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Cinema
Cinema Review – Great Expectations
Great Expectations has made almost fifteen appearances on-screen, this the latest by British director Mike Newell, almost a year after its popular appearance on UK screens as a televised drama. Newell is somewhat of a marmite d...
Daily Posts
IN DEFENSE OF… KEIRA KNIGHTLEY
As an avid film fanatic, I talk about the world of movies a lot – with friends, with colleagues, with other obsessives like myself, and oftentimes the conversation turns to two strong opinions: loves and hates. Which acto...
Cinema
LFF Review – Keep The Lights On
Keep The Lights on is distant and quietly haunting, beautifully shot and a real showcase of excellent performances
Cinema
LFF Review – Blood
Blood is Nick Murphy’s follow-up to last year’s quietly eerie but underwhelming horror The Awakening, and it really feels as if the two have been painted with the same brush. Blood is dark and brooding and atmospheric, all grey...
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LFF Review – Anitviral
Brandon Cronenberg has taken a lot of clues from the early work of his father for this one. It's bold, visceral, morally challenging
Festivals
FRC Feature – London Film Festival Preview
In a couple of weeks the 56th London Film Festival will open to the public, FRC’s Teri will be there, here are her picks for what to see! First off, the top five essentials… ANTIVIRAL This is the directoral debut of...
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Cinema Review – Looper
Not as winsome as The Brothers Bloom or as young as Brick, Looper is a sophisticated, solid science fiction film, and Johnson’s best work to date.
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Cinema Review – SAVAGES
The much-anticipated SAVAGES hits the UK cinemas this weekend, but is Stone back on form? Teri takes a look Oliver Stone’s new film Savages should know not to take itself too seriously. After all, it’s a film that centres aroun...
Trailer of the Week
Trailer of the Week – Sightseers
Trailer of the week time, this week Teri takes a look at the latest from British Director Ben Wheatley, Sightseers Anticipation Level: (out of 5) 5 Trailer score: (out of 5) 4 “He’s not a person, Tina, he’s a Daily Mail reader....
Trailer of the Week
Trailer of the Week – SAVAGES
Teri is back with her latest edition to the trailer of the week series, this week SAVAGES Anticipation Level: (out of 5) 3.5 Trailer score: (out of 5) 3 Blake Lively is a bloody lucky girl, let me get that out of the way first....
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Cinema Review – Tortoise In Love
Tortoise in Love is an odd thing. Put together by an entire sleepy English village on a very low budget, it is at once absolutely applaudable and difficult to criticise. Conceived by Kingston Bagpuize’s Guy Browning, Tortoise...
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Cinema Review – Electrick Children
Electrick Children hits the cinemas this weekend, But is it worth spending your money to see? Teri takes a look What song were you conceived to? Or by, as the case may be for 15 year-old Rachel (Julia Garner), member of a large...
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Cinema Review – Ping Pong
Do you know anything about ping pong? Beyond what I’ve seen in Forrest Gump, I knew absolutely nothing. Until I watched Hugh Hartford’s moving, very often hilarious and, colour me a little bit shocked, riveting documentary Ping...
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Cinema Review – The Five Year Engagement
Released last week here in the UK, The Five Year Engagement promises a lot, but does it deliver? Teri takes a look… Judd Apatow has a magic kind of touch. As a producer, director and a writer, everything he touches usuall...
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Cinema Review – Your Sister’s Sister
Out next week is Your Sister’s Sister, Teri was lucky enough to get a screening of the film, here are her thoughts… Mumblecore has been slowly but steadily creeping its way toward wider audiences for a few years now...
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Cinema Review – Free Men
Out this week is the new film, Free Men, starring Tahir Rahim. Here are Teri’s thoughts on the film. After the rather lacklustre Black Gold, I was really looking forward to seeing Tahar Rahim in something else, something ...
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Cinema Review – The Source
Another release this week is The Source, Teri has seen it and here are her thoughts Radu Mihaileanu’s 2011 Cannes competition film The Source gets a UK release this week, and at the edge of the storm that is soon to be summer b...
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Cinema Review – American Reunion
Out last weekend here in the UK, American Reunion brings back some very familiar faces to our silver screens, Teri investigates The American Pie franchise lost its charm for me halfway through the Wedding film. Bloated, overlon...
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Cinema Review – Titanic 3D
This easter saw the re-release of James Cameron’s epic Titanic, with a splashing of 3D flavour. Teri takes a look Did I really want to see Titanic on the big screen again? Back in 1997, seeing it for the first time at the...
Daily Posts
Thursday List – Fantasy’s Best Rebels From TV and Film
In celebration of HBO’s brilliant George RR Martin adaptation Game of Thrones returning to our screens next week and the recent and overwhelming success of The Hunger Games both here in the UK and overseas, I take a look ...
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Cinema Review – The Kid With The Bike
Out this week in the UK is the hard hitting drama, Kid With The Bike, here are Teri’s findings The Dardenne brothers’ The Kid With a Bike may be the most important and best film you will see this year; it’s certainly been...
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Cinema Review – The Hunger Games
This weekend we have the release of possibly the biggest film of the year to date, The Hunger Games. Here are Teri’s thoughts on the film Every now and again there will be a film that comes along that I have high expectat...
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Midweek Mumble – Why I Love Cameron Crowe’s Love for Music
For this weeks mumble, Teri talks about something close to her heart, Cameron Crowe’s Love for Music Cameron Crowe’s movies have always been a bit hit and miss for me, but what I rate as my favourites, I rate as some of m...
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Cinema Review – Contraband
Contraband is set for release this weekend in UK, here is Teri’s thoughts on the film Former bad guy turned family man goes bad again for one last time; it’s become something of a stock plot these days, hasn’t it? Formula...
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Cinema Review – Project X
Project X hits the cinemas this weekend, Teri investigates whether this is the next generation of teen classics… In my opinion, Superbad is one of the best mainstream comedies of the last ten years. What Project X manages...
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Thursday List – Top 6 Justin Theroux Characters
For this weeks list, to honour the release of WANDERLUST her in the UK, Teri looks at her favourite Justin Theroux performances Justin Theroux is one of my favourite actors in Hollywood. Why? Oh, to list the reasons – the...
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Cinema Review – This Means War
Out this weekend in the UK is This Means War, but is this really the film we need to see BANE in? Or is it a comedy classic? Teri investigates… I have very limited patience for films that look like Pepsi commercials. From...
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Cinema Review – Black Gold
Out this week in the UK is Black Gold, here is Teri’s review of the film With the brilliant There Will Be Blood in mind and the prospect of a similar tale set on the vibant backdrop of 1930s Arabia, I entered into Black G...
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Cinema Review – Red Dog
This weeks in UK we have the cinema release of Red Dog, here is Teri’s review Red Dog has taken Australia by storm – by the critics and the punters, if the papers are to be believed. Whether it will do as well here ...
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Thursday List – Teri’s Favourite Mean Girls
This weeks list is written by Teri, and it is a subject close to her heart, MEAN GIRLS. Here are her favourite on screen meanies! ‘Young Adult’ was my last cinema trip, and I enjoyed it immensely. It was like a sequel to ...
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