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End of The Week Post 8 Nov 2011 | 01:17 pm
The Adventures of Tintin - 2011 directed by Steven Spielberg 9/10 The comics were childhood favourites of mine, so I was rather nervous when the cinematic adaptation was announced, but with time mor....
End Of The Week Post 31 Oct 2011 | 12:34 pm
Films seen this week: Pusher - 1996 directed by Nicolas Winding Refn 8/10 Refn is one of the most interesting directors of his generation and while Drive may very well prove to be his breakthrough f...
Day Of The Samurai 4: 13 Assassins - 2011 27 Oct 2011 | 04:09 am
13 Assassins is the greatest Samurai film to have been released recently. Not only is it a brilliant hearkening back to the glory days of the genre, but it is also one of the very best films to have b...
Return To Blogging. 24 Oct 2011 | 11:12 am
I've been meaning to post this for ages and it's just been getting longer and longer. So don't bother reading this if your not interested, I'm mainly doing it so as to keep track of all the films I wa...
Blockbuster Review: Conan The Barbarian 2011 24 Oct 2011 | 01:14 am
After the pleasant surprise of the last Hollywood blockbuster I watched and review, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, we return to yet another wholly unnecessary, entirely awful re-imagining of an 80's ...
New-to-me Directors': Pedro Almodovar 21 Oct 2011 | 10:40 am
Women On The Verge of Nervous Breakdown is the first Almodovar film I have seen. Which means I've finally decided to remedy what was a pretty obvious flaw in my film knowledge, by delving into the wor...
New-to-me Directors: Peter Greenaway 11 Oct 2011 | 09:58 am
After Sergei Parajanov, the next director I chose to turn my attention to was acclaimed British director Peter Greenaway. When it comes to British directors, most film buffs will immediately think of...
New-to-me Directors: Sergei Parajanov 8 Oct 2011 | 12:48 pm
With my previous post detailing my aim to see at least one film of the many acclaimed directors I had missed out on, I embarked on a large project. And I've decided to keep track of it through this b...
Blockbuster Review: Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes - 2011 13 Sep 2011 | 02:20 am
The more I grow as a film buff, the further I move away from Hollywood blockbusters, which nonetheless sum up the medium for the majority of people. I have discovered some wonderful works of cinema ov...
End Of The Week Post 6 Sep 2011 | 08:21 am
Sorry for my abscence, these past couple of weeks have been particularly busy for me. But I've decided to get back into blogging now and should keep it up for the whole of September at least. Films s...
