Category: Movie Reviews
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Finding Neighbors Film Review
Finding Neighbors follows a once lauded graphic novel creator resigned to writer’s block.
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The Congress DVD/Blu-Ray Review
The Congress is a complete mess… but a bold and inventive one that you can’t help but admire.
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Milius DVD Review
An affectionate documentary about the writer of Apocalypse Now, and director of such macho movies as Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn.
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Grave of the Fireflies Blu-ray Review
Takahata’s miserable masterpiece is one of great beauty, a melancholy piece which celebrates life and finds joy in the trivial.
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Kiki’s Delivery Service Blu-ray Review
Alongside Spirited Away, this adaptation of Eiko Kadono’s novel is perhaps Miyazaki’s most accessible take on “the gulf that exists between independence and reliance” in girls entering their teens. It’s a quaint film, but one which is no less touching for all its cosiness.
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Dr Who Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review
No, not Doctor Who, Dr Who. Amicus Productions’ two movies feature a time traveller who is no Time Lord, but a seemingly senile scientist whose surname happens to be Who.
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Oblivion Movie Review
Oblivion is an honourable failure. Not because it’s a bad film, but because it suffers from a bit of an identity crisis, and ultimately pays homage to other, better sci-fi movies, without carving out its own identity.
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Evil Dead (2013) Movie Review
Evil Dead is, rather ironically, a soulless affair. It doesn’t help that the film’s best moments are in the trailer.