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Cinema Movie Review: Les Miserables (2012) 3

Jan

2013

‘Who am I? 24601!’ And so, I can now die a happy man – not only was Skyfall (2012) released last year and is clearly the best Bond ever, 2013 has begun with the big-screen musical adaptation of Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil and Cameron Mackintosh‘s amazing, world-beating show Les Miserables, with The King’s Speech (2010) ...

10 Best Music Documentaries 12

Dec

2011

The music’s all that matters In association with MokumGroupie.com, Picturenose’s Colin presents his take on the finest films on music to grace the silver screen. Buena Vista Social Club (1999) Ry Cooder, who has played just about everything with just about everyone goes back to the roots of music for this wonderful outing to Cuba, ...

Lou Reed’s Berlin (2007) 3

Jun

2009

The right notes The year 1973, when Lou Reed was at the peak of his popularity, if not yet his powers, saw the artist release Berlin, an ambitious album chronicling a couple’s drug and violence-spattered descent. A critical and commercial disaster at the time, the album subsequently gained cult status over the years, eventually coming ...

Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) 1

Apr

2009

Heaven on their minds… It’s a stone-cold certainty that my Picturenose partner Colin will have a few words to say about this choice of film for a nostalgia trip – musicals are his cinematic bête noire and, as for religion, don’t even think about it. You see Col, unlike me, is not a sucker for ...

Mamma Mia! (2008) 5

Dec

2008

Super duper! Sometimes, it’s important to pay tribute to those people who really matter, particularly during the season of goodwill. It is of course for this very reason that I hereby dedicate this review to Picturenose’s other half, my very good friend Colin, and not at all because I also know that this film, by ...

Sweeney Todd (2007)

Dec

2008

Johnny be bad… Mr Depp seems singularly incapable of picking a bad role – after his triumphant conclusion to the Pirates of The Caribbean trilogy, At World’s End (2007), he reunited with Tim Burton for the first time since Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (2005) to make Sweeney Todd (2007). Burton’s output, on the other ...

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Nov

2008

Songs in the darkness Here’s a simple question for you – did anyone not cry at this film, which won the European Film Awards Best Film prize in 2000 (as well as the trifling matters of the Palme D’Or and Best Actress at Cannes)? Lars von Trier, together with a performance from Björk that simply ...