Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

The design is pure Burton: the familiar twisted, claw-like trees, the fairground grotesquerie, but what’s back and what we missed recently is that he seems to be having fun.

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Shutter Island

Shutter Island

Shutter Island is a faithful, detailed movie not set in 1954, but of 1954. Scorsese is fully flexing his cinephilic chops.

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Chloe

Chloe

Whereas the original, Nathalie…, is virtually devoid of any tension and anticipation, Chloe is a Hitchcock thriller for the 21st century.

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Ondine

Ondine

Neil Jordan’s whimsical tale full of Celtic charm, Ondine, will make sure that you fall in love with Ireland all over again.

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Legion

Legion

If you haven’t quite got the message from Hollywood yet, folks, it’s this: Wake up and smell the diner coffee now, or post-apocalyptic doom awaits us all.

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Adapting any novel is a challenge; faithful readers can be very demanding, wanting films to live up to their high expectations.

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Extraordinary Measures

Extraordinary Measures

In purely cinematic terms this has more the feel of a made-for-TV weepie. One that probably won’t even make you weep.

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The Lovely Bones

The Lovely Bones

Jackson and his tag along writing team strip back the complex story of this probably unfilmable book to a core plot of whimsy and sentimentality.

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Leap Year

Leap Year

According to Irish tradition, a lady may propose to a man on the 29th February which, of course, only occurs in a Leap Year.

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The Wolfman

The Wolfman

In the same way that it’s funny seeing a dog wearing clothes, there is something amusing about a wolfed-up Benicio Del Toro still wearing a suit.

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The White Ribbon

The White Ribbon

Haneke and his wonderful cast convincingly create a richly evocative portrait, and devastatingly illustrate the harsh realities of life for rural communities in the first...

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The Hurt Locker

The Hurt Locker

The Hurt Locker is both a war movie and a character study, where the action scenes provide genuine tension and excitement, because we care about...

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Taking Woodstock

Taking Woodstock

It is 1969. And that’s important. Man is landing on the moon but in upstate New York the El Monico, an ‘International Casino and...

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Fantastic Mr. Fox

The film is more than a simple adaption of the much-loved story. It is a wholesale re-imagining of Dahl’s...

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9

9

When Tim Burton is prominent in the billing, it's safe to expect an atmospheric world peopled by shadowy yet relatable characters; it isn't, however, a...

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Jennifer’s Body

Jennifer’s Body

The film follows Jennifer as she seduces and then feeds on her male-shaped prey, in the manner of a succubus, in a bid to curb...

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Pandorum

Pandorum

Pandorum kicks off with two astronauts who wake to find themselves drifting through space with no memory of who they are or what their mission...

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Up

Up

Pixar know how to make a film that will delight every single audience member, and they do it by never talking down to their audience....

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The Time Traveler’s Wife

The Time Traveler’s Wife

Based on the best-selling novel by Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveller's Wife is a love story involving a man called Henry who has a very...

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Paper Heart

Paper Heart

Paper Heart is an ostensibly harmless indie film about love, that, when stripped of its oh-so-quirky gloss coat, reveals a far more intelligent...

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The Scarlet Tunic
The Scarlet Tunic

The Scarlet TunicOpening with swathes of Dorset countryside, men in military uniforms and the requisite curly-headed English rose, The Scarlet Tunic sets itself up to be a proper historical romance.

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The House by the Cemetery (1981)
The House by the Cemetery (1981)

The House by the Cemetery is an Italian supernatural film, directed by Lucio Fulci and originally released to a terrified public in 1981.

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