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  • The Brothers Bloom DVD Review

    The Brothers Bloom DVD Review

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    2009, Optimum Home Entertainment Director: Rian Johnson Cast: Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz, Robbie Coltrane, Rinko Kikuchi Script: Rian Johnson You have to admire writer/director Rian Johnson’s propensity for overreaching. His first movie, Brick, was a high school murder mystery which channelled the noir sensibilities of Hammett and Chandler, and even if its askew…

  • Ireland Goes Post-Apocalyptic in ‘One Hundred Mornings’

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    When you think of Ireland, your mind generally tends to conjure images of untainted green landscapes, rainy afternoons and pallid, red-headed stereotypes. Conor Horgan, Katie Holly and the cast of One Hundred Mornings, however, think the Emerald Isle could do with a bit of a post-apocalyptic makeover. The crew are bringing their Workbook Discovery and…

  • Mother (2009) DVD Review

    Mother (2009) DVD Review

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    2009 Director: Bong Joon-ho Script: Bong Joon-ho, Park Eun-kyo Cast: Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin, Jin Goo Hell hath no fury like a mother scorned in this peculiar South Korean film from Bong Joon-ho, the director of The Host. While this quiet tale of a woman intent on proving her son’s innocence after he’s convicted of…

  • The Disappearance of Alice Creed Film Review

    The Disappearance of Alice Creed Film Review

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    2009 Director, Writer: J Blakeson Cast: Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston, Eddie Marsan Like criminals Vic and Danny upon the unsuspecting Alice, The Disappearance of Alice Creed creeps up on its unsuspecting audience. Director J Blakeson’s low budget debut opens with two nondescript males (Eddie Marsan and Martin Compston) silently shopping for tools, lining the inside…

  • Secret Cinema Announces “Most Ambitious Event to Date”

    Secret Cinema Announces “Most Ambitious Event to Date”

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    Wow. Secret Cinema continues to grow, in the face of fears that cinema attendance will eventually succumb to cheaper DVDs and internet piracy. It’s a phenomenon that seems to have spread from word of mouth and movie mag mentions to national media attention in just over a year. I for one am not surprised. Not…

  • Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge DVD Review

    Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge DVD Review

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    2008, Optimum Home Entertainment Director: Jérôme Salle Writer: Julien Rappeneau Cast: Tomer Sisley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélanie Thierry, Bojana Panic, Karel Roden, Miki Manojlovic, Benedict Wong With western economies still struggling to recover from one of the fiercest recessions in the last hundred years, Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge, the movie adaptation of the popular billionaire…

  • Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge DVD Released 23rd August

    Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge DVD Released 23rd August

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    Optimum Home Entertainment has announced that the 2008 French action flick Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge will be released in the UK on DVD on the 23rd August. This is just one of several adaptations of Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme’s popular and enduring Belgium comic character of the same name, who also saw a…

  • Dogtooth Film Review

    Dogtooth Film Review

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    2009 Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Writers: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou Cast: Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Christos Passalis, Anna Kalaitzidou Everything unknown is taken for magnificent, in this surreal and downright warped Greek movie that immediately evokes Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke, but is no less distinctive. Bar one home dentistry scene…