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[photopress:story.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Magic circle Don’t you just love movies that play games? Joseph L Mankiewicz’s Sleuth (1972) obviously springs to mind, as does the more recent Memento (2002), directed by the same wunderkind, Christopher Nolan, who here takes us on a playful but dark journey into the disappearances and deception of turn-of-the-20th century magicians. The title refers to the [...] [photopress:Romeo_Juliet_1996_1200_l.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Hard on Baz’s Bard [photopress:legs.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Shit and run It really must have seemed like a great idea at the time. Quentin Tarantino teamed up with Sin City director Robert Rodriguez for a 70s sleaze-fest double bill, Grindhouse, which combines Rodriguez’s zombie-schlock-splatter extravaganza Planet Terror (2007) with Tarantino’s offering, Death Proof, plus several fake 70s-style trailers. Guess what? In what must be a [...] Sing-along-a-Bond? Don’t pass this Buck Comic-book history I took my 10-year-old son to see this last week. He’s a fairly astute and mature boy, so I wasn’t too worried about some of the battle scenes that depict violent death and bloody retribution, but if you’re a parent, you may want to do a little research first. There really isn’t a huge [...] Blues heaven A policeman’s lot is quite a gruesome one Another slab of in-your-face comic genius from Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and many of the usual suspects from Spaced. Copper-bottomed comedy Messrs Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright are fast becoming the benchmark for what it means to be funny – comic actor and writer Pegg first paired up with writer/director Wright for the sensational Spaced sit-com, and they have subsequently worked together on the marvellous ‘not with a bang but a belly-laugh’ zombie pastiche, [...] |
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