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• Across the Universe (2007) 8/10

  2008-05-03 12:52

  

  Great beatles covers, darkly surreal at times and captures what I think the sixties was like. One of the must see films of the year.

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• Burn After Reading (2008) 8/10

  2008-10-25 07:07

  

  Great Character movie, Malkovich back to his best. Good twists and farce worthy turns with splodges of dark humour and violence.

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• Che: Part One (2008) 7/10

  2009-01-07 01:02

  

  First half of Steven Soderbergh's biopic of Che Guevara, well shot, Del Toro as good as ever but the screen play really hasn't dealt with who Che was and what made him who he was, interesting to see where Part II goes.

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• Cidade de Deus (2002) 10/10

  2008-05-24 11:01

  

  Everyone should see this film before they die. Based on a true story, chronicling three decades starting in the 60's of life growing up in a drug gang filled Rio slum. Some don't make adult hood, some become gang leaders embroiled in an all out gang war and the lead character finds a way out. Fantastically shot and directed, this has to be in my all time top 10 films.

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• Frost/Nixon (2008) 8/10

  2009-01-29 01:45

  

  Both the portrayal of Nixon and Frost pulled you into this character piece, although left out much of the detail of Watergate it focused on the production team and disgraced ex-president.

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• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the... 7/10

  2008-05-27 11:09

  

  Holds true to the original three, films and Lucas does not ruin the legacy as he did star wars. Takes you right back to being a kid again, with one roller-coaster scene after another. Sit back in you seat, turn your brain back to your childhood and enjoy the ride.

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• Juno (2007) 9/10

  2008-03-01 22:31

  

  One of the best films of 2007 that I saw, touching and a great soundtrack.

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• Persepolis (2007) 7/10

  2008-04-24 02:03

  

  Usually the idea of a French animation about a young Iranian girl would drive me away. However this was a very well illustrated, poignant, human and funny film.

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• Seven Pounds (2008) 8/10

  2009-01-19 02:45

  

  Will Smith plays an IRS agent seeking redemption, twists and turns are well handled in this engaging and at time moving film.

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• Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 9/10

  2009-01-13 01:08

  

  Funny and Endearing with great performance by the young actors. Recommended.

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• Teeth (2007/I) 9/10

  2008-05-16 22:37

  

  Incredibly dark humoured independent comedy horror, with an excellent cast of relative newcomers. Tag line: Every Rose has its thorns. A student when subject to male violence discovers she's unique with vagina dentata. The script plays it very low key but shocks when it needs to. Boy's will cross their legs, and Girls recently aggrieved by men will revel in it.

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• There Will Be Blood (2007) 5/10

  2008-04-27 22:35

  

  Beautifully shot, well acted, story ran out of steam culminating in a shite ending. 2 1/2 hrs lost.

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• Trainwreck: My Life as an Idoit (2007) 9/10

  2008-04-27 12:41

  

  If you've been to a few meetings then this is a must see film. Great scenenes of the guy sharing in meetings and touchingly sad film. A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit disordered, learning disabled, Tourette's syndrome suffering, balance impaired, ex-alcoholic young man from the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to try to get it together.

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• Traitor (2008) 7/10

  2008-12-05 07:13

  

  Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce both pull off great performances in this more inteligant than usual spy thriller.

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• Walk the Line (2005) 8/10

  2008-05-25 23:34

  

  Finally got to see this movie on TV (rare for me to watch films on TV as the ads piss me off) Great performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon both portraying Johnny Cash and June Carter as well as singing their songs. Never been a big fan of country music but the best of any Genre of Music is still great music and right at home in the ipod in my car as my lastfm stats reveal.

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