Demob Happy

Ten past three 5/10 The release of ‘3:10 to Yuma‘, coinciding with that of ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford‘, got some critics excited about the re-birth of the Western. While two films from Hollywood in one year hardly signifies a renaissance, Ed Harris’ 2008 Western ‘Appaloosa’ certainly suggests there is [...]

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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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