I can’t believe I only just discovered Isabella Rossellini’s mental educational shorts on the subject of animal mating practises (thanks to Twitter user Manalicream for pointing me towards them, follow him [here] for tales of China, cats and other unusual bits and bobs). They are utterly insane but totally beguiling and it’s not just the [...]
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Please go and see this film. It’s quite simply magical. I really don’t want to spoil anything about it as I knew very little before seeing it last night and the way in which the entire film was presented was an utter delight. And to be honest, part of the delight came from it being [...]
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Last night I went to see The Girlfriend Experience by Steven Soderbergh at the BFI. The film itself was okay. I did find it difficult to connect with though. Beautifully shot, but there were only brief moments where you could actually sympathise with the characters. The theatre was mostly full of men, some of whom [...]
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When I was really little me and my grandmother had a Christmas Eve tradition. We would stay up really late and watch whatever Hitchcock fiolm would be on. We watched some real classics like Vertigo and Rear Window but my favourite was always The Birds. I’m not really sure why this film appealed to me [...]
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Thanks to a friend at the super-awesome Filmstar Magazine I was able to attend a preview screening of the new horror-flick Dorian Gray. I’m not a massive fan of horror flicks to be honest; they have to be really really good for me to enjoy them. And Dorian Gray fell into the exact same trap [...]
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I think I first fell in love with Charlotte Gainsbourg in The Science Of Sleep. I definitely fancied her way more than I fancied Gael García Bernal, which is saying something as he’s pretty hot. I’m not quite sure what it is about her but she manages to be beautiful and accessible all at once. [...]
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