Category: Commentary
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Mine
The Riverfront, a photo by iainthekid on Flickr. This photo sums up a lot of things that I think of as ‘mine’ and define ‘me’. The British Film Institute cinema on the Southbank in London has a restaurant attached to it – ‘The Riverbank’. – Great atmosphere, people, culture, food and cinema, all in one…
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DREDD 3D
Odeon Glasgow Quay, 18.09.12 Just when you thought you were about to read another diatribe against the use of 3D, let me start by making one claim in the gimmicky, pointless, annoying formats favour. In Dredd, a film-maker has finally found a use for 3D that actually impresses. That’s right, I said impresses. When the…
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IN TIME
Odeon Glasgow Quay, 16.11.11 After a gap of 6 years since he wrote and directed Nicolas Cage in the average Lord Of War (2005), Andrew Niccol is back with In Time, a film in which he returns to the sci-fi world that he mined successfully for Gattaca (1997) and to a lesser extent in S1mone (2001). Set in the near future, In…
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MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
Cineworld Glasgow, 13.10.11 Midnight In Paris is Woody Allen’s 44th feature film, and already his most successful at the box office. This says a lot about inflation rates and cinema ticket prices, but also points to the popularity of Owen Wilson, in the lead role as Gil, and of the city of Paris, which must…
Iain Kelly 