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The Process, The Process: Part 2
When not plundering the literary canon for potential screen gold, screenwriters are often concerned with rendering the author’s lot on screen. Three broad myths typically result: the tortured, tragic...
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Pretty Fly For A White Guy!
That rumble in the distance, dear reader, is the sound of hordes of Mrs. Edward Cullens’ on the march, armed with laptops and pitchforks. From my improvised bunker, I’m about to make an unthinkable...
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On Beards, Spangles and Stars
As the saying goes, you couldn’t make it up. Except sometimes, you should. It seems a moot point that Real Life should make good drama and very often doesn’t. Yet, those disease-of-the-week weepies,...
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Crime Doesn’t Pay, But Lego Is Forever
A little time away teaches valuable lessons, gentle reader. Not least that it really can take several months to pick up my jaw and scoop my brain up off the living room carpet. For here’s a film...
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Not Quite Two and a Half
After finally sitting through Knocked Up with every intention of reviewing it, but unable to scrape together any reaction more articulate than ‘ugh’, I reached back a little way for something to blast...
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The Process, The Process: Part 3
As we’ve already discussed, that sodden, reeking writer-as-rebel-rockstar myth just won’t die. In another film about a writer, made for a nebulous group of people who will probably never read his...
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Good Clean Genome Splicing Fun!
If you haven’t seen enough spandex and CGI yet, here’s an offering from director Matthew Vaughn (Stardust, Kick-Ass), which both is and is not another superhero film. X-Men: First Class ties well into...
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On Muffins and Muscle
As I’m one of those carping, bitter writers who’ve yet to make an actual living doing this, I’ve resigned myself to a day job. Not just any day job, but one as part of perhaps the most despised...
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Brief Encounter: Noir Romantic?
While working on that film-nerd merit-badge, I’m indulging in a favourite hobby: prodding at critic-compiled lists. We alight, then, on the much-debated Sight and Sound Poll declaring the 50 greatest...
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Go Big, Go Home?
Tucked away on Sky Arts, Hard is a chirpy, sly French-language comedy from Canal+ and writer/director Cathy Verney. It takes its cue from high concept, outwardly subversive US shows like Weeds and...
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