DAILY FILM DOSE: A Daily Film Appreciation and Review Blog
Thursday, 31 October 2013

Sisters

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The first of Brian De Palma’s ‘Hitchcock-influenced films, Sisters boldly begat a career long obsession with the Master of Suspese, recyclin...
Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Halloween III: Season of the Witch

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Though only an effort as producer, the much-maligned, persona-non-grata entry in the Halloween series has all the fingerprints of horrormast...
Thursday, 24 October 2013

Apocalypse Now

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Gut, determination and a whole lot of ego from Francis Coppola was the engine which not just got Apocalypse Now made but made it great. Com...
Tuesday, 22 October 2013

12 Years a Slave

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Steve McQueen’s already celebrated picture consciously manages to find a medium ground between the intimate and avant-garde roots of his ear...
Monday, 21 October 2013

Captain Phillips

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Paul Greengrass’ docu-realism modus operandi is in full effect in this picture, like Bloody Sunday and United 93, capturing the true-to-fact...
Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Eyes Without a Face

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Before the era of the slasher film, horror films didn’t get any sicker or more twisted than this early 60’s French gem which tracks the devi...
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Friday, 11 October 2013

Rocky IV

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By 1985 with Sylvestor Stallone arguably at the peak of his Hollywood influence he generated this fourth and most audacious entry in the s...
Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Gravity

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Alfonso Cuaron’s desire to tell a largely single person survivalist film in space adhering to the laws of real-world physics is inspirationa...
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Monday, 7 October 2013

Jackie Brown

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With immense expectations to meet or top his game-changer Pulp Fiction, back in 1997 QT delivered what now appears to be his most modest fil...
Friday, 4 October 2013

Rush

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There have been lots of racing pictures over the years and no one has been able to crack the genre. Ron Howard’s aggressively told history o...
Thursday, 3 October 2013

A Letter to Three Wives

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This minor Mankiewicz post War classic sets up a bit of a contrived situation, three wives/friends who receive a letter from a mutual friend...
Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Autumn Sonata

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Anchored by the best performance ever by the Hollywood legend Ingrid Bergman, and matched by an equally mesmerizing Liv Ullman, Ingmar Be...
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...
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