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Review of "Mirror"  

by: Roger

Mirror  

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on: 13 Dec 2012

Review extract: long and difficult

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Review of "Kes"  

by: Roger

Kes  

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on: 20 Nov 2012

Review extract: It has held up well

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Review of "Paprika"  

by: Roger

Paprika  

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on: 15 Oct 2012

Review extract: Psychedelic trippy fantasy shown here as part of a season of Philip K Dick related films quite rightly. ...

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Review of "Anna Karenina"  

by: Roger

Anna Karenina  

⭐⭐⭐

on: 03 Oct 2012

Review extract: Very interesting style of film making - very good flowing between scenes and vignettes creating a uniquely filmic vision. ...

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Review of "Le Harve"  

by: Roger

Le Harve  

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on: 25 Sep 2012

Review extract: Fantasy realism - stylised and gritty, are we in the 50s or the noughties. ...

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Review of "The Salt of Life"  

by: Roger

The Salt of Life  

⭐⭐⭐

on: 23 Sep 2012

Review extract: Billed as a comedy, but not in the laugh out loud sense. ...

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Review of "Headhunters"  

by: Roger

Headhunters  

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on: 11 Sep 2012

Review extract: Brilliant convoluted tale of Nordic darkness - OTT in the resilience to violence (rather like Essential Killing - is this a modern theme?)

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Review of "Essential Killing"  

by: Roger

Essential Killing  

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on: 26 Aug 2012

Review extract: gripping

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Review of "The Princess of Montpensier"  

by: Roger

The Princess of Montpensier  

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on: 05 Aug 2012

Review extract: Simply excellent, atmospheric and engaging, interesting characters and the story brilliantly told/observed. ...

Full review 35 words

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Review of "Sherlock Holmes - a game of shadows"  

by: Roger

Sherlock Holmes - a game of shadows  

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on: 13 Jul 2012

Review extract: love the relationship between Holmes & Watson and the slightly Withnail & I seediness of it. ...

Full review 46 words

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Review of "Super 8"  

by: Roger

Super 8  

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on: 01 Jul 2012

Review extract: engaging and entertaining, moves along at a good pace as the nature of the 'monster' is gradually withheld until the redemption at the end

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Review of "Potiche"  

by: Roger

Potiche  

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on: 16 Jun 2012

No summary or description available

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Review of "Solaris"  

by: Roger

Solaris  

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on: 02 Jun 2012

No summary or description available

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Review of "The Guard"  

by: Roger

The Guard  

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on: 12 May 2012

No summary or description available

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Review of "Stroszek"  

by: Roger

Stroszek  

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on: 13 Apr 2012

Review extract: Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold.

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Review of "The Enigma of Kasper Hauser"  

by: Roger

The Enigma of Kasper Hauser  

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on: 09 Apr 2012

No summary or description available

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Review of "The Kite Runner"  

by: Roger

The Kite Runner  

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on: 20 Mar 2012

No summary or description available

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Review of "Bread and Roses"  

by: Roger

Bread and Roses  

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on: 17 Mar 2012

Review extract: Interesting but not as good as Land and Freedom

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Review of "Milk"  

by: Roger

Milk  

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on: 11 Mar 2012

Review extract: Good story well told

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Review of "Fanny & Alexander"  

by: Roger

Fanny & Alexander  

on: 03 Mar 2012

Review extract: Overlong and typically Bergman ponderous but with a few compelling moments and atmosphere

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Review of "The Artist"  

by: Roger

The Artist  

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on: 01 Mar 2012

Review extract: a reasonable film made good by the presence of a Jack Russell co-star

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Review of "Source Code"  

by: Roger

Source Code  

⭐⭐⭐

on: 28 Feb 2012

Review extract: Entertaining, tropes from many previous films (memento, sliding doors,) not too aggressive violent or soppy romantic although could have been either.

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Review of "Bennys Video"  

by: Roger

Bennys Video  

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on: 29 Jan 2012

Review extract: A film about alienation caused by a failure to engage with reality preferring to mediate it through the screen

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Review of "Land and Freedom"  

by: Roger

Land and Freedom  

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on: 07 Jan 2012

Review extract: Very well told compleeing story about how it descends into factionalism on the left unable to defeat the cooperation between fascists on the right. ...

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Review of "Fata Morgana"  

by: Roger

Fata Morgana  

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on: 01 Jan 2012

Review extract: Entrancing and engrossing. ...

Full review 33 words

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