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Solaris- Steven Soderbergh
Andrei Tarkovsky’s acclaimed 1972 version of Stanisław Lem’s science-fiction novel Solaris was a film I liked to pretend I enjoyed and understood as a wanabee film-buff adolescent. With hindsight the film remained largely obscure to me then, bar some strikingly illusory imagery, particularly those in the memorable final sequence. I haven’t had [...]

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More CGI and not enough trompe l’oeil
4/10
It seems an odd condition of contemporary cinema that two films on such niche subjects could be released almost at the same time. Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Prestige’ (which I haven’t seen) and ‘The Illusionist’, both about turn of the century stage magicians, were released very close together. This has [...]

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Cloverfield, a mathematical formula
4/10
In the absence of any good films to see and, evidently, anything interesting to write about, I find myself posting a review of ‘Cloverfield’, a very forgettable but above average action blockbuster. Well, not really a review as such but rather a mathematical formula, for these types of films - due to [...]

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