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The Chronicles of Oz in Wonderland 7/10 Guillermo Del Toro’s dark fairtytale was one of the most acclaimed films of 2006 – Alice In Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz brutally reimagined in Civil War Spain. 12-year-old Ofelia and her widowed mother, Carmen, have just moved into an abandoned mill with Ofelia’s cruel stepfather Vidal, [...]

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Like a rolling stone 6.5/10 ‘I’m Not There‘ is a wildly impressionistic film packed with visual trickery and esoteric musical and cultural references. With six characters employed intermittantly to represent different facets of the Bob Dylan’s life and work – without mentioning him by name – this is sometimes too self-consciously arty, a willfully experimental [...]

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Story of the eye 8/10 ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly‘ is an adaptation of a book many would presume to be unadaptable: former Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby’s memoirs reflecting upon his rare medical condition “locked-in syndrome”. The film begins begins daringly and terrifyingly from Bauby’s perspective, as he regains consciousness in hospital following a [...]

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Four Weddings and a Death at a Funeral 6/10 Directed by veteran comic filmmaker Frank Oz (Bowfinger, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Little Shop of Horrors) ‘Death At A Funeral‘ is a modern take on the British screwball movie. A fast-paced farce in the mold of ‘A Fish Called Wanda‘, it throws in a little ‘Four Weddings [...]

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