Martha Marcy May Marlene
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Sean Durkin’s debut is a creepy, tense and ambiguous piece of work.
Review by Mark Stafford
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Carnage (0)
01/2/12 •
This is cinema as scab-picking and the characters are all cursed with an inability to let anyone else have the last word.
Review by John Bleasdale
The Curse (0)
25/1/12 •
Kôji Shiraishi’s The Curse (Noroi) is the conceptual descendant of the BBC’s notorious 1992 Ghostwatch Halloween Special.
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L’atalante (0)
18/1/12 •
Jean Vigo’s story of two newly-weds on a barge is magical, ethereal and romantic, but with dashes of surrealism and social realism.
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AFR (0)
17/1/12 •
Politics has, surprisingly, not been a target for the mockumentary as often as one might imagine.
Review by Neil Mitchell
Tatsumi (0)
13/1/12 •
Manga-ka Tatsumi’s classic tales reveal a downside to Japan’s economic boom, concentrating on the alienated and ground-down beset by warped sexual obsessions, degradation at the workplace and humiliation at home.
Review by Mark Stafford
Margin Call (0)
13/1/12 •
Based loosely on the sudden demise of Lehman Brothers, Margin Call is a nuanced, intriguing look at the events that led to the bank’s implosion and to the wider, global financial crisis.
Review by Sarah Cronin
Shame (0)
10/1/12 •
Is Steve McQueen’s much anticipated second film a truly great film or does it fall short?
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recent Comic Strip Reviews
04/1/12 •
The Blair Witch Project14/12/11 •
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Quatermass and the Pit05/9/11 •
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The Silent House
recent DVDs
20/1/12 •
Punishment Park17/1/12 •
AFR05/1/12 •
I’m Still Here04/1/12 •
The Blair Witch Project12/12/11 •
Best DVD/Blu-ray Releases of 2011
recent Films
02/2/12 •
Martha Marcy May Marlene01/2/12 •
Carnage25/1/12 •
The Curse18/1/12 •
L’atalante13/1/12 •
Tatsumi
recent Online Movies
27/10/11 •
Things We’d Have Missed without Them17/7/11 •
Immaterial17/5/11 •
Plinkett’s Secret Army18/4/11 •
In an Alien Fashion10/3/11 •
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