DAILY FILM DOSE: A Daily Film Appreciation and Review Blog
Friday, 6 July 2012

The Gold Rush

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The second of Chaplin’s feature films (after 1921’s 'The Kid') loses nothing over time, easily gliding past all technical innov...
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Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Magic Mike

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Steven Soderbergh is at it again, subverting our expectations with a conventional commercial film - a male stripper movie featuring Chann...
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Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Cauterizing the Wound, and Other Forms of Self-Medication in Cinema

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So, you’re a character in a movie, and you’ve just been in an action scene. You’ve been fighting off either the hero or the villain of the...
Friday, 29 June 2012

Jaws

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Bored with over-hyped, under-delivered summer flicks? TIFF Bell Lightbox's antidote is the return to the big screen, in pristine Spielb...
Thursday, 28 June 2012

Sling Blade

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Despite the ornery moodiness and general public strangeness of Billy Bob Thornton, his breakout film, 'Sling Blade', still lingers a...
Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Beverly Hills Cop

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'48 Hours', the original Eddie Murphy vehicle and his first feature film, which helped rocket him into stardom outside of his SNL fa...
Tuesday, 26 June 2012

The Mystery Team

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It’s a great success story for this trio of ambitious online sketch comedians known as the ‘Derrick Comedy Group'. For years before the ...
Monday, 25 June 2012

The Towering Inferno

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I LOVE 'The Towering Inferno' - the best disaster movie ever made. Admittedly, I hadn’t seen it since childhood, and it holds up bey...
Friday, 22 June 2012

Lakeview Terrace

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When neighbours go bad is the theme of 'Lakeview Terrace'. Neil LaBute’s take on a familiar story has moments of the thought-provok...
Thursday, 21 June 2012

Prometheus

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Thinking about this film tears me apart. For each of its 120 minutes, Prometheus is fascinating with a palpable feeling of cinematic moment...
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Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Accident

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This TIFF inclusion from 2009 finally emerges on Canadian soil for public consumption on Blu-ray via Shout Factory almost three years later...
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Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Shallow Grave

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A sublime introduction to a consistently entertaining filmmaker in a genre (contemporary film noir) used by other great filmmakers (Coen Bro...
Monday, 18 June 2012

Goodfellas

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What are the best uses of voiceover in film? Terrence Malick's 'Badlands' or 'Days of Heaven' perhaps, or 'The Magni...
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Friday, 15 June 2012

The Witches of Eastwick

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Time warp back to 1987. One of the higher profile summer movies of that year was the Witches of Eastwick, based on the 1984 novel by John U...
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