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Time Bandits (1981) Review
Time Bandits (1981) Director: Terry Gilliam Screenwriters: Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin Starring: Craig Warnock, David Rappaport, Kenny Baker, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Sean Connery, Ian Holm US-born filmmaker Terry Gilliam has had a widely varied career and has proven himself over the course of five decades to be one of the most individualistic directors working in the…
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A Matter of Life and Death (1946) Review
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Screenwriters: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Starring: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Marius Goring, Raymond Massey, Abraham Sofaer, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron Not many metaphysical romantic dramas open with two jokes, but Powell and Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death does. First we get the disclaimer – “Any resemblance…
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The King of Staten Island (2020) Review
The King of Staten Island (2020) Director: Judd Apatow Screenwriters: Pete Davidson, Judd Apatow, Dave Sirus Starring: Pete Davidson, Bel Powley, Marisa Tomei, Maude Apatow, Bill Burr Pete Davidson is Peter Pan if Peter Pan refused to grow up by becoming a stoner who saw no reason to ever move out of his Mother’s basement.…
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Caliber 9 (1972) Review
Milano calibro 9 / Caliber 9 (1972) Director: Fernando Di Leo Screenwriter: Fernando Di Leo Starring: Gastone Moschin, Barbara Bouchet, Mario Adorf, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli, Ivo Garrani, Philippe Leroy, Lionel Stander In a world of tough guys and even tougher breaks, there is one overriding principle: fate. You can’t escape it. You must play…
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Come to Daddy (2019) Review
Come to Daddy (2019)Director: Ant TimpsonScreenwriter: Toby HarvardStarring: Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Michael Smiley, Martin Donovan, Madeleine Sami, Ona Grauer, Garfield Wilson Come to Daddy is a difficult thing to describe. It’s either a dysfunctional family drama that stops halfway through, or it’s a grotesque horror that doesn’t kick into high gear until the last…
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Down Among the Big Boys (1993) Review
Down Among the Big Boys (1993) Director: Charles Gormley Screenwriter: Peter McDougall Starring: Billy Connolly, Douglas Henshall, Rab Affleck, Ewan Stewart, Ashley Jensen, Gary Lewis, Billy Boyd Released in 1993, Down Among the Big Boys came at possibly the worst time in Scottish Cinema history. A few years removed from Bill Forsyth’s transition to making…
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The Vast of Night (2019) Review
The Vast of Night (2019)Director: Andrew PattersonScreenwriters: James Montague, Craig W SangerStarring: Sierra McCormick, Jake Horowitz, Gail Cronauer, Bruce Davis The Vast of Night is a razor-sharp little sci-fi and a stylistically confident directorial debut from Andrew Patterson. Presented like an extended episode of ‘The Twilight Zone’ or ‘The Outer Limits’, dipping into Roswell conspiracies…
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Little Voice (1998) Review
Little Voice (1998) Director: Mark Herman Screenwriter: Mark Herman Starring: Jane Horrocks, Brenda Blethyn, Michael Caine, Ewan McGregor, Philip Jackson, Annette Badland, Jim Broadbent From the director of 1994 working class drama Brassed Off comes the film adaptation of famed stage musical Little Voice, a distinctly British tale of how the biggest of talents can be present…
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008) Review
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008) Director: Mark Herman Screenwriter: Mark Herman Starring: Asa Butterfield, Vera Farmiga, Cara Horgan, Amber Beattie, David Thewlis, David Hayman, Jack Scanlon, Rupert Friend It takes a truly incredible film to make an audience physically and emotionally react without intention, something that Mark Herman’s The Boy in the Striped…
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) Review
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) Director: Edgar Wright Screenwriters: Michael Bacall, Edgar Wright Starring: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Alison Pill, Aubrey Plaza, Jason Schwartzman, Ellen Wong, Chris Evans, Brie Larson Following the success of the first two entries in the critically and commercially acclaimed Cornetto Trilogy, Edgar Wright…