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REVIEW: Toy Story 3
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Flashing back to the roots of the Toy Story narrative, we are treated to all the same aspects of warm and heartfelt storytelling that makes its predecessors such treasured classics. With a day-care nursery as the main setting of this plot, there’s the opportunity for Pixar’s creative minds to have a lot more fun developing so many new characters and re-working those who have already found firm places in our hearts. Amongst the newly introduced are a clown called Chuckles, the sinister Lotso Hugs bear who smells of strawberries but is far from sweet, a gambling octopus, a monkey with cymbals who takes the role of surveillance, and Big Baby the heavyweight.
BY LAUARA SHEARER
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REVIEW: Gainsbourg
Monday, July 26th, 2010
If the name Serge Gainsbourg doesn’t ring a bell, then you might recognise one of his most famous musical achievements via Jane Birkin’s sensual whisperings, ‘Je t’aime, oh oui, je t’aime’. France’s iconic maverick is brought to the silver screen by graphic novel artist Joann Sfar in a style that is in a word sublime. Bringing to life the innermost workings of the visionary Gainsbourg’s mind and madness, Sfar has created a masterpiece.
BY LAURA SHEARER
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REVIEW: Predators
Monday, July 26th, 2010
The beginning of Predators is promising, whether you’re familiar with the character or not. A sense of fear is sparked immediately upon the estranged groups’ arrival to the densely unchartered jungle terrain. The dramatic tension from the typically thematic music relates to both the jungle and the unknown, with the combination of higher metallic moans and grumbling jungle drums certainly createsing a wonderfully heavy atmosphere. It’s the perfect introduction to the fast paced action adventure thriller. It doesn’t take long to develop the weak and stereotypical personas of the group, and thus it is obvious from the outset that the main focus will be on the fight and escape sequences.
BY LAURA SHEARER
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REVIEW: Whatever works
Friday, July 9th, 2010
The latest comedy from movie making machine Woody Allen has been quite well anticipated. Those of you familiar with the early Allen masterpieces will have mixed feelings about Whatever Works and needless to say, expectations are equally as uneasy. Set in New York, none other than Allen’s favourite filmic city, this typically dark and off-beat comedy centres on misanthrope Boris Yellnikoff. It is difficult to see how Allen’s claims that he no longer casts himself in his films are true, because in Boris there are all the elements of characters that Allen has previously played.
BY LAURA SHEARER
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REVIEW: Robin Hood
Saturday, May 29th, 2010
The latest adaption of the infamous rouge that roamed Sherwood Forest reaches our screens in the shape of a Ridley Scott ideal. Ridley Scott as we all know, means lots of action sequences, manly speeches and poorly pieced together narratives, so expect no more from this hopeful blockbuster.
BY LAURA SHEARER
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REVIEW: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Friday, May 28th, 2010
The latest Bruckheimer production sees the uneasy transformation of a well loved console game to a hopeful silver screen blockbuster. It’s hard to see how this film could be the success that so many others of the same thematic conversion have failed to break even on, but believe me when I say it’s from another mindset to those familiars. Disney have yet again managed to draw up the perfect entertainment package, including unusually good lead actors and a decent attempt to mimic the source of the production.
BY LAURA SHEARER
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REVIEW: Samson and Delilah
Monday, May 17th, 2010
Deemed by the Australian press as a film that Australia could be proud of, and winner of the Camera D’Or award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, ‘Samson and Delilah’ is a love story told unlike any other. The small world in which the lovers inhabit is suddenly shaken when they are forced outside their comfort zones by their aborigine community. Mistaken as social outsiders, the two youths are confronted with a very foreign environment and their relationship is the building block that keeps them going. Director Warwick Thornton offers a truly original portrayal of young love and the struggle to come to grips with modernity in the midst of tradition.
BY LAURA SHEARER
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REVIEW: Iron Man 2
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
The second feature film installation based on the infamous Stan Lee’s original comic book Iron Man, isn’t very originally titled, and sadly the let-downs begin there. As a fan of the first adaptation, news of a sequel was music to my ears, especially as the charismatic Robert Downey Jr would this time be accompanied by Scarlet Johansson and Mickey Rourke. These big name inclusions have certainly helped attract audiences past the comic fans, but as far as blockbusters go, this just didn’t cut it. Not released during Easter holidays or saved for the summer, within a few minutes it becomes clear that it just wouldn’t have been worth the extra promotion to get it out in time. Of course we are flocking in our hordes to pay for our seats, but it’s not the Saturday night full ticket price film it should have been.
BY LAURA SHEARER
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REVIEW: Precious
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Lee Daniel’s film adaption of the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire has been critically acclaimed ever since its first appearances at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals as far back as January last year. It’s taken a long time to reach UK screens and even still, isn’t being as widely shown as I’d like to think it deserves. This touching emotional rollercoaster follows the story of Precious, an uneducated abused teenager living in Harlem New York, pregnant for a second time by her own birth father, as she tries to make her way in the small world around her.
BY LAURA SHEARER
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REVIEW: Ditching
Friday, March 26th, 2010
Certainly quirky, ‘Ditching‘ is the most recent of the post-apocalyptic themed films on release this year. With a refreshingly original twist of locating the story within the puzzlingly deserted landscape of Ulster, the small group travel this time in search of medicine.
BY LAURA SHEARER
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