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This was going to be a very quick post about how I can’t wait to see In The Loop, the British film about the inanity and idiocy of modern politics, from the team that came up with the amazing The Thick Of It.
And now it’s going to be a very short post wondering who the [...]

Oh. My. God.
Well, at least we know how Christian Bale manages to keep coming up with all these brooding, slightly scary performances in films such as Batman Begins & Dark Knight, The Machinist and, errr, American Psycho: it’s because it seems that he’s actually a bit of a British Psycho.
It seems that just days before [...]

Another dreary Sunday afternoon, another amazing film: this time it’s the Brazilian epic City Of God. It’s one of those films I simply assume that everyone has seen, but judging by the number of people who hadn’t seen La Haine, I guess that’s naive. If you haven’t, you really should.
City Of God tells the (scarily [...]

This afternoon I watched what must be one of my favourite movies of all time, La Haine.
The film, the title of which means Hate, is an incredibly powerful French movie about a group of youths on a deprived housing estate outside Paris (in France the inner cities are outside the cities) the day after a [...]

As it was such a miserable day yesterday I spent the afternoon on the sofa ploughing my way through a bunch of DVDs. And with Quantum of Solace less than a week away it seemed like the perfect chance to revisit Daniel Craig’s first outing as 007, Casino Royale. It was just as good as [...]

I went to see In Search Of A Midnight Kiss last night at The Curzon in Soho. I have to say that I wasn’t really expecting that much, but it was absolutely amazing. Funny, tender, sweet, romantic, tragic, cool. And the black and white photography even makes LA, a place I’ve never had any desire [...]