The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
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Review: David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo... didn't they adapt the Millenium trilogy just two years ago? Why didn't they cast Noomi Rapace, the 'Girl' from the original? Is it a faithful adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novel? So many questions...
The original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was excellent and deserved its critical acclaim, but it wasn't in English, relegating it to a limited art house international release. While shooting on-location and in the native tongue added to the aut...
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Black Swan
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Review: Little so-called “Caucasian” girls generally tend to get involved in one of two extra-curricular activities… ballet or horse-riding. It’s a tradition, a rite of passage that soccer moms feel compelled to offer their little princesses. The reasons vary: they’ll look cute in a tutu, the riding lessons are cheaper than a pony, “I never got a chance to play Barbie” or perhaps mom just wants to fulfill her little brat’s every whim. Whatever the motivator, it’s a chance for every gir...
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Source Code
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Review: Source Code is a Duncan Jones movie. Jones is David Bowie's son but judging from the critical acclaim generated from his first two movies, he'll probably be more famous for being a director with Moon and now Source Code under his belt. If Moon was inspired by Solaris and 2001: A Space Odyssey, Source Code comes with its own cinematic concoction, a sleek blend of Quantum Leap, Groundhog Day and Speed - starring Jacob 'Jake' Gyllenhaal... that's pronounced jill-en-hall.Colter Stevens (Gyllenhaal) ...
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Contagion
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Review: Sure, a killer disease that resembles the symptoms of the common flu (except for the dying part) probably doesn’t sound like the most thrilling movie concept ever imagined, but Contagion’s success sprouts from much more than that. The first thing this risky film has got going for it is director Steven Soderbergh, best known for very serious movies like ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ and ‘Syriana’, as well as some delicious off-beat humour such as in films like ‘Oceans Thirteen’ an...
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The Hunger Games
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Review: The Hunger Games is old hat. We've seen our fair share of films involving a group of children, forced to do combat in a confined area in a kill-or-be-killed situation. Suzanne Collins has just commericialised the format made famous by William Golding's Lord of the Flies, writing a novel that has enough human interest and viral appeal to capture a young adult readership and broader film audience.
William Golding's Lord of the Flies is the source, a novel which pitted a stranded choir of British ...
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Apt Pupil
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Review: Apt Pupil comes from the pages of the self-titled book by the master of horror Stephen King. The story is more involved than some sort of unidentified evil. The evil Stephen King writes about, is the evil within all of us. World War II was laced with atrocities that will probably never be lived down. The Nazi concentration camps were a few degrees short of Hell on earth, and anyone that survived them would probably say the same. Unspeakable acts of genocide were committed on a large scale, and t...
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Limitless
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Review: "What if a pill could make you rich and powerful?" is the tag line for Limitless, a film adaptation of Alan Glynn's novel that plays with the notion that we only use part of our minds. Just like the little blue sex wonder drug, Limitless imagines the scenario if a drug could be designed to harness our mind's full potential. If scientists could do it for our penises, there must be a way to get the other head working too? Bradley Cooper plays Eddie Morra, a struggling writer, who comes to possess ...
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Take Shelter
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Review: Michael Shannon is quickly becoming everyone's favourite crazy guy. He has real on-screen presence and the smarts to carry the lead in just about any film. He impressed with the stage-to-screen adaptation of Bug and delivers more of that psychological intensity in Take Shelter, a surreal character portrait about an everyman whose apocolyptic nightmares are beginning to take root in his waking life.Think Revolutionary Road meets Twister, with a strain of Noah and the Ark in this arthouse thriller...
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Angels & Demons
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:429 ]
Review: Angels & Demons is the follow-up to the movie adaptation that capped the global phenomenon known as The Da Vinci Code. Tom Hanks reprises his role as Robert Langdon and Ron Howard takes the director’s chair again. This time the Da Vinci Code team are prepared and armed with criticism from their previous project, making Angels & Demons an action/thriller with a revenge plot between the Catholic Church and the Illuminati. If an age-old vendetta wasn’t enough, the stakes are raised by a hi-tech...
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Chloe
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Review: Chloe is an erotic thriller with a difference. The movie is directed by Atom Egoyan (Adoration), headlining an all-star cast with Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried. The movie poster and single name title may have echoes of Lolita, but the story follows a more traditional erotic thriller formula with the classic love triangle. David Stewart (Neeson), a respectable professor and married man, misses a flight and an unexpected surprise party back home. An incriminating photo and some u...
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