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The Master

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No major American film has ever embodied the internal, fatalistic logic of the melancholic so thoroughly

What Richard Did

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Director: Lenny Abrahamson Talent: Jack Reynor, Roisin Murphy, Sam Keeley Release Date: 5th October 2012 Lenny Abrahamson’s third feature as director, written by Malcolm Campbell, takes its cue from Kevin Power’s Bad Day In Blackrock, a novel centred around an act of brutal violence by privileged young men from the read more…

Looper

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Director: Rian Johnson Talent: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano Release Date: 28th September 2012 Rian Johnson is a “unique Hollywood voice” of uneven quality but undeniable ambition. Looper, as a big, serious action film, rights some of the directorial wrongs of Brick and The Brothers Bloom: marvel read more…

Lawless

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A nightmarish myth in which the brutality of Nick Cave’s Murder Ballads is wrought into cinematic reality.