Script for Honest Trailer: TRAP FOR CINDERELLA
Lately Ive been hearing about so-called honest trailers when some bored teenager or grandmother decides to redub the previews for …
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Film Review: WADJDA: Girl with a bike equals uplifting Saudi drama
WADJDA begins with a group of Saudi schoolgirls facing their teacher. All except one. The feet of Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) point at …
Film Review: GIRL RISING: Send girls to school? I’d like to give director Richard E. Robbins an education!
GIRL RISING is a globe-trotting documentary-anthology conscience-pricker, where girls in various countries in the developing world…
Film Review: BORROWED TIME: taxidermy to the light side
PICTURED: Juliet Oldfield, Theo Barklem-Biggs and Phil Davis participate in a post-screening Q and A at UK Cinema Showcase. The Lo…
Film Review: PAIN AND GAIN: Tussles and muscles make the wishful seem facile
The Miami-set PAIN AND GAIN belongs to the sub-genre of idiot crime movies, that is, movies in which a hapless group of criminals …
Film Review: PACIFIC RIM: More like Specific Grim
Weve been waiting a long time for Guillermo Del Toro to get behind the camera again. We all like his Spanish language movies, CRON…
Larry Oliver – Diary of a Film Reviewer – 1 to 30 June 2013
Saturday 1 June Why are there some many people wandering round North London wearing AMERICAN IDIOT t-shirts? Because Green Day is …
Film Review: Only God Forgives: going Noë-where
Nicolas Winding Refn, director of DRIVE, the PUSHER trilogy and BRONSON, cites the influence of Argentine migr Gaspar No (IRREVERS…
Film Review: BEFORE MIDNIGHT: when is a trilogy incomplete?
BEFORE MIDNIGHT is the third feature to focus on Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) directed by Richard Linklater and wr…
Film Review: THIS IS THE END – I shouldn’t have laughed, but I did
THIS IS THE END plays to a fantasy of celebrity life. Famous dudes hang out with other famous dudes. They consume drugs and alcoho…
