace Ritchie is mistaken for an American spy on a mission to stop the assassination of world peace leaders. The movie follows the comical blockbuster store manager turned secret agent as…
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Locke (2013) Review
Locke (2013) Director: Steven Knight. Starring: Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson. Plot: One man with the perfect career and a perfect family is about to put it all on the line with a series of phone calls in a matter of hours. “When I left the site just two hours ago I had a…
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So Bad it’s Good: The Running Man (1987)
The Running Man (1987) Director: Paul Michael Glaser Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Jesse Ventura. Plot: In a dystopian future where convicted criminals must fight to the death in a live game show called ‘The Running Man’, Ben Richards, a man wrongly convicted of a shooting massacre, must fight to survive and…
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Woman in Gold (2015) Review
Woman in Gold (2015) Review Plot: Maria Altmann engages in a legal battle with the Austrian Government for the restitution of the famous Adele painting by Klimt which had been taken from her family home during WW2. Director: Simon Curtis Cast: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Max…
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Jaws, 40 years later… Is It Safe To Go Back in the Water Yet?
Jaws (1975) Director: Steven Spielberg. Starring: Roy Schneider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss. Plot: The chief of a small summer town enlists the help of a local fisherman and an out of town marine scientist to hunt down a massive Great White Shark that has been terrorising the locals. It’s been 40 years since the movie that…
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Human: Extended version VOL. 1 (2015) Review
Human: Extended version VOL. 1 (2015) Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand “Human” is a three volume feature film directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand in conjuction with Good Planet Foundation, Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, and Google. It asks questions like: What makes us human? Love? Laughter? Sadness? Curiosity? Our ability to feel or our ability to relate? I’ll admit, at first, I…
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Legend (2015) Review
Legend (2015) Director: Brian Helgeland Starring: Tom Hardy; Emily Browning Plot: A look at the life of the Kray twins from the perspective of Reggie’s wife Frances during the peak of their lives in 1960s London. View image | gettyimages.com The last gangster biopic I saw was Goodfellas. There’s just something about glamorizing real-life gangsters that I…
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Leap Year (2010) Review
Leap Year (2010) Director: Anand Tucker Writers: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont Starring: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott Plot: Anna has a perfectly scheduled life with a long-term boyfriend, Jeremy, to match. After he fails to propose, she plans a trip to surprise him in Dublin to honor an old Irish tradition of a woman…