Screen Adventure - by ShaunK

Black Swan is a strange and seductive creature indeed, marketed as a modern day ballet thriller in the vein of, All About Eve. Black Swan is closer to say Jacques Tourneur's Cat People, the 1942 horror film which told the eerie tale of a young bride being overcome by fear of her awakening ...

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When I first heard about the remake of True Grit, I was less than enthused. Firstly, I never was a fan of the original, which starred John Wayne, and secondly, I never was a fan of the other Coen Brothers remake, The Lady Killers. While writer, director and producers Joel and Ethan Coen, hav...

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In the words of an anonymous friend, I don't like George Clooney, but I love George Clooney films. It seems these days that a film with Clooney in it, is by default, a seal of approval. With the star of Syriana, Michael Clayton and Three Kings taking the lead role of the assassin with many nam...

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Cyberspace has certainly changed the way society functions, and certainly in the last few years, the website Facebook, has been a bigger game changer in networking and the manner by which we conduct our social interactions more than we might want to admit. Director, David Fincher's (Zodiac Fight...

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Tomas Alfredson's 2008 film Let The Right One In is set in a characterless town in Sweden, so non-descript in fact, that you even sense it's soullessness. Let The Right One In first introduces us to a 12 year old child named Oskar. A young boy who sits on his own in the snow, lost in a world of ...

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I was quite reluctant to see Let Me In, but eventually I relented. Based on the book by John Ajvide Lindqvist, and more notably a remake of the Swedish masterpiece, Let The Right One In, which told the exact same story three years before this. I have now reviewed Let The Right One In, and I foun...

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Surprisingly, I didn't think twice about being at the advanced screening for the most gloriously low brow event of the year. Having had little exposure to Jackass in the past I embraced it with open arms. I suspect that my complicity in sitting back and cracking up with the rest of the packed au...

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I hate constructive themes.....the images that stick in the mind are images of destruction. - SEIJUN SUZUKI TOKYO DRIFTER Seijun Suzuki makes the kind of films that have to be seen to be believed, deliciously oddball, garish and bizarrely funked out, Suzuki gets stuck in at taking average ...

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One has to wonder what makes humans so intrigued by gangster films - the lure of power, the rise and fall and the violent instincts that cause a man to command the kind of respect that discounts the value of other peoples lives. No matter how many psychopathic characters are portrayed on screens...

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Academy Award Winning actor Adrien Brody (The Pianist, King Kong, Predators) will be starring in the one hander, survival thriller film WRECKED. Being that Phone Booth and Cast Away left a less than stellar impression on my memory towards this genre, I was at first hesitant to cheer and spur up ...

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Every now and then, not often, a film will hit you with every one of its elements. It will burn its images into your brain and as you sit watching it, it will not let you go. Each piece of it, being striking, in a absolutely refreshing way, an example of one of these films is, 4 Months, 3 Week...

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On the cover of the Australian poster for Harry Brown, there's a quote from a review comparing it to Gran Torino, in one sense there is a connection, but in another sense Harry Brown couldn't be further from this comparison. Michael Cain (Get Carter, Alfie, Pulp) is back, as Harry Brown, finally...

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Perhaps I was setting myself up for disappointment going into The Town, considering the expectations I had. When Ben Affleck made his directorial debut on Gone Baby Gone with such electric results, you could have knocked me over with a feather. I walked into Gone Baby Gone expecting very little ...

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One of the most unique films ever made in regards to how it doesn't merely subvert genre conventions, but instead utterly disregards them, The Hit is director Stephen Frears' sublime hybrid of Gangster film meets Road movie. For what The Hit does, it's really is as close to perfect as you can ge...

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THE PREACHER THEY CALLED HIM "In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed". - WILLIAM BURROUGHS Half crazed poet, half visionary prophet, William Burroughs...

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Perhaps there's a fair reason why I Walk Alone has been forgotten and ignored for so long, it's a film that is riddled with flaws, but there are a few key qualities in I Walk Alone which make this an important and recommendable film (and you gotta love that sensationally misleading poster!). ...

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The year was 1972 and an unheard of film maker, Martin Scorsese, had just completed an exploitation movie for B-film producer Roger Corman, this would be Scorsese's second film, following Who's That Knocking At My Door Both showed some promise but failed to be taken seriously and Scorsese was s...

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At first blush, Howard Hawks's 1931 film Scarface seems dramatically out dated, but upon finally seeing it for myself, leaving my preconceived notions at the door, I realise that even if a film has dated on the surface, the impact of great story telling doesn't diminish. Scarface strides out a...

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PAINTING WITH LIGHT Anthony Mann, the Hollywood director who made over 40 films during his 30 year career, worked his way up in the studio system. First starting with B-pictures, these would lead to him to directing more prestigious and bigger films as his career progressed, such as Fall Of The R...

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