Category: film reviews

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Still Better Than Love

Does true love only exist in your dreams? Sick of hearing that love is hard work? Is meeting the right person all about timing? Wrong! Just put on the Patch, and you can experience love in seconds!

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Stoker

Those familiar with director Park Chan-wook’s style will immediately be engaged by the lush nature of his English-language debut Stoker, a coming-of-age story of a very different kind.

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Stories We Tell

After delivering a gem like Take This Waltz, director Sarah Polley has taken her camera and flipped it on herself to explore her family.

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Story of Adèle H., The

Francois Truffaut directs Isabelle Adjani in a true story of obsession and unrequited love, based on the diaries of Adèle Hugo.

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Submarine (2011)

Submarine’s set in the same era lampooned in Darkplace, that of the 80s, complete with mullets and VHS throwbacks. But the comedy here is of a gentle, wry nature, unconcerned with mockery, and really the film could be set anywhere between the 1960s and now thanks to its wonderfully timeless feel.

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Sucker Punch

When 20-year-old Baby Doll loses her mother she knows instantly that she has to protect herself and her little sister from their stepfather. But things don’t go as planned: Baby Doll’s sister is dead, she has a gun in her hand and her stepfather winds up committing her to a mental institution.