The Agitation of the Mind: Despicable Me 2
Sunday, 21 July 2013
The World's End
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Early on in ‘The World’s End’, the fictitious town of Newton Haven – the kind of depressingly generic English small town that’s not quaint o...
Saturday, 20 July 2013
Despicable Me 2
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At some point – probably while it was still playing in cinemas – someone took a look at the returns for ‘Despicable Me’ and gave the sequel ...
Thursday, 18 July 2013
Despicable Me
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Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud’s out-of-nowhere hit starts with some horribly blocky animation and a handful of brilliant concepts. The horr...
Sunday, 14 July 2013
THE AGITATION OF THE SMALL SCREEN: Steptoe and Son – Series 1
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With the caveat that Dick Clement and Ian la Frenais’s ‘Porridge’ runs a very close second, it’s my humble opinion that Ray Simpson and Alan...
Thursday, 11 July 2013
In brief: The Bling Ring
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About a third of the way into 'The Bling Ring' - maybe less; it's a mercifully short film - a couple of over privileged teens de...
Sunday, 7 July 2013
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
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There’s an elephant in the room when it comes to ‘My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?’. It’s a big elephant with floppy ears and a trunk like...
Thursday, 4 July 2013
This is the End
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Okay. Imagine that Tarkovsky’s ‘The Sacrifice’ took place not in a remote dacha but a couple of miles from the Hollywood sign, that its prot...
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