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  • Double Dhamaal

    The second instalment of this madcap Bollywood trilogy is a truly bizarre film that includes some scenes that really need to be seen to be believed. It’s certainly entertaining, but perhaps not for the right reasons, and if you’re new to Bollywood please don’t judge it on the basis of this alone!


  • Doing Time for Patsy Cline

    First released fourteen whole years ago, Australian country music drama Doing Time for Patsy Cline is an aspirational story which, in all probability, won’t make you aspire to very much except maybe possessing a thorough knowledge of quantum physics so you can build a time machine and make sure it stays in 1997. That.


  • Friday Drinking Game #15 – Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

    40 years have passed since Gene Wilder made possibly the best entrance in any film ever, limping out of those factory doors to stunned silence before roly-polying his way into cinematic history. So what if Roald Dahl didn’t like it? So what if Tim Burton’s version was more faithful to the original text? Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory is still an unrivalled masterpiece, and a glorious example of the musical genre. I’ll drink to that…


  • Eaters: Rise Of The Dead

    A lo-fi gross-out horror without charm, wit or scares, Eaters: Rise Of The Dead does at least achieve one accolade: making partaking in a Nazi-zombie invasion seem preferable to watching a lo-fi gross out horror without charm, wit or scares.


  • Five Trailers That Are Better Than The Movies They Tease

    When the last trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 landed online the other week, I was temporarily lost in face-devouring wow. While I’m sure the finished film will live up to my own TOWERING expectations, it certainly wouldn’t be the first time I was enchanted by a trailer only to be left disappointingly underwhelmed by the finished film itself.






  • Poetry

    At 2000’s Cannes Film Festival, Lee Chang-Dong’s film Peppermint Candy was the talk of the Director’s Fortnight. In 2007, he assisted Jeon Do-Yeon to a Best Actress award at the same event for her role in Secret Sunshine. And last year, the writer-director picked Best Screenplay for his latest film, Poetry. Opening here on July 29th, it will be Chang-Dong’s first UK release A powerful look at an older woman’s struggle to retain both her moral compass and her sense of self – all we need say is that it’s about time.