25.4.15

I Kill Giants

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I read this in far from ideal circumstances – commuting for work or almost asleep at the end of the day, and with a long break before reachi...

Avengers: Age of Ultron

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Whedon acquits himself well handling what is an organisational nightmare of a film. With millions having seen at least some Marvel Studios ...
20.4.15

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

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Mamoru Oshii's sequel to the phenomenally successful Ghost in the Shell , which I praise to the skies here . This second film departs qu...
18.4.15

Suspiria

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"In fact if you want to give a deeper reading of the film, it can be seen as a vaguely lesbian story; where lesbianism has a certain im...
13.4.15

Tristana

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Quite a sprawling and indulgent picture, unlike the last two Buñuel films I've seen and blogged. It's shot in Toledo and set in th...
12.4.15

Hiroshima Mon Amour

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I thought the first words of the film – "you saw nothing in Hiroshima" – may be intended to console rather than accuse, since it p...
10.4.15

Q1 2015 favourite tracks

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My picks from soundcloud over the past three months, which have otherwise largely been spent catching up to things I've missed from 2014...
30.3.15

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

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A very long adaptation of a Japanese fairytale from Studio Ghibli. The court vs country dichotomy it sets up – whereby the titular heroine ...
25.3.15

Belle De Jour

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The shot that encapsulates the whole film might be the one establishing the final scene, in which Séverine's house is overlayed with the...