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strong>Bay rocks? Picture the scene. The remains of a particularly spicy fajita meal on the table, a cold beer, and an unwillingness to change channels. OK, apart from the fajitas, this is pretty much every evening for me. Last night, however, was different. I had seen the trailers on the telly for the past week, and [...] Just a ‘prawn’ in their game… Director Neill Blomkamp couldn’t have made a better first impression with his debut feature. Set in modern-day Johannesburg, South Africa, but in reality depicting events taking place ‘the day after tomorrow’, Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell’s screenplay depicts an ethnic-minority crisis with a twist – the inhabitants of the so-called District [...] [photopress:BodyofLies.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Not-so-great Scott As a director, Ridley Scott seems increasingly content merely to live up to some of his undeniable talent – the visionary who gave the world Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), and, more recently, Kingdom of Heaven (2005), has also been seemingly happy offering also-rans such as Hannibal (2001) and, God save us [...] [photopress:logo_bfi_1.jpg,thumb,alignleft] To celebrate the 75th birthday of the BFI Southbank, the British Film Institute asked 75 celebrities (some you may have heard of, the rest appear to be fillers) for their favourite film. The idea behind this was to produce a list of ‘classic movies of the future’. Better yet, the top five as voted by [...] |
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