Written by Dee Pilgrim
Published on 21 Feb 2010
If you like your werewolf tales full of high Victoria melodrama then The Wolfman certainly delivers all the separate ingredients.
An isolated, decaying country mansion surrounded by mysterious woods; gypsies and strange charms and curses; a beautiful damsel who must follow her heart; a black sheep son retuned to the fold of his family and all shot through a strange, stygian gloom that makes the interiors as well as the exteriors so dark as to be almost impenetrable.
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Written by Dee Pilgrim
Published on 18 Feb 2010
Once upon a time St Valentine’s Day actually had some real emotional significance.
That was until, just like this film, it turned into a cynical marketing ploy to sell chocolates, roses and pink heart-shaped cards professing that the sender feels more love for a certain significant other than anyone, anywhere in the whole, wide world has ever felt before.
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Written by Dee Pilgrim
Published on 18 Feb 2010
At long last, this is the film that is finally bringing Colin Firth the praise he really deserves as one of Britain’s most accomplished, but unsung acting talents.
Based on a Christopher Isherwood story and lovingly, reverently directed by fashion designer Tom Ford, A Single Man is a story of love, loss, mourning and eventual reconciliation of one man with his lot.
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Written by Mike Shaw
Published on 11 Feb 2010
It may have been billed as BJ Penn vs Kenny Florian, but at the end of UFC 101, all anyone was talking about was Anderson Silva taking on Forrest Griffin.
Hugely anticipated, the fight was over in just three minutes, and fan favourite Griffin was showed up by Anderson who looked superior in ever way. Dodging strikes from Griffin without breaking a sweat, Silva showed an almost prescient level of awareness. Even stranger than the way Silva channeled Neo from The Matrix, was the way Forrest waved the fight to an end after receiving what appeared to be a relatively tame jab.
Then, bizarrely, before Silva’s hand was even raised, Griffin ran from the octagon, making himself look like a fool and putting a giant dent in his integrity.
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Written by Dee Pilgrim
Published on 09 Feb 2010
Watching this movie version of South Africa’s historic win in the 1995 Rugby World Cup is a bit like watching the old style play by England; effective but stolid, unimaginative and about as exciting as a local club fixture on a rain-logged pitch.
In England, 1995 is memorable in rugby terms as the year an unstoppable juggernaut in the shape of Jonah Lomu scuppered our chances of getting to the finals by steamrollering his way through both of the Underwood brothers and most of the other England players to boot.
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