Archive for February 5th, 2010
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Little Big Man
This is a film that has its heart in the right place, but is confusing and often dart around too. By this I mean that a point in the film is trying to fool the western genre and the next minute is showing a bloody slaughter of indigenous people, and try to show the [...]
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Food Of Love
Paul (Kevin Bishop) is a pianist of aspiration which is a pin of pages of his idol, an accomplished classical pianist, Richard Kennington (Paul Rhys). The professional relationship becomes instantly brief flirtation, but the mother of Paul, manic, Pamela (Juliet Stevenson) gets in the road.
Months later, on a trip to Barcelona, Spain, [...] -
Exiled
Johnnie To is fast approaching legendary status in Hong Kong cinema and films in the quality of the exiles to their credit, which comes as little surprise. Since John Woo is moved to Hollywood, which has assumed the mantle of Shoot em up image in Asia, but has exceeded Wo with their storytelling skills [...]
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The Wind That Shakes The Barley
This is a film about the Irish struggle for independence followed by the Irish Civil War, but it is written and directed by a socialist, English, Ken Loach. Unfortunately Loach tries to write the civil war, as if fighting against supporters of the treaty (and effective instigators of the civil war) were a [...]