Posted by Leon Nicholson on May 31, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell taking a look at Rain Man starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise.
The Contenders
While it’s hard to find any genuine five-star movies from 1988, there are myriad four-and-a-half-star films to choose from. Picking the best of these is far from easy. High on the list would be Philip Kaufman’s The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, a powerful study of love and politics set against the Soviet invasion... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on March 8, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell taking a look at an all time classic – Taxi Driver – starring none other than Robert De Niro.
The Contenders
Fifty Shades Of Cinema reaches 1976, where the task of picking a no.1 film proves trickier than usual thanks to the sheer quality of the choices. World cinema is well represented with titles like Bernardo Bertolucci’s Novocento (aka 1900), Ingmar Bergman’s Face To Face, Luchino... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on February 22, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell taking a look at The Godfather: Part II starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
The Contenders
1974 basks in fine movies… as ever, the quest to choose a winner sees many worthy contenders relegated to joint second-place. World cinema is headed by a trio of excellent films: Akira Kurosawa’s Russian epic Dersu Uzala, Robert Bresson’s bloody Arthurian masterpiece Lancelot Du Lac, and Werner Herzog’s... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on December 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell taking a look at The Sound of Music starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
The Contenders
Although not quite as strong a year for incredible cinema as ’63 and ’64, there are still a number of films worthy of consideration for ‘Film Of The Year 1965’. Roman Polanski’s first English-language film Repulsion is a master-class in screen suspense and dread; David Lean returns to epic... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on June 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Leon Nicholson delivers his verdict on Roman Polanski’s Carnage; starring Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly.
Currently available on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Thankfully, this is not a straight to DVD movie featuring Spider-Man’s symbiote enemy, nor is it a remake of Delphine Gleize’s French film Carnages (2002). This instead is the movie adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s critically acclaimed play Le Dieu du Carnage directed... Read More
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