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Juno - Jason Reitman
For a long time I resisted watching Jason Reitman’s ‘Juno’. On paper it was the kind of film I avoided like a virus, yet reviewers kept telling me to see it. Even my most trusted blog buddy William Rycroft gave it the thumbs up, albeit with the helpful disclaimer “many will find [...]

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The Darjeeling feeling
5/10
Wes Anderson’s offbeat style of filmmaking is definitely an acquired taste. Highly stylised - his saturated use of colour borders on the psychedelic - but with seemingly improvised dialogue, it is always hard to know how seriously to take his films. The Darjeeling Ltd epitomises this, combining the kind of tongue-in-cheek [...]

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