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Blu-Ray Review: Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (Criterion Collection)

Akira Kurosawa is widely considered one of the greatest film-makers in Japanese cinematic history. In 1990, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honoured his contribution to worldwide cinema.…

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Blu-Ray Review: Punch Drunk Love (Criterion Collection)

Amongst the film-going and critical intelligentsia, Paul Thomas Anderson is vying with Terrence Malick for the title of greatest living American auteur. During the late ‘90s, Boogie Nights and Magnolia…

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Blu-ray Review: Day For Night

Of all the film directors who have ever lived there’s probably none with a greater love of cinema than François Truffaut. The great French auteur simply lived, breathed and ate…

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Blu-ray Review: Don’t Look Back

Musical documentaries tend to fall into two camps. Normally, they’re retrospective stories of band or artists, using interviews and archive footage. There’s also the concert film, which nowadays tend to…

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DVD Review: The Emigrants/The New Land (Criterion)

In every country there is a book which every schoolchild knows or an author who’s embedded in the fabric of the culture. The Emigrants Suit, written by Wilhelm Moberg, comprises…

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Blu-ray Review: The Cat People

Whilst his name will not be familiar to many, Val Lewton had a profound influence on the way movies are made. Starting with Jack Tourneur’s The Cat People, he produced…

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Blu-Ray Review: The In-Laws

Modern cinema is littered with gross-out and offensive comedies. We’ve become studio-fed by Apatow, Rogen, Rudd, Mottola, Macfarlane and the like. And whilst it’s brilliant to see actresses finally being…

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Blu-ray Review: Dr Strangelove: or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Stanley Kubrick is without doubt one of the greatest film makers of the 20th Century. Whilst the image of Alex or his fellow droogs causing havoc in A Clockwork Orange…

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Blu-ray Review: Burroughs: The Movie (Criterion Collection)

William S Burroughs was one of the leading players of the Beat Generation. Along with Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke and Jack Kerouac they changed the narrative around 1950s America for…

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Blu-ray Review: Gilda (Criterion Collection)

In the golden days of Hollywood films some of the most bankable stars were those who were given the label of ‘Screen Goddess’. The Studios’ response to the horrors of…

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