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Cinema Autopsy: Film reviews, criticism and discussion by Thomas Caldwell
http://blog.cinemaautopsy.com/
Cinema Autopsy is a collection of Thomas Caldwell's film reviews and other writing about film from over the past 10 years. New pieces go up about every 3 days.
Thomas is currently based in Melbourne, Australia and his writing has appeared in various online journals, magazines and educational books. Thomas is also the author of Film Analysis Handbook.
Thomas regularly writes reviews for The Big Issue and is the co-host of “The Casting Couch”, a 2 hour film review and discussion radio show that can be heard on JOY 94.9 every Saturday from 5-7pm Melbourne time (UTC/GMT +10).
"Although I have studied film academically, I try to make my writing as accessible as possible. I simply love film in all its forms so I don’t subscribe to any particular school of thought about what makes a good film, nor do I favour one type of film over another. Old or new; Hollywood or art-house; blockbuster or obscure; I try to value every film for what it is and what it is trying to achieve."
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Recent Posts
DVD review – Bent (1997), Region 4, Love Films
Max (Clive Owen) and Uncle Freddie (Ian McKellen) Martin Sherman’s 1979 stage play Bent, which originally starred Ian McKellen in the West-End and Richard Gere in Broadway, is about a homosexual man sent to the Dachau concentration camp in 1930s Na...
Film review – A Serious Man (2009)
Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) For 25 years now Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading) have been making stylish and meticulously constructed films that reveal their deep love and knowledge of cinema. Frequently working in ...
Film review – The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) The second cinematic outing for the emo/tween Twilight franchise continues the love story between18-year-old girl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and 108-year-old-in-the-body-of-a-17-year...
Film review – Amreeka (2009)
Muna (Nisreen Faour) and Fadi (Melkar Muallem) Muna Farah is a divorced Palestinian woman dealing with the increasing daily frustrations of living in the West Bank. It is 2003, the year America invaded Iraq, and Muna is fed up with the daily border c...
Dennis Hopper interview: The Long Ride
From Rebel Without a Cause to Easy Rider and now Crash, Dennis Hopper’s acting career spans six decades. But he is also a painter, photographer, writer and art collector. As he explains to Thomas Caldwell, it’s all about being creative. "Sel...
Film review – The Boys Are Back (2009)
Artie (Nicholas McAnulty) and Joe Warr (Clive Owen) Shine and Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts director Scott Hicks returns to Australia with this UK/Australian production based on Simon Carr’s memoir The Boys Are Back In Town. Clive Owe...


Very good film review.
Posted: July 16th, 2009 | More Reviews From nora5348 | Report This Comment