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by Simon de Bruyn, February 10, 2012 11:20 AM
With six weeks to go until the March 22 release of The Raid (yep, in Australia we get things one day early folks) Madman has released its own poster to promote Gareth Evans' rollicking action blasterpiece. A horrible pun, sure, but...
by Matthew Lee, February 5, 2012 9:38 PM
Going by the feverish buzz around city planning documentary Urbanized (the third of Gary Hustwit's recent series of films on modern design, after Helvetica and Objectified), you could be forgiven for expecting some kind of rapturous epiphany on how the...
by Matthew Lee, February 5, 2012 9:38 PM
The opening sequence in Paddy Considine's brilliant Tyrannosaur is a model of cinematic efficiency so concise they ought to teach it in film school. Revisiting the events of Considine's original short Dog Altogether and turning them into a full-blown feature,...
by Simon de Bruyn, January 28, 2012 10:01 AM
If the mysterious foreign voiceover and ominous drumming is any sign, I'm seriously hoping there's a moment in The Hunter where Willem Dafoe comes across the mysterious Tasmanian tiger and it turns, grins, and says, "Chaos reigns!" Regardless, I've heard this...
by Peter Gutierrez, December 27, 2011 1:45 PM
I'll admit it, I'm a curmudgeon where coming-of-age films are concerned. Even when they're widely acclaimed, as in Lone Scherfig's An Education, I often find their points too facile, their emphases clouded by an adult perspective that's slyly looking back...
by Peter Gutierrez, December 22, 2011 5:30 PM
Is there anything more disappointing than a restrained period drama that simmers... simmers... and then cools to the point where it reaches room temperature?Actually, I suppose there are many things in the world more disappointing than that -- I'm just...
by Matthew Lee, December 18, 2011 9:43 PM
At first glance Alejandro Brugués's zombie comedy Juan of the Dead doesn't sound too promising. Unless you're a devoted follower of the diverse strands of Latin American cinema the idea of an unknown director shooting an affectionate tribute to Edgar...
by Matthew Lee, November 27, 2011 11:13 PM
A young man desperately in need of a purpose ends up taking a job dealing with the recently deceased, collecting the dead and making them look the best they can for their final journey - in the course of which...
by Dustin Chang, October 31, 2011 6:00 PM
Herzog continues his Americana with Into the Abyss, a documentary about Death Row. It is perhaps the most somber Herzog film in years. There have been similar death penalty issue films like Errol Morris's Thin Blue Line, and more recently...
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by Ben Umstead, October 14, 2011 11:32 AM
Shame -- a short, compact word, one that we seem to forget the full force of quite often. Well, perhaps Steve McQueen's follow-up to his equally simple-titled-but-loaded Hunger can remind us just how hard hitting a word it can be....
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