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Better Things
Dir: Duane Hopkins. 2008. UK. 93minsCoping as best they can, the perpetually glum inhabitants of a rural town in the South West of England feel emotionally isolated, verging towards distraught in Better Things. Permeated by dispassionate drug use depicted without a shred of glamour, writer-director Duane ...
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Four Nights With Anna (Cztery Noce Z Anna)
Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski. France-Poland. 2008. 93mins.Veteran Polish auteur Jerzy Skolimowski crafts a delicate tragi-comic parable of love in his first film since 1991’s Ferdydurke. But though this story of a maladjusted misfit’s voyeuristic passion for a nurse has small moments of delight, this doesn’t stop it ...
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Sex And The City
Dir: Michael Patrick King. US. 2008. 140mins.Four years after the series finale of HBO's iconic Sex And The City, the eagerly-awaited film version arrives with much of the spirit and humour intact, a juicily melodramatic plotline and more over-the-top fashion than is decent for one movie. Fans of the series, ...
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Blindness
Dir: Fernando Meirelles. 2008. Brazil-Canada-Japan. 118mins.In Blindness, Fernando Meirelles valiantly attempts to pin down Nobel laureate Jose Saramago’s largely metaphorical work of fiction for the big screen: by giving the audience eyes on a world suddenly hit by a plague of blindness. The result makes for ...
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The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Dir: Andrew Adamson. 2008. UK/US. 144mins.The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian takes the youthful characters of its predecessor, The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, and throws them into a breathtaking landscape, where they battle for power with a new cast of villains. If crossbows, strange creatures, and a squeaky-clean ...
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The Foot Fist Way
Dir: Jody Hill. US. 2008. 87 mins.Ascendant US funnyman Danny McBride stars in this comedy about a small-town martial arts instructor - an amiable but meandering tale that wears out both its threadbare premise and welcome long before the end of its running time. The Foot Fist Way (the title ...
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What Happens In Vegas
Dir. Tom Vaughan. US. 2008. 98 mins.A bit like Las Vegas itself, frenetic romantic comedy What Happens In Vegas offers some diversions that are mildly entertaining but really just postpone an inevitable outcome (in Vegas the house always wins and in rom-coms the bickering stars always get together in the ...
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Speed Racer
Dirs: Andy & Larry Wachowski. US. 2008. 130 mins.Tatsuo Yoshida's beloved 1960s anime TV series finally gets the big-screen treatment, after many false starts, from the Wachowski Brothers who deliver a large-scale assault on the senses which is as exhausting as it is entertaining. Pitched tonally to young kids, but ...