Category: Film
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The Women, The Words, His World & His Work.
Yesterday I sat in my favourite Picture House and watched a documentary about my favourite film maker and writer. Robert B. Weide’s highly anticipated documentary, Woody Allen: A Documentary rolled in front of me and I drifted away for two hours into my favourite world. Now, it is hard to review a documentary that was never going to…
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Absence of Magic.
I’ve just got back from watching Magic Mike. It turned out to be a dreary and heartless piece of cinema. I was so disappointed. I am not certain of what I was really expecting but it was a complete shambles. If you are going to see this film for a giggle and to peek at some muscles…
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Thrills and Trills.
After recently reviewing The Dark Knight Rises, I began to think about trilogies in a lot more depth. I suddenly realised how few I had ever finished watching. This entry is almost a confession. My version of “I Have Never Seen Star Wars” if you will. However, I have seen Star Wars but I have…
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Rise from the Shadows.
I’ve finally got round to seeing The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan’s final segment of his modernised super-hero trilogy. I hadn’t allowed myself to get too excited about this as I was dreading being let down. I most certainly was not. It is by no means the best of the three instalments. I am…
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Turn it off.
If you are foolish enough to turn up late to your local multiplex chain, for a screening you have paid a lot of money for, on a Sunday night, then why make the experience even more frustrating for everybody else who is forced to sit with you, in that screen, for over three hours. I…
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Addicted to Posters.
I have returned to my house in Leeds today. The day has been spent putting up photographs and posters and making my room look more homely. I have put up my three posters. They are as follows: I was looking around my room and realised that this collection of posters completely sums up…
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Doubting the Monsters.
I recently saw the trailer for the upcoming prequel to Pixar’s Monsters Inc, Monsters University. Unfortunately, I was not overly impressed. I know it’s just a trailer, only a minute or so in length, and I can’t form an opinion until I’ve seen the film; however, seeing this trailer has made me feel anxious about…
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You’re Going to Need a Bigger Audience.
When re-releases come to the cinemas, I always seem to miss them. I missed Jurassic Park, then I missed Ghostbusters. I was not going to miss Jaws. Not a chance. Director Steven Spielberg inside “Bruce” on the set of Jaws 1975 I finally saw it last night and I am so glad that I did.…
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Virgin of Literature.
I have recently finished reading The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. A splendid novel that really haunted me. I’ve been thinking a lot about the film adaptation. I watched it a couple of years ago and my memory of it is slightly blurry. However, I remember being impressed and moved by it. I intend to…
Hannah McHaffie 