Category: Film
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Jane Eyre ★★☆☆☆
This fractured attempt at a remake simply doesn’t work
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DVD & Blu-Ray: Rio ★★★★☆
The makers of Ice Age take off on a tropical adventure with this vibrantly coloured animation whose musical numbers get you instantly shaking your tail feathers. The soundtrack is an integral part of this film, with the musical duo of will.i.am and Jamie Foxx – two rapping slum birds – bringing to life the sounds of […]
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An Open Letter to ODEON Southampton
Our film editor fights back against consistent incompetence
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Film Archive: Saw III is cinema at its most appalling and repugnant
This is when it really got sick. This is when it became more about the torture, and less about suspense. This is when it got obsessed with suffering rather than ingenious puzzles and plot twists. In other words, this is when the most successful horror franchise of all time became, to put it bluntly, shit. […]
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DVD & Blu-ray Review: Stake Land ★★★☆☆
An interesting addition to a crowded genre
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Drive ★★★★★
Classy, cool, and packing one hell of a punch – red-hot cinema.
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The Debt ★★★☆☆
Helen Mirren overacts in this otherwise watchable fillm
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Hello! At The Edge we are passionate about movies, and we want you to write for us. In 2010, The Edge launched the ARCHIVE section, a series of articles and reviews that takes a critical look at releases from the past. This allows students to review movies without having to see all the latest cinema […]
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Film Archive: Animated Japanese thriller Paprika is a strange, surreal and unforgettable experience
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – a group of people are tasked with uncovering a sinister conspiracy unfolding within the shifting landscape of dreams, and recurring themes involve references to detective and heist thrillers. If you immediately thought of Inception at the exact moment you heard mention of the word “dreams” in […]
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Cowboys & Aliens ★★★☆☆
With an unashamedly ridiculous and provocative title, it’s surprising how tough and conventional this competent blockbuster is. There’s relatively little humour, considering director Jon Favreau is no stranger to comedy. It has a strict beginning-middle-end structure, and there is of course a brooding attractive hero, a sexy lass and a collection of mildly interesting supporting […]
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Film Archive: With her sophisticated debut Cracks, Ridley Scott’s daughter proves she is a talent to watch
This confident directorial debut from Jordan Scott could be seen as a sexually repressed version of St Trinian’s, or a violent sequel to Wild Child. On its own, Scott succeeds in making it an effectively atmospheric drama about obsession, school-girl crushes and dangerous desires. Set in a remote 1930s girls’ boarding school, Eva Green plays games teacher […]
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ★★★☆☆
Thomas Alfredson’s adaptation of the 1974 spy novel is a must-watch, but unfortunately not for strengths in the plot or execution.
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Film Archive: Bronson is a horrible, self-indulgent mess of a film
Tom Hardy gives a stunning performance as one of Britain’s most infamous criminals, but unfortunately the film as a whole is an unremittingly nasty and pretentious biopic. Unconventionally told with as much charm as a festering corpse, this is potentially dangerous stuff, depicting unforgivably violent and horrifying scenes in a glamorous, humorous and non-judgemental way. It’s […]
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Film Archive: South Korean drama Treeless Mountain deserves a larger audience
Yong Kim delivers an affecting and memorable follow-up directorial effort to her 2006 feature In Between Days with this simple but interesting picture. It’s a sad tale of two young children whose mother leaves them to find their missing father. Their drunken aunt has to look after them – although “look after” is probably too strong a phrase, […]