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Films I loved in November 2014

2 December 2014 Thomas Caldwell

The latest film by brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, Two Days, One Night, is similar to their previous film The Kid with a Bike, where they

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Film review – Source Code (2011)

7 May 2011 Thomas Caldwell

Free will, alternate realities, memory, identity, the struggle between the needs of the individual versus the needs of the whole and the implications of trying

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Film review – Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)

23 May 2010 Thomas Caldwell

Against many expectations, when Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films first teamed up to make 2003’s theme-park ride adaptation Pirates of the Caribbean: The

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Film review – Brothers (2009)

21 March 2010 Thomas Caldwell

The American remake of Susanne Bier’s 2004 Danish film Brothers (Brødre) is reasonably faithful to Bier’s original film. Both films are centred on three characters:

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DVD review – Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut (2001), Region 4, Madman

1 March 2005 Thomas Caldwell

The original Donnie Darko is a wonderfully atmospheric film that explores reality and insanity within a psuedo-science-fiction/teen-film framework. Writer/director Richard Kelly’s ambiguous debut film is

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