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LATEST POSTS BY Dr. Garth Twa
Clash of the Titans
Is it wrong to fault a movie like Clash of the Titans for not making sense? It feels wrong. It is wrong, however, to make a movie like Clash of the Titans uninvolving. Which it is.
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Lourdes
It’s a movie that utilizes and plays with the possibilities and conventions of cinema, that challenges your preconceived notions, that actually changes you, changes your brain, like a great piece of literature.
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Life During Wartime
Nothing is really much different, except Life in Wartime is not quite as enjoyable as Happiness. It doesn’t feel as twisted, dark, or shatteringly hilarious.
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Sylvie Testud
In an exclusive interview, Sylvie Testud talks to Garth Twa about miracles, faith and her acclaimed role in Lourdes.
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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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Edge Of Darkness
The Edge of Darkness is Mel’s first film in seven years, they announce like they’re not ashamed, and they’ve brought him out of cryonic storage to punch and pistol-whip sissies in the name of family values.
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A Single Man
With its excellent direction, performances, editing, cinematography, sound design, and dark sense of humor, this is a stunning film. I sort of miss it now that’s it’s gone, but just not enough.
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44 Inch Chest
In this world of dirty crime and pathological masculinity—where people have names like Old Man Peanut and instead of opening windows smash through them with their fists—the worst offence imaginable is cuckoldry.
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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 Bar Mitzvah Center’—in reality a crumbling toilet—is in danger.
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The Girlfriend Experience
The Girlfriend Experience is one of the more courageous and challenging films to come out this year, and the fact that it’s Soderbergh’s can give us all hope.
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ABOUT Dr. Garth Twa
Garth Twa is the award-winning writer and director of 'Pieces of Dolores' and 'Birds Die'. He has also written episodes of 'The Wright Verdicts', a programme from the makers of 24 and CSI, and is the author of the acclaimed book 'Durable Beauty'.