Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

By Garth Twa

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

By Garth Twa

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

By Dan Higgins

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

By Lesa Keddie

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

By Lesa Keddie

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

By Amelia Butterly

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

By David Hudson

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

By Simon Lewis

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

By Tom McGoldrick

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

By Dan Higgins

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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