Category: Review
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THE DEBT
Cineworld Glasgow, 30.09.11 There’s something determinedly old-fashioned about The Debt, the new film from director John Madden, not only the style with which Madden handles his drama and action sequences and the grainy, grey sheen given to the scenes set in East Berlin during the Cold War, but in the very story itself. In the…
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MELANCHOLIA
Cineworld Glasgow, 04.10.11 Lars Von Trier certainly divides opinion. Love his films, or hate them, there is no middle ground. After his infamous Cannes press conference, where he was supposed to be discussing his latest major film, Melancholia, but instead got caught discussing Nazism and sympathising with Hitler (it was all a misunderstood joke), the same…
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PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES
Glasgow Film Theatre, 26.09.11 The demise of the print news industry over the last ten years has been making headlines itself, and it becomes the focal point of Andrew Rossi’s behind the scenes access film – Page One: Inside The New York Times. The New York Times has the third largest circulation numbers in America, behind USA Today…
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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE MULTIPLEX: WHAT’S WRONG WITH MODERN MOVIES?
by Mark Kermode Mark Kermode and I have a number of disagreements about films. Not that he is aware of them of course, having never met me or read anything I have written or said about films (despite the fact he has worked on BBC TWO’s The Culture Show, as I have in the edit,…
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TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
Odeon East Kilbride, 16.09.11 The popular truth is that the demographic of cinema-goers is made up of primarily the 16-24 years old age group, and as such, if you want to have a hit movie then you have to appeal to the sensibilities of that group. Action, sex, comedy, celebrities to the fore; drama, literary…
Iain Kelly 