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"It
is perhaps ironic that the oldest written form of the English
language is the basis for a film that incorporates the very
latest of modern technology. Beowulf, the Old English epic poem,
hits the screens this week after a ten year production process.
Set in a mysterious era veiled by the
mists of time, replete with heroes and monsters, adventure and
valour, gold and glory, one exceptional man, Beowulf, emerges to
save an ancient Danish kingdom from annihilation by a disfigured
creature..." |
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"Earlier this year I was forced to make
a difficult decision. The 20th of May saw the airing
of the 400th episode of The Simpsons, a show that, up
until 1998, had represented the zenith of TV comedy and had
exercised as much a formative effect over me as my parents. With
this landmark, one fact became painfully obvious: over half of
The Simpsons is bad.
I still consider myself a Simpsons fan for much the same reason
that I am still a Wes Anderson fan. Not because I feel there is any chance of
the series getting back on track – that shark has been well and truly jumped –
but because I have enough good times in the bank..." |
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"Simply put, the first
Die Hard is the archetypal action movie. It is a film that
defines a genre. Everything about it was perfect; the iconic
hero John McClane, the villain, the location and setting, the
well-developed supporting characters, the action sequences and
the plot. The two instalments that followed were solid in a time
in which sequels were not as loosely banded around as they are
today but they could never emulate the level of simple
brilliance of the first. Since then, an action genre has
developed in which CGI sequences are not just commonplace but
dominant and the Die Hard format is constantly replicated
again and again..." |
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"Recently we lost one of
the greatest visionaries of the cinema, Ingmar Bergman. He was
a landscape artist—his landscape being the human face—and a
ruthless explorer of the human soul. Bergman was singular,
delving into the darkest regions of human being that no other
filmmaker has ever managed to ford. He used the camera like a
surgeon uses a scalpel..."
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"The
third one, Die Hard with a Vengeance or, as I like to call it,
Thank God Sam Jackson and Jeremy Irons are in the film,
had a lot of cool components in it but, in my mind and in my
heart, I always wanted to do another film to take one more shot
at it and get as close to the first film as possible. So, we
went through all three films and said “That’s good” and “That
sucks, we can’t do that” and we narrowed it down...."
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