I’ve never been a big fan of vampire movies - the melodrama, the drooling adolescent sexuality, the powdered rakes in effeminate period attire. Give me flesh-eating zombies any day. With the living dead, it’s always party time.
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Blood Runs Dry
Monday, March 8th, 2010 by Dave Durbach
I’ve never been a big fan of vampire movies - the melodrama, the drooling adolescent sexuality, the powdered rakes in effeminate period attire. Give me flesh-eating zombies any day. With the living dead, it’s always party time.
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Wonderland Demystified
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 by Sheetal Magan
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Enter Alice in Wonderland 3D – The Tim Burton Experience. Put on your glasses, leave all civil adult cynicism at the door and allow your faculty of wonder to be awakened and the child in you to be entertained. This is what I told myself when going to watch the Alice in Wonderland, remembering that it was a book that once captured my imagination, an animation that I consumed daily with feverish enthusiasm because before I even knew
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In Praise of Mister Weirdo
Friday, February 26th, 2010 by Sean O'Toole
“These are your names: Mr. Brown, Mr. White… Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue… Mr. Orange and Mr. Pink.”
“Why am I Mr. Pink?”
“Because you’re a faggot! All right?”
By all accounts Steve Buscemi, a former fire-fighter with New York’s Engine 55, got off lightly when he was christened Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantino’s tomato-sauce masterpiece, Reservoir Dogs.
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Jozi Vibes
Thursday, February 25th, 2010 by Andy Davis
There is a default position when watching South African comedies, invariably, you will cringe more than you laugh, and wish you could dissolve yourself into a puddle on the floor and ooze out of the movie theatre, undetected, to the safety of your computer where you can create some cyanide criticism that will hopefully crush the spirit and end the career of the film maker. It’s not intentional, it’s just that so many South African comedies are such kak.
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Drunk ‘n Blue
Thursday, February 18th, 2010 by Roger Young
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Without Jeff Bridges Crazy Heart would just be another made for late Sunday TV movie about the dangers of alcoholism and country music, with a modicum of resolution. However Bridge’s understated performance adds layers to the story that keep it remarkably true to the novel it was adapted from.
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Murder Changes Everything
Thursday, February 18th, 2010 by Dave Durbach
Narrated post mortem by the victim of her neighbourhood psycho, The Lovely Bones retraces the last few days of Suzie Salmon and her family’s subsequent efforts to come to terms with her death.
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Memory of a Bright Star
Monday, February 15th, 2010 by Sarah Dawson
I like the term “passage of time”. It lends a spatial element to an abstraction that mostly lives in the mind as a linear axis. The movement of time seems to us to be inflexible and unstoppable, and indeed it is, within the limits of the construct’s definition, which is ultimately all it is - it’s intrinsic to time to be unwavering.
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Foxy Pictures
Thursday, February 4th, 2010 by Dave Durbach
Before JK Rowling took over, discerning kids all over the world were enjoying the twisted world of Roald Dahl. One of the last of his children’s stories to be given some form of film treatment is Fantastic Mr. Fox, a classic battle of wits between man and beast, and the latest offering from Wes Anderson.
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