DAILY FILM DOSE: A Daily Film Appreciation and Review Blog
Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Best of 2013

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As always I tend to worry most about what films I leave off this list. I remarked yesterday about the vast number of quality films to see ...
Sunday, 29 December 2013

The Wolf of Wall Street

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What a pleasure to see at age 70 Martin Scorsese, into the latter stage of his career, deliver one more sprawling crime picture, in this ...
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Monday, 23 December 2013

Inside Llewyn Davis

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Like the unflashy 'Fargo' the greatness of 'Inside Llewyn Davis', the Coen Bros’ story of a struggling folk singer in the...
Thursday, 19 December 2013

Her

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While the idea of a lonely man developing a genuine relationship with a Siri-like talking Operating System, is the stuff of high concept ...
Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Fast and Furious 6

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It’s impossible to watch Fast and Furious 6, now on Blu/DVD/Digital, without the tragedy of Paul Walker’s passing in mind. The experience...
Monday, 9 December 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 n...
Friday, 6 December 2013

The Hunt for Red October

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In the era of the great Hollywood thrillers (the 90’s) this first Tom Clancy novel out of the gate is a superlative franchise vehicle. Cl...

Pain and Gain

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An obscene crime comedy of Michael Bay-sized proportions. This is as rude and crude as any film Bay has ever made, and while it didn...
Friday, 29 November 2013

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

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Will Ferrell/Adam McKay's touchstone satire of 1970’s broadcast journalism culture still bristles with some of the most absurd mainst...
Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Nebraska

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We admire the casting of Bruce Dern, the black and white throwback look and the embodiment of the spirit of 70’s mavericks such as Bob Rafel...
Monday, 25 November 2013

Citizen Kane

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Even heady proclamations like the ‘Greatest Film Ever Made’ cannot overstate how powerful this picture is. The story of a mercurial newspape...
Friday, 22 November 2013

True Romance

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What a collaboration! The muscular cinematic brauniness of Tony Scott, matched up with the idiosyncratic voice of Quentin Tarantino. Tony Sc...
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Tuesday, 19 November 2013

A Hijacking

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While the subject of Somali pirating is the same, this already-celebrated Danish film produced before 'Captain Phillips' has conside...
Friday, 15 November 2013

Jurassic Park: The Lost World

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Spielberg’s sequel to the thoroughly enjoyable and successful Jurassic Park at times feels like a shamelessly perfunctory and lazy exercise...
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