The Last Exorcism
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It’s that old Penn and Teller sketch. First you show them how it’s done – how it’s usually done, how those other schmucks would do the trick – then you do the trick again, only this time you do it differently, better, and with such élan, such verve, that no one’s going to work out how you did it, even though you just told them how.
Review by Robert Barry
CURRENT REVIEWS
Compulsion (0)
01/9/10 •
The Big Important Lawyer is making his final speech. Around him, the court officials and the people in the public gallery sit, their eyes closed, like dreamers.
Review by David Cairns
Pet Shop of Horrors (0)
01/9/10 •
The Queen Mum reviews this Gothic animé.
Comic strip review by David O’Connell
Cargo (0)
18/8/10 •
This slow-paced, atmospheric Swiss sci-fi movie is set in a grim future where Earth has become inhabitable.
Comic strip review by Paul Rainey
Film writing competition: Foxy Brown (0)
17/8/10 •
We are pleased to announce that the winner of our July film writing competition, run in connection with the Electric Sheep monthly film club at the Prince Charles Cinema is Adam Lowes.
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (0)
01/8/10 •
Alongside a romance across the centuries we have an attempt at the world land-speed record, a romantically distracted bull-fighter, a gypsy flamenco band and a Tudor-period flashback.
Review by Paul Huckerby
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (0)
01/8/10 •
The film’s selling point is a nasty idea – that a mad surgeon, Dr Heiter (Dieter Laser), will capture three human subjects and sew them in a row, mouth to anus to mouth, so that they effectively become one creature with one digestive tract.
Review by Mark Stafford
A Sixth Part of the World (1)
01/8/10 •
While the political idealism of A Sixth Part of the World might jar with modern scepticism about political spin, the film still appears fresh and vital.
Review by Eleanor McKeown
Earth (1)
01/8/10 •
Watchers of Alexander Dovzhenko’s 1930 silent film about collectivisation of agriculture in the Ukraine must accustom themselves to being treated like dimwits. You can see who the hero is because he is strong and tall and handsome.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff
PREVIOUS REVIEWS
recent Comic Strip Reviews
01/9/10 •
Pet Shop of Horrors18/8/10 •
Cargo11/7/10 •
Martin01/6/10 •
The Hidden Fortress04/5/10 •
Comic Strip Review: The Card Player
recent DVDs
01/9/10 •
Compulsion01/8/10 •
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman01/8/10 •
A Sixth Part of the World01/8/10 •
Earth01/8/10 •
Kamui
recent Films
01/9/10 •
The Last Exorcism01/8/10 •
The Human Centipede (First Sequence)30/7/10 •
Down Terrace26/7/10 •
Gainsbourg14/7/10 •
Inception
recent Online Movies
01/6/10 •
The Vice Guide to Film: Mexican Narco Cinema19/5/10 •
Online Movies: Girl Number 902/4/10 •
Online Movies: Stingray Sam02/3/10 •
Online Movies: Activist Cinema01/2/10 •
Online Movies: davidlynch.com
