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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 – Django Unchained (2012)

22 January 2013 Thomas Caldwell

The hero of Django Unchained is the freed slave Django Freeman (Jamie Foxx), who working as a bounty hunter gets to exact revenge on white

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Film review – Inception (2010)

19 July 2010 Thomas Caldwell

Knowing the details of how Inception unravels will not ruin the film for you but going into it as a blank slate is still the

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Film review – Shutter Island (2010)

16 February 2010 Thomas Caldwell

Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of the novel Shutter Island (by Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone author Dennis Lehane) is a film that operates on a

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Film review – Revolutionary Road (2008)

22 January 2009 Thomas Caldwell

The key line of dialogue in Revolutionary Road, the new film by director Sam Mendes, is spoken by John Givings, a mentally ill mathematician who

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