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Review of The Rover (2014)

By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 22 May 2014

For most post-apocalyptic films, the nightmare is really a disguised fantasy. In Michôd's excellent The Rover, the nightmare is real…

Review of Foxcatcher (2014)

By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 22 May 2014

Carell, in a rare but not unique departure into drama, proves himself as accomplished at tragedy as he is at comedy…

Review of Whiplash (2014)

By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 20 May 2014

Although a couple of narrative twists late on threaten to drum us into melodrama, Chazelle never misses a beat and the film builds to a cathartic…

Review of Locke (2014)

By John Bleasdale (289) for Electric Sheep (203) on 15 Apr 2014

A brilliant minimalist piece of cinéma de chambre, in this case the chamber being the titular protagonist's car…

Review of Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

By John Bleasdale (289) for Electric Sheep (203) on 01 Nov 2013

Nothing goes bang in the night. Rather there is a continuous unsettling drone screech of everything going wrong all the way through…

Review of Don't Look Now (1936)

By John Bleasdale (289) for Electric Sheep (203) on 20 Aug 2013

It is a messy examination of entropy: things fall and fall apart and we try to restore what can't be repaired and recover what has already…

Review of Don't Look Now (1973)

By John Bleasdale (289) for Electric Sheep (203) on 20 Aug 2013

It is a messy examination of entropy: things fall and fall apart and we try to restore what can't be repaired and recover what has already…

Review of All Is Lost (2013)

By John Bleasdale (289) for Electric Sheep (203) on 10 Jul 2013

A film that very eloquently provides an argument for the survival of heroes, or at least one hero…

Review of Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

By John Bleasdale (289) for Electric Sheep (203) on 17 Oct 2012

This is a film that weaves its fascinating magic and leaves all other questions for another time…

Review of Holy Motors (2012)

By John Bleasdale (289) for Electric Sheep (203) on 03 Oct 2012

I would rather go too far with Carax than stick to the comfort zone of our present cinematic environment…

Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By John Bleasdale (289) for Electric Sheep (203) on 18 Sep 2012

The film places us in a world of creeping failure, a country in irredeemable decline, a country where even the criminal fraternity lack energy,…

Review of Carnage (2011)

By John Bleasdale (289) for Electric Sheep (203) on 01 Feb 2012

Polanski's craftsmanship makes this chamber piece one of his more accomplished films…

Review of Carnage (1984)

By John Bleasdale (289) for Electric Sheep (203) on 01 Feb 2012

Polanski's craftsmanship makes this chamber piece one of his more accomplished films…

Review of Carnage (2002)

By John Bleasdale (289) for Electric Sheep (203) on 01 Feb 2012

Polanski's craftsmanship makes this chamber piece one of his more accomplished films…

Review of Carnage (2014)

By John Bleasdale (289) for Electric Sheep (203) on 01 Feb 2012

Polanski's craftsmanship makes this chamber piece one of his more accomplished films…

Review of Shame (2011)

By John Bleasdale (289) for Electric Sheep (203) on 10 Jan 2012

Fassbender's performance is at once comic and tragic, ferocious and sensitive, strange but remarkably common, the brutal buffoonery of the…

Review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

By John Bleasdale (289) for Electric Sheep (203) on 14 Sep 2011

The sense of place and time is perfect: a pre-swinging London, rain-drenched and as cold as the war being fought…

Review of Days of Heaven (1978)

By John Bleasdale (289) for Electric Sheep (203) on 31 Aug 2011

The writing is witty, the story is told with a beguiling simplicity and the period is meticulously realised, not only in farming equipment…

Review of Network (1976)

By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 29 Jun 2010

Network is an outstanding satire that has become more rather than less relevant with each passing year…

Review of The Offence (1973)

By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 22 Dec 2007

The Offence is almost the definition of murk, unrelenting and unforgiving…

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