spinning man : an above average yarn

Pearce and Pierce prove a perceptive pairing in the piece-it-together murder mystery, SPINNING MAN.

Guy Pearce plays Evan Birch, a philosophy professor whose former philandering makes him the focus of a missing female student investigation headed by Pierce Brosnan’s alibi …

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damascus cover : silly syrian spy yarn

Syria-ously?

As muddled and murky as the milieu of espionage, DAMASCUS COVER suffers from a distinct lack of pace, tension and action with a bloated run time that digests the story like a Galapagos iguana rather than a Syrian gazelle.…

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braven : if its action you’re cravin’

Soon to create cinematic waves as Aquaman, Jason Mamoa is dishing out derring-do on digital and DVD in the truth in advertising action adventure drama, BRAVEN.

Mamoa plays Joe Braven, happily married lumberjack, adoring dad to a daughter, and concerned …

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6 below : miracle on the mountain

Cinema of survival gets another instalment in 6 BELOW: MIRACLE ON THE MOUNTAIN.

Based on Eric LeMarque’s remarkable book, it tells his own story of survival, both physical and psychological, when he became lost on a snowbound mountain for eight …

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david lynch : the art life

It’s forty years since Eraserhead fixed David Lynch into the cultural landscape. We know what he’s been doing since then, especially lately with the new episodes of Twin Peaks, but what came before?

DAVID LYNCH : THE ART LIFE …

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the day of the jackal : classic suspense

Forty four years on and THE DAY OF THE JACKAL is still as taut, tense and terrific as it was when released in cinemas in 1973.

Helmed by master craftsman Fred Zinnemann this original adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s best selling …

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the man who knew infinity

One of the eagerly anticipated cinema releases of this month is LION starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman. For those who missed his previous film, THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY, there is now the opportunity of catching up with this …

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