FILM: Few thrills in anaemic teenage vampire romp
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{ "#" : "Not being a 12-year-old girl, I was unaware that is, apparently, the most important thing that has ever happened in the world." , "b" : "Twilight"}
Not being a 12-year-old girl, I was unaware that is, apparently, the most important thing that has ever happened in the world. Twilight
Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen makes his feature debut with the bewildering and unforgettable , the story of the last six weeks of Bobby Sands’s life in Long Kesh prison. Hunger
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Having dipped his toe with punchy cameos in films such as For Your Consideration and Night at the Museum, television’s favourite creep Ricky Gervais makes his Hollywood debut as a lead in the spiky, but safely pasteurised, studio comedy . Ghost Town
Ever, Dirk: The Bogarde Letters. Edited by John Coldstream, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, €33.75
The Coen brothers were always going to struggle to match the Oscar-winning glories of No Country For Old Men, but taken for what it is - a pitch black political comedy - is a fine achievement, made all the more engaging by a series of clipped, breakn
There is a remarkable scene in Matteo Garrone’s Italian mafia film where a smooth-talking, ostensibly respectable businessman is overseeing the dumping of thousands of barrels of toxic waste in an abandoned quarry. Gomorrah,
Twinned curiosities this week, with David Mamet, American cinema’s snarling id, bringing us his martial arts Rocky and Liam Neeson laying waste to all around him in a politically whiffy French kidnap drama.
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{ "#" : "Having failed to make his wife Madonna into a film star and likewise, botched his attempts to fashion a crime caper out of the ancient Jewish Kabbalah, mock-cockney Guy Ritchie goes back to his roots for the surprisingly effective and determ
{ "#" : "Minimalist American home-invasion thriller is a bit like Michael Haneke’s Funny Games - without the fun and games." , "b" : "The Strangers"}
The phenomenal success of his Spanish Civil War fantasy, Pan’s Labyrinth, turned Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro into a force in world cinema.