DAILY FILM DOSE: A Daily Film Appreciation and Review Blog
Monday, 30 September 2013

The Fly

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It’s easy to see why David Cronenberg was interested in remaking this semi-classic picture. Under the guise of a b-movie James Clavell’s scr...
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Friday, 27 September 2013

World War Z

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The few dollops of remarkably sustained zombie-chaos intensity and globe-trotting cine carnage are strong enough to gloss over the narrative...
Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Prisoners

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Denis Villeneuve executes Prisoners with same kind of bold cinematic panache as the best of the genre, namely 'Seven' and 'Zodia...
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Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Star Trek Into Darkness

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With the kinks worked out from the previous exposition and time travel-heavy Kirk/Spock origin story, and by staying close to the spirit of ...
Thursday, 5 September 2013

Charulata

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The story of a doting but frustrated wife of 1870’s Indian upper class society is both a luscious technical dynamo, a sharp socio-political...
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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