Posted by Leon Nicholson on May 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell looking at Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo starring Mia Farrow and Danny Aiello.
The Contenders
1985 throws up some strong contenders for Film Of The Year. Michael J. Fox plays Marty McFly for the first time in the delightfully clever time travel comedy-adventure Back To The Future; at the other end of the generational spectrum, a bunch of elderly retirees are given a new lease of... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on April 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell looking at Fitzcarraldo starring Klaus Kinski and Claudia Cardinale.
The Contenders
1982 proves another year of bona fide cinematic gems, and the task of choosing one film greater than the rest is fraught with difficulty. Dustin Hoffman stars in the wonderful gender-bending comedy Tootsie; Harrison Ford pursues rogue replicants in the visually sumptuous Blade Runner; Arnold Schwarzenegger avenges... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on April 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment
With the dust well and truly settled after awards season, FMV Magazine’s Simon Collings asks if Daniel Day-Lewis is the greatest actor of all time?
As Daniel Day-Lewis stepped up to collect his third Best Actor award at this years Oscars, one might assume that his status as the greatest actor of all time was now complete. This record-breaking feat did put him ahead of the likes of Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in terms of trophy... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on April 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell looking at the fantatsic Raiders of the Lost Ark, starring Harrison Ford and Karen Allen.
The Contenders
1981 is a tough year to call when choosing the Film Of The Year. Mel Gibson returns as Max Rockatansky for a rare sequel-that-surpasses-the-original in Mad Max 2; several dwarves flee from God after stealing a time-travelling map in the delightful Time Bandits; Richard Dreyfuss goes to court... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on March 15, 2013 · 1 Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell looking at Star Wars, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.
The Contenders
As ever, the task of selecting a Film Of The Year presents a considerable challenge as we reach 1977. Immediately a couple of foreign titles make a strong claim for the title, one being Luis Bunuel’s tantalising That Obscure Object Of Desire, the other Paul Verhoeven’s epic Dutch war film Soldaat Van... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on March 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The Great Gatsby has been chosen to open The 66th Cannes Film Festival.
The latest adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, directed by Baz Luhrmann, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire.
This is not the first time that Luhrmann has been honoured by Cannes as Strictly Ballroom, which was screened at the festival in 1992, won the Award for the Youth for Foreign Film.
The Great Gatsby follows in the footsteps of movies such... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on March 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell taking a look at One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.
The Contenders.
1975 offers some top titles as well as being the ‘birth-year’ of the summer event movie, in this case a might fine one in the shape of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. Stanley Kubrick returns with the meticulous epic Barry Lyndon; Al Pacino’s run of brilliant movies continues with... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on February 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment
FMV Magazine’s Simon Collings gives his opinion on what he considers to be cinema’s top weepy endings.
We’ve all done it, we’ve all wept uncontrollably at the end of a movie. Whether it is the sight of two lovers departing for the final time, as in Brief Encounter (1945), or when a grown up Andy gives up his Woody and Buzz Lightyear toys at the end of Toy Story 3 (2010), what ever sets you off, cinema has the power to evoke such... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on February 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell taking a look at A Clockwork Orange directed by the great Stanley Kubrick and starring Malcolm McDowell.
The Contenders
1971 is full of strong candidates for Film Of The Year. Clint Eastwood appears for the first time as Dirty Harry and, later in the year, makes his directorial debut with the chilling Play Misty For Me; Sam Peckinpah goes for the jugular with his divisive and violent masterpiece... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on January 2, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Happy New Year everyone! With 2013 now here and the so-called misinterpreted Mayan Apocalypse failing to materialise, we enter this year with new found enthusiasm and hope. After last year’s somewhat mixed bag of films will the movies of 2013 impress or leave feelings of deflation? So what films could excite you? What are you most looking forward to? Here are just a few offerings that we probably should be looking out for.
Lincoln
One... Read More
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