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• Melancholia: 2011

  

  Melancholia is so honest, so bereft of its maker's seeming inability not to burden his films with at least one huge, garish, self-consciously edgy flaw, that... Read more

  The 09 October 2011 by   Jake Cole
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• The Tragic History Of The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour

  

  image credit In early September 1967, just a few weeks after the death of their manager, Brian Epstein, the Beatles began work on their next project - a film... Read more

  The 09 October 2011 by   Gerard
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• 50/50 (Jonathan Levine, 2011)

  

  As I walked out of 50/50, I was struck by the realization that it didn't get funny until the protagonist got cancer. If nothing else, that speaks to the... Read more

  The 08 October 2011 by   Jake Cole
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• New James Bond Film to Be Called Skyfall. What Else Do We Know?

  

  November 2012 will see the return of James Bond to our cinemas after a troubled hiatus. The excitement infecting the internet is immense; we run through the... Read more

  The 07 October 2011 by   Periscope
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• Johnny English: Reborn Deadens the Film Critics

  

  Seven years after his first outing, Rowan Atkinson’s endearingly incompetent spy Johnny English returns to our screens in Johnny English: Reborn. Here's what th... Read more

  The 06 October 2011 by   Periscope
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• My Favourite Criterion Covers

  

  The brilliant Alex Withrow of And So It Begins… just published an interesting post on his favourite Criterion Collection DVD covers. Now, I’ve always been a... Read more

  The 06 October 2011 by   Tjatkinson
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• American: The Bill Hicks Story (Matt Harlock & Paul Thomas, 2011)

  

  Bill Hicks existed and continues to live on at the fringes of mainstream acceptance, to the point that the titling of this biographical documentary seems less... Read more

  The 05 October 2011 by   Jake Cole
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• Best. Opening. Sequence. Ever.

  

  This week at Southern Vision, all the posts I’ve written have been to do with movie titles. That trend was completely coincidental, but it looks set to... Read more

  The 05 October 2011 by   Tjatkinson
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• Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 2011)

  

  "It's hard not to be romantic about baseball," Oakland As GM Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) sighs near the end of Moneyball. Clearly we've never chatted. Based on the... Read more

  The 04 October 2011 by   Jake Cole
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• Happy New Month: Films of September 2011

  

  As usually, I'm a little late with this, but who cares, I didn't have the time.After changing the name of this monthly write-up last time, I also decided to... Read more

  The 04 October 2011 by   Limette
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