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I have just returned home from watching shutter island and i am relieved to say my anticipation was not in vain.
I am a huge fan of Martin Scorcese and even though i have every belief in his abilities i still go into each new film nervously, hoping it lives up to my expectations (i.e. the departed which was better than i could have imagined).
Shutter Island was completely different to what i was expecting, the trailers made it look like a terrifying thriller, but it couldn't be further from it

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its good

February 12th 2010 02:22

: have you seen this?

I have just finished watching the dead girl, an absolutely breath taking, mesmerizing film. I lost track of all time and became immersed in the stories of each character, each one fascinating and tragic in its own way.

This was presumably the last film Brittany Murphy starred in, and this makes the film all the more tragic. She was brilliant, absolutely brilliant as Krista a.k.a the dead girl. This film has a brilliant cast of stars, everyone was really suited to the part and even the quickest of appearances add to the dimensions of this film

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SORRY!

January 6th 2010 02:42

: SORRY!

I have been really slack with posting lately. I know i know, i'm like the child who never calls home. But you havn't been much better, where are the comments? I've been travelling for work, at the moment im in a small, small town and because i have nothing better to do ill start reviewing again. The first to feel my wrath: Gus Van Sant. You have a knack for making beautiful films, but there is no substance! Wait, i should say your films elephant and last days, ive seen others (e.g. milk) and that was brilliant. Michael Pitt is a great actor, but the way you made him stumble and crawl through last days was torturous to watch, not empathetically, just because it was boring. Im at work right now, so i'll finish this in another post. Sorry to sound mean mister van sant, but these films were disapointing. Tomorrow:The Elephant gets shot (tastless i know).

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So this box/sucking theme is recurring?

November 18th 2009 12:58

: Boxing Helena

I had the misfortune to watch boxing helena, after much anticipation, and was let down. I know it is completely unfair to expect David Lynch's daughter to be as brilliant as him, but i did not expect her work to be so utterly affected by everything cheap and tacky in the 90's. There are way too many sex scenes and way WAY too many shots of 'helena' bathed in water, candlelight etc. Oh, and the music was terrible. There was no atmosphere, no sense of mood or attachment. I can't think of any redeeming features, i only finished the film through sheer curiosity at how much worse it would get.

The premise of the film is in itself flimsy, and there are inconsistencies with information. Nick had a one night stand with helena, they slept together ONCE, and she was taunting him by saying how many orgasms he never gave her. Really? And the whole thing with his mother, that was needless and i have to admit, a bit fruity

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What's in the box?

October 29th 2009 09:47

: Nothing anyone needs to know about

My boyfriend and I went to the cinemas today and decided to see the box, starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden. I can see the moment clearly: the lights went down and the screen roared to life to reveal the beginning of the movie...

One hundred and fifteen minutes later I had that nauseous, suffocated feeling you get when you've been in an overly long meeting or lecture. I don't know where to begin with this one, I really don't. I can't decide what was worse: the acting, the plot holes or the fact that this was a legitimate attempt at film making

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The Death of Bunny Munro

September 22nd 2009 06:39

: Im back

What to say about this book. I honestly don't know where to start; did I like it? Didn't I? I really cannot be sure.

The day before I began to read this book I finished Nick Cave's other offering entitled "And the ass saw the angel". It was a dirty, bleeding grimy book- and one of the most brilliantly written I have had the pleasure to read. I would describe the book as gruesomely beautiful, tragic and insightful. Oh, and nightmarish as hell

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A note i sent to empire magazine online

July 26th 2009 02:59

: ok

I recently posted this on the Empire online site as a way of venting the anger i had at good reviews being given to bad films. The replies have been mixed, one person had a cry about me criticising Requiem for a dream and se7en in the same post. I felt i needed to because both of these films were awful. And of course the is the obligatory one about signs again because enough bad things cant be said about that film. Hope you enjoy this rant, i had fun writing it.

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Could you do me favour...?

July 16th 2009 09:48

: yes

I have noticed that alot of people frequent this page, at last count i had 217 hits in one day. That to me is pretty impressive. I would not know that anyone has visited this page though because no one has left any comments!! Please, if you read my blog and have any kind of a reaction to it can you leave a comment for me, just to know how my writing is being recieved... thanks alot guys, hope you enjoy my stuff, alot more coming really soon.

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MILK

July 6th 2009 11:21

Sean Penn is one of only a handful of actors who continues to surprise me in a good way. He is at a point in his career where other actors careers have begun to wane (think tom hanks's career from 2002-present, with the exception of charlie wilsons war). Milk is an absolutely amazing film about the beginning of gay activism in America, led by the courageous Harvey Milk.

Before watching this film, i wasn't actually sure what it was about; i had heard all of the buzz surrounding it so i decided it must be worth watching. After the film finished and after i had stopped crying i felt truly lucky to live in these modern times. Yes, there are wars, economic crisis etc. but these are things which have always been around; atleast we don't have the added problems of bigotry which was so rampant during the 60's and 70's. This film is sure to be a classic which teaches us to remember the struggles and conflicts in the past

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June 14th 2009 11:24

I want to preface this with something that really annoys me, and to a degree scares me. Most people I know could not care less about the important films of the past, most dubbing anything black and white as boring and pointless. Why would movie studios and film production companies spend millions of dollars and hundreds of hours painstakingly restoring these films and putting them on DVD if they werent classics in every sense of the word? This annoys me because people refuse to open their minds and see what is out there, what the films of the past can teach us. The thing that scares me is the people my age in twenty years or so will be the heads of these film studios and film production companies. What then? In place of the musical singin in the rain, will it be step up 2: the streets? And will some like it hot be replaced by sorority girls?

I really want people to think about what Im saying; these classic films deserve our attention. Just because they may not be in colour, or even have sound, this does not mean you wont be moved or entertained any less. I have taken to changing a few peoples minds on the subject, opening them up to classics (my boyfriend watched the Humphrey Bogart film the big sleep with me and quite enjoyed it

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