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Dracula

Halloween Special - Horror Movies

16 Oct 2008

It’s Halloween, so it must be time for the latest instalment in the most extreme survival horror series out there: Saw V. More than a simple gorefest, there’s a cruel intelligence at play with its villain, Jigsaw, the latest in a long line of horror…

Charles Burns - Fear(s) of the Dark

Charles Burns - Fear(s) of the Dark

16 Oct 2008

The wildly imaginative and scary animated French portmanteau horror movie Fear(s) of the Dark was made by six European and American cartoonists working with professional animators. The most notable of those cartoonists is Charles Burns, who is a legend…

Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading

(3 stars)16 Oct 2008

THRILLER/COMEDY Modern idiocy and bleak humour are the order of the day in the Coen’s latest – a reworking (conscious or otherwise) of Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of An Author. Foul-mouthed CIA analyst Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich…

Young@Heart

Young@Heart

(5 stars)16 Oct 2008

DOCUMENTARY In Western society we feel awkward and ashamed about the elderly. Seeing an OAP struggling down the street causes us to experience sympathy for their plight and terror that we are witnessing a glimpse of our own fragile futures. But in…

Eagle Eye

Eagle Eye

(3 stars)16 Oct 2008

THRILLER Reuniting the talent from last year’s sleeper hit Disturbia and featuring a similar surveillance theme, Eagle Eye is a busy conspiracy thriller featuring manboy-of-the-moment Shia LaBoeuf and directed by DJ Caruso. With two major franchises…

Fear(s) of the Dark

Fear(s) of the Dark

(4 stars)16 Oct 2008

ANIMATION/MYSTERY The Gallic term ‘outre’, meaning beyond or excessive, perfectly describes this imaginatively conceived and immaculately executed French language portmanteau horror. Much of its impact is derived from its unique nature: the…

Ghost Town

Ghost Town

(3 stars)16 Oct 2008

COMEDY/ROMANCE Middle-aged ‘smock-wearing tooth jockey’ (dentist) Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) is a hateful runt of a man. He lives a life as contained as it is misanthropic. After going into hospital for an endoscopy, Bertram starts to see dead…

Igor

Igor

(3 stars)16 Oct 2008

ANIMATION/COMEDY It’s a tough life for hunchbacked assistants of mad scientists. Igor (voiced by John Cusack) ekes out his precarious existence as humble servant to the sinister Dr Glickenstein (John Cleese), an evil genius set on winning the annual…

Tarsem Singh

Profile - Tarsem Singh

16 Oct 2008

Name Tarsem Singh Born 6 May 1961 Background Against the wishes of his pilot father, who wanted him to attend Harvard Business School, Singh made his way instead to Los Angeles and won a scholarship to the Art Center College of Design. After…

The Rocker

The Rocker

(2 stars)16 Oct 2008

COMEDY Twenty years on from being dumped by big haired ‘soft-cock rock’ 80s legends Vesuvius, drummer Fish (Rainn Wilson) still burns with the indignation of the holy. While crashing at his sister’s house he agrees to be the drummer for his nephew’s…

Also Released - Film

16 Oct 2008

Incendiary (15) 99min •• Very ordinary adaptation of Chris Cleave’s novel (released two days before the 2005 London bombings) about the effects of a suicide terrorist attack on a London football stadium on one woman’s life. Michelle Williams turns in…

La Zona

La Zona

(4 stars)16 Oct 2008

DRAMA The titular area is a gated community in Mexico City, and the opening sequence establishes the Eden-like quality of this affluent enclave, with its pristine lawns, rows of immaculate houses, and smartly uniformed schoolchildren. But as the…

Edinburgh International Film Festival announce new chair

16 Oct 2008

The producer of movie blockbusters, such as Children of Men and Cold Mountain, has been unveiled as the new chair of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Iain Smith succeeds John McCormick, who has been chair since 1996. Smith has been a…

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