You’re not the boss of me now (Horrible Bosses, Seth Gordon, US, 2011, 98 mins) “How you like me now?” asks The Heavy as Horrible Bosses climaxes, and the answer, tinged with regret, is ‘not as much as I wanted to’. Seth Gordon’s vicarious revengearama comes frontloaded with good will; perhaps enough to carry you [...]
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Sons and Lovers (Beginners, Mike Mills, US, 2010, 105 mins) Mike Mills’ semi-autobiographical drama is an understated study in repression, recalling late seventies Woody Allen. Similar preoccupations; identity, sex and the romantic, inform a father and son story with a difference; not the more predictable yarn, in which one learns an important lesson from the [...]
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‘Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.’ (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, David Yates, UK & US, 2011, 130 mins) [Warning: There are a lot of spoilers in this review if you haven’t already read the books] The quote [...]
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Anti-heroes (Super, James Gunn, US, 2010, 96 mins) Nb: This review reveals the film’s ending. James Gunn’s black comedy, about a blubbing defective who adopts a super-hero persona when his wife, a former drug addict, leaves him for a dealer, in an outlandish bid to save her and restore his relationship, is a provocative and [...]
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Haiku The frosted glass hides The shape of the still spread bed – Void of all but dust. Lovers in lamplight, Sharing hearts and frozen lips – What secrets still lie? Summer’s shooting star, Dancing higher than heaven – What have you witnessed? Rain and sands tumble; This world strives ever [...]
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On the windowsill looking in one claw clutching the wooden rim, the other tucked in beneath a wing. Used condom laying on the edge of the bin, its contents starting to smell, its contents starting to stink and dribble out upon the blue and black ink the words he didn’t really think. Looking in, small, [...]
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A purposeful march, up down up down through supermarket isles. Others pushing past as I march, ‘excuse me’ ‘sorry’ ‘excuse me’ ‘sorry’. As I look round at my passers by one by one they lose their heads; the heads, they do not fall to the ground they do not leave a trace, they just vanish. [...]
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Litigious Dreams (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Michael Bay, US, 2011, 157mins) The CIA should sue, CISCO systems should sue, The Mayor of Chicago should sue, The Democrats should sue, the parents of Rosie Fuckrington-Carstairs should sue, her agent should sue, Biffy Clyro should sue, the estate of John F. Kennedy should sue, Buzz Aldrin [...]
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