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Archive for January, 2008

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

From the opening credits and Tommy Lee Jones’ portentous voice-over as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, this is a tight, taut exercise in filmmaking, a relentlessly tense thriller that works on a purely visceral level but also deals in higher ideas of good and evil.
Review by Sean Price

SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

There’s something both strange and familiar about Sweeney Todd. It is a tale that has been recounted on both the large and small screens several times over the last century and yet most people only know the broad strokes of the story – the serial killer who runs a barber’s shop that provides filling for the meat pies in the café below.
Review by Alex Fitch

BEAT GIRL

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Beat Girl is set in that mythic milieu in pop culture history – Soho in the late 50s – the moment when England discovered ‘cool’, when wild young merchant seamen such as Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard went looking for kicks during shore time and accidentally imported an American music called rock’n’roll.
Review by Paul Huckerby

TEENAGE HOOKER BECAME A KILLING MACHINE

Monday, January 7th, 2008

The premise of Teenage Hooker Became a Killing Machine is essentially a cross between I Spit on Your Grave and Robocop. A street-walking-sailor-suited-schoolgirl is murdered when she becomes pregnant by her teacher, and is brought back to life Bionic Woman-style by some mysterious organisation.
Review by Doc Horror

800 BULLETS

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Images of spinning tumbleweeds and drunken bar-room brawls set the scene for 800 Bullets, the latest offering from cult director Alex de la Iglesia, which finally sees a DVD release.
Review by James Merchant