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Forgotten Films
Life Story (1987) There haven't been that many dramas about particular scientific discoveries because narrative films are about people and the st…
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"It's too bad she can't live, but then who does?" -- Graff, 'Blade Runner'
Film Despite my cashflow problems -- the more things change, the more they stay the same ad infinitum, I couldn't not pre-order the Blade Runne…
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a "not yet" list
Film I have a not list, or more accurately, a "not yet" list, of films which I know to be classics but which I'm deliberately ignorin…
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"Costner’s urine-drinking escapade primes audiences for abundant distasteful behavior down the road."
Film The AV Club's My Year of Flops reaches Waterworld : " Waterworld immediately throws down the gauntlet by introducing Costner’s myst…
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Forgotten Films
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) An adaptation of a 1924 short story by Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game 's claim to fame is that it was fi…
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Forgotten Films
The Tribe (1996) Not the Australian teen soap but the drama that after its first television broadcast in the mid-90s became popularly known as the p…
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Lost and Found Shopping
Film Over the years I seem to have lost a lot of writing. There are certain pieces which I've been quite proud of, which have disappeared, eit…
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Forgotten Films
The Hour of the Pig (1993) When Parisian lawyer Richard Courtois (Colin Firth) relocates to a small town hoping to 'bring the law to the people&#…
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Forgotten Films
Nina Takes A Lover (1994) Obviously one of those films were the synopsis is in the title. Laura San Giacomo (best known lately for the sitcom Just S…
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Cassandra's Dream is in fact a nightmare
Film “Cassandra's Dream, Woody's next film is slated for a UK release in the new year. Fingers crossed it's a massive success (yeah, ri…
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Forgotten Films
Love and Other Catastrophes (1996) [Time for a trip down memory lane. This Australian film prompted or at least sparked the thought of doing film st…
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Forgotten Films
Magic Town (1947) Or I can't believe it's not Frank Capra. A big city pollster (played with sharp integrity by James Stewart) realises that …
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"I thought I was the last Jew left alive. I walked out to the surface and waited for the Germans."
Film For the past few months I've been keeping a filmlog , short reviews of most of the things I've been watching, including a review as lo…
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their most famous film export
Film Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus has just opened to huge numbers in Italy with one journalist describing him as having rock st…
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Forgotten Films
The Core (2003) If I have to include one big dumb Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster action adventure film in this list it has to be The Core . Now, I kno…
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Genre Soup
Film It's fitting that final film of the late Robert Altman should bare all of the hallmarks of his directing style. Throughout his career, th…
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memory surfaced momentarily
Film In the mid-90s during my second year at university I didn’t really get on with my housemates. We parted company on a great many things, prima…
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the IMAX 3D experience at Odeon Liverpool One.
Film Tomorrow sees the launch of the IMAX 3D experience at Odeon Liverpool One and this morning I was invited to see a preview by the publicity com…
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Porno Reactions
Film It’s an all too familiar set up. A group of friends meeting in a café setting to talk about their lives as they roll on in the background. Am…
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On Pitch Perfect 2.
Film Last night after watching Pitch Perfect 2 and tweeting that I'd watched Pitch Perfect 2, a friend asked if I'd posted a review anywher…
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