DAILY FILM DOSE: A Daily Film Appreciation and Review Blog
Monday, 26 August 2013

The Devil's Backbone

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After the uninspired sophomore effort of Mimic, Guillermo Del Toro’s modest but emotional and affecting wartime ghost story represented an e...
Friday, 16 August 2013

The Big City

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A remarkably poignant and mainstream accessible slice of Indian social realism from the master Indian director. The story of a conservative ...
Friday, 9 August 2013

Only God Forgives

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Nicholas Winding Refn’s talking-piece, blasted at Cannes and now viewable by the regular public in theatres and VOD, from these eyes is less...
Thursday, 8 August 2013

The Place Beyond the Pines

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A tad clunky in the ambitious sprawling narrative of this picture, Derek Cianfrance’s unbridled ambition to push his storytelling abilities ...
Monday, 29 July 2013

Trance

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The idea of Danny Boyle doing a Christopher Nolan-style heist/con thriller is enticing but Boyle’s imposing style however, bold and unique, ...
Thursday, 25 July 2013

Night Train to Munich

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Carol Reed’s WWII espionage pot boiler confidently stands as tall as any of the celebrated Hitchcock war thrillers of the era. While this pi...
Friday, 19 July 2013

The Elephant Man

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The Elephant Man endears as one of my favourite films of all time because it exemplifies what makes a great film – taking traditional sto...
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Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Myth of the American Sleepover

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Another ensemble coming-of-age film involving a handful of high schoolers on their last day of summer experiencing the pains of love? But...
Thursday, 11 July 2013

Shoah

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The masterful comprehensive examination of the Holocaust never fails to mesmerize on all levels of cinema, history and humanity. Though n...
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Monday, 8 July 2013

Rumble Fish

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There’s no doubt Mr. Coppola like many other 70’s mavericks suffered to achieve the success and admiration in the 80’s. That said, there’s m...
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Friday, 5 July 2013

Frances Ha

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The choice of shooting black and white for this picture is key to its warm feelings of cinematic nostalgia and the seemingly effortless natu...
Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Things to Come

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From H.G. Wells's screenplay adaption from his own book 'The Shape of Things to Come' came one of the most ambitious science ...
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Thursday, 27 June 2013

Naked Prey

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One of the unique experiments of the 1960’s, Cornel Wilde’s ambitious parable of culture and conflict is remarkably simple in concept - a ...
Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Carlos

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Olivier Assayas' memorable addition of Euro-art house credibility to what was essentially a procedural action film told with maximum re...
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