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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Animation, David Bradley, Ewan McGregor, Fantasy, Guillermo del Toro, Pinocchio
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Review: Birds of Prey (2020)
DC now have their DEADPOOL. That’s the headline, that’s the tone of BIRDS OF PREY (AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN) but it’s more than that on its own terms as well. For all the sweary shenanigans and … Continue reading
May the Fourth Review: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
Yeah, that’s right, for Star Wars Day 2019 I’m reviewing this one. It’s not that bad. Alright it’s bad, but it’s not that bad. George Lucas knew what he wanted to achieve with THE PHANTOM MENACE, his vision remains clear … Continue reading
Review: Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Even for Disney, it’s an audacious move to out-musical your own musical. THE JUNGLE BOOK upped the spectacle and downplayed the songs, CINDERELLA was out to make sense of its protagonist in her time and place and again skipped the … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Alan Menkin, Beauty and the Beast, Bill Condon, Cinderella, Dan Stevens, Disney, Emma Watson, Ewan McGregor, IMAX, Jean Cocteau, La Belle et la Bête, Luke Evans, The Jungle Book, TIm Rice
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Review in Brief: Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
OUR KIND OF TRAITOR has a series of stunningly pretty images to open with: sparkling snowscapes, dappled sunlight, a slow-motion ballet performance. Even the death that follows this montage is beautifully composed, as horrible as the act remains. The visual … Continue reading
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Tagged Ewan McGregor, John le Carré, Our Kind of Traitor, Spy Film, Thriller
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Review: T2 Trainspotting (2017)
T2 TRAINSPOTTING was never going to match its predecessor. Lightning, we are told, doesn’t strike twice. TRAINSPOTTING captured the zeitgeist and summed up so succinctly and stylishly the people and culture of Britain in the 1990s. We fell instantly in … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Black Comedy, Danny Boyle, Drama, Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, James Cosmo, John Hodge, Johnny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Scot Greenan, T2 Trainspotting, Trainspotting
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20 Years On: Trainspotting (1996)
It’s that time again: enough sand has passed through the hourglass of eternity to discuss another classic in retrospective fashion. This week marks the 20th Anniversary of TRAINSPOTTING, Danny Boyle’s striking adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s game-changing novel about Edinburgh heroin … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Film, Film, Film Feature, Film Review
Tagged Black Comedy, Classic Film, Danny Boyle, Drama, Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Film, Iggy Pop, Irvine Welsh, John Hodge, Leftfield, Lou Reed, Masahiro Hirakubo, Movies, Robert Carlyle, Trainspotting, Underworld
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Review: Mortdecai (2015)
MORTDECAI may well be not only the worst film Johnny Depp has ever starred in, but also the most painful performance of his career as well. A farce set in the art world’s underbelly in an ambiguous decade, we follow … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Comedy, David Koepp, Ewan McGregor, Farce, Fast Show, Film, Gwyneth Paltrow, Indiana Jones, Johnny Depp, Mortdecai, Movies, Paul Bettany, Paul Whitehouse
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Review: Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
It really says something when the best thing in your movie is a scene where a giant picks his nose then wraps Ewan McGregor in pastry. It’s quite frankly mind-boggling why most of the decisions in Bryan Singer’s fantasy romp … Continue reading
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