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Review of Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

By Kieran O (47) on 27 May 2009

A key influence on Tarantino-era cinema with its fast cutting and hip amorality (this is the movie that upped the ante on acceptable levels…

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Review of The Elephant Man (1980)

By Kieran O (47) on 27 May 2009

If one was to turn on David Lynch's The Elephant Man midway through, without knowing what it was, one might be startled at the appearance of…

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Review of Sunset Boulevard (1950)

By Kieran O (47) on 27 May 2009

This is such a great film on so many levels I can't really settle on where to begin…

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Review of The Long Good Friday (1980)

By Kieran O (47) on 17 May 2009

When thinking back over the decades of British gangtser films, The Long Good Friday stands out in memory…

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Review of Mean Streets (1973)

By Kieran O (47) on 07 May 2009

Shot with a swagger, Scorsese's breakthrough film blazed with rock 'n' roll energy, rebooting the sound of cinema…

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Review of Without a Paddle (2004)

By Kieran O (47) on 05 May 2009

Different/Weird/Strange/Not Bad.... Kinda Like, but didn't like…

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Review of Rashomon (1950)

By Kieran O (47) on 02 May 2009

The film that woke up the world to Japanese cinema, this is a still-effective 'gimmick' melodrama about a rape-murder seen from four different…

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Review of On the Waterfront (1954)

By Kieran O (47) on 01 May 2009

Well, there is the famous speech, but there's also the movie surrounding it…

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Review of The Monster Squad (1987)

By Kieran O (47) on 30 Apr 2009

I have wanted to see this movie for at least 20 years and sadly it was not worth the wait…

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Review of Ran (1985)

By Kieran O (47) on 29 Apr 2009

I know this is a classic, and I really liked King Lear, but when I saw this in high school...I couldn't stand it…

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Review of The Wolf Man (1941)

By Kieran O (47) on 25 Apr 2009

This is in my opinion the greatest of the universal cycle…

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Review of The Bad Seed (1956)

By Kieran O (47) on 14 Apr 2009

Creeped the hell out of me…

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Review of Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)

By Kieran O (47) on 11 Apr 2009

Very well made- if initially slow- film, with a wonderful third act, that's the best Frankenstein third act save the Whale originals, where…

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Review of Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

By Kieran O (47) on 10 Apr 2009

Once Upon a Time in America is probably the most difficult film I have ever encountered in terms of completing an overall accurate cinematic…

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Review of Double Indemnity (1973)

By Kieran O (47) on 07 Feb 2009

For those of you who have never heard of this, the best way I can describe it is it's one of those films that you accidently stumble across…

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Review of Double Indemnity (1944)

By Kieran O (47) on 07 Feb 2009

For those of you who have never heard of this, the best way I can describe it is it's one of those films that you accidently stumble across…

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Review of La Haine (1995)

By Kieran O (47) on 01 Feb 2009

Tapping into that raw, angry energy that permeated the Gen X-ers of the 1990s as they began to grow up in a world of economic hardship, institutionalised…

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Review of The Italian Job (1969)

By Kieran O (47) on 30 Jan 2009

Classic heist film with Michael Caine leading a plot to steal $4 million of gold bullion from an armoured convoy in Turin…

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Review of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

By Kieran O (47) on 27 Jan 2009

Oikein hyva Film-noir…

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Review of The Ipcress File (1965)

By Kieran O (47) on 24 Jan 2009

Another classic from Michael Caine with this sort of James Bond theme but in my opinion has a better score from John Barry, this should have…

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