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True Grit movie review: authentically hard-boiled

No working American filmmakers are as prolific, diverse and consistently impressive as the inimitable Coen Brothers, who have maintained the moviemaking Midas touch for almost three decades and continue to surprise. The Coens’ add hard-boiled classical western to their ever-expanding oeuvre with True Grit, adapting a novel by Charles Portis which was also the source [...]

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Tron: Legacy movie review: eye-boggling souped-up SCI-FI

Nearly three decades after Disney’s junky classic Tron (1982) torpedoed into cinemas with a blast of screen-buckling speaker-crushing sound and fury the time has arrived for audiences to once again trip the neon light fantastic in director Joseph Kosinski’s belated sequel, which arrives at a point in history much more capable of realising the original’s [...]

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The Men Who Stare at Goats movie review: amusing it-might-be-real WTF? entertainment

In The Men Who Stare at Goats, George Clooney, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey play fearless Jedi warriors who use the force – though they never actually call it that – to control minds, run through walls and telepathically murder animals. But SCI-FI geeks ought to note that this film has absolutely nothing to do [...]

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Crazy Heart movie review: character study of a broken down muso hits the right notes

Around this time last year Mickey Rourke was generating widespread acclaim for his screen-chewing performance as Randy “The Ram” Robinson, the eponymous down-on-his luck protagonist in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler. Jeff Bridges is currently generating a similar level of buzz for his Oscar-nominated performance as Bad Blake in Crazy Heart, director Scott Cooper’s character study [...]

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