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Film review – The Great Gatsby (2013)

31 May 2013 Thomas Caldwell

Baz Luhrmann’s attempt to transform F Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal 1925 American novel into a crowd-pleasing spectacle film is admirable if not always successful. It is

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Film review – Shame (2011)

6 February 2012 Thomas Caldwell

In The Lost Weekend (1945) Billy Wilder portrayed alcoholism as a serious affliction rather than a delightful and humorous eccentricity. In The Man with the

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Film review – Drive (2011)

26 October 2011 Thomas Caldwell

In this unofficial prequel to Blade Runner Ryan Gosling plays an early replicant model who yearns to be human. He’s a machine programmed as part

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Film review – Never Let Me Go (2010)

21 March 2011 Thomas Caldwell

Early in Never Let Me Go, the seemingly privileged English boarding school children learn what it is that makes them different. It’s not a moment

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Film review – Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)

19 September 2010 Thomas Caldwell

Michael Douglas’s Gordon Gekko character from Oliver Stone’s 1987 film Wall Street embodied capitalism at its worst. Gekko was a corporate raider whose desire to

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Film review – An Education (2009)

23 October 2009 Thomas Caldwell

Based on the autobiography of British journalist Lynn Barber and adapted by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy), An Education is a coming-of-age film

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