A Liar’s Autobiography – Competition
A Liar’s Autobiography is out on DVD out now and we’re giving away three copies and three posters.
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Though this classic Ealing drama may be rather slow going for a modern audience, there’s a humanist understanding of those struggling along in uncelebrated roles in lowly circumstances that deserves respect.
The Landlord is a real race-relations curio; a social comedy that atomizes racial tension in a post-Sixties Brooklyn neighbourhood.
On the podium at the 1968 Mexico City Games, African-American 200m medallists Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in a controversial ‘Black Salute’ protest, marking one of the most powerful and iconic images of the 20th Century.
The kids and the fans will like The Woman in Black because Daniel does well. The adults have other reasons to enjoy it, if they need them.
It is an homage, it is a paean, it is a celebration: a behind-the-screen romantic comedy that fully embodies the glory and goofiness of a neonate film industry.
It is hugely satisfying to note that Clooney looks as ridiculous as the rest of us running flat-footed in sandals – and for this alone, the film is worth a look.
This age-old formula of screwing up each other’s existence then ‘discovering’ the missing elements of one’s personality is a well-trodden and patronising path.
When Nicholas Winding Refn compels you to look, look you shall. This is that rare find: a film that’s worth paying to see properly.
As McQueen says, ‘Morality is like socialism, great idea but it doesn’t bloody work.’
Despite it being packed with thrills, spills and fight scenes, Haywire is tenuously held together by a confusing and poorly paced plot.