Cinemascope

My movie viewing journal since May 2008

Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Rockstar [2011]

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Imtiaz Ali tried incorporating a lot of clichéd tropes into his protagonist in Rockstar to make him appear and behave like one – hippie-sty...
Sunday, 13 November 2011

The Wild Bunch [1969]

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The Wild Bunch doesn’t just remain enfant terrible Sam Peckinpah’s most renowned work, it also ranks as one of the most influential and ico...
Wednesday, 9 November 2011

Anatomy of a Murder [1959]

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Most courtroom dramas, even the good ones, relegate the legal aspects to a secondary status – using them only as a means for accentuating ch...
Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Exiled [2006]

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Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To is in love with the adage, “Slam Bam, Thank You Ma’m” (no puns intended); also, he’s attained a cult status o...
Saturday, 5 November 2011

The Fighter [2010]

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Boxing a favourite among filmmakers; after all, it is one of those rare sports that manages to capture the interplay between physical brutal...
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