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CineWalkthrough
http://ihatepopcorn.blogspot.com
When an interest turns into passion: CineWalkthrough is a blog dedicated to covering and reviewing a large variety of films. Works from cinema's greatest directors are reviewed, while lesser known filmmakers (and lesser known films) will also be featured -- CineWalkthrough is dedicated to informing and expanding tastes in movies (including my own).
- Added on: Jun 21st, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
Recent Posts
My Woefully Inadequate Top 25 for the Decade
Quick as can be, this one. Reasoning has been foregone and I admit up front that I've missed out on so many potential greats that this list is pretty much futile as a result of it. Still, everybody's up to it and I do love all these films.&...
The Fattest Man in Britain (2009)
✭✭✭Though it trades in some shopworn themes, The Fattest Man in Britain is notable for squeezing genuine human perception out of its set-up, never the turning its examination of its titular character, the morbidly overweight Georgie (...
The Untouchables (1987)
✭✭If Brian De Palma's '83 foray into ganster-themed territory represented a winner in the remarkably affecting yet thoroughly visceral Scarface, The Untouchables represents an altogether slicker, cornier and ultimately detached alternative. For t...
Brazil (1985)
✭½The only thing more ceaseless than the beuraucratic authority that reigns supreme in Brazil is the movie in question's utter refusal to end. Long after director Terry Gilliam's film should have reached a conclusion to its obstacle-ridden pa...
Ransom (1996)
✭½Never more than a rich man's Hollywood fantasy, Ron Howard's Ransom first identifies its femme baddie by a tattoo on her neck and goes downhill accordingly. It's hardly a spoiler to reveal that she (Lilis Taylor) doesn't make it out after the en...
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
✭½Does The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas end with the ultimate 'burn!' moment or a crass, manipulative and calculated kick to the viewer's stomach? Writer-director Mark Herman and source novelist John Boyne likely think they've stumbled upon the ulti...
