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Archives for January 2010

Film School 101: Dead Possessed

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Mark Kermode|11:55 AM, Friday, 29 January 2010

I am honoured: dutiful Kermode Uncutters that you are, you not only watched Possession and Dead Presidents the better to understand Lars Von Trier's Antichrist and the Hughes' Brothers new movie Book of Eli, you did so with your critical faculties blazing incandescently, thereby illluminating some extraordinary opinions...

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Your nominations please

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Mark Kermode|17:29 PM, Tuesday, 26 January 2010

It's that time of year again: time for me to find out the movies and the movie makers who you believe will be worthy recipients of that most revered of motion picture awards, The Kermode ®.

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5 live review: A Prophet

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Mark Kermode|17:09 PM, Monday, 25 January 2010

5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews A Prophet.

He thinks the French prison thriller, A Prophet, delivers a brutal but flawless depiction of a life behind bars.



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Hail to the Hughes

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Mark Kermode|13:18 PM, Thursday, 21 January 2010

Since the release of Menace II Society Allen and Albert Hughes have exposed their directorial vision to the world at large on an at best intermittent basis. The release of apocalypto-action flick The Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington, puts them back in the game, but is it up there with their extraordinary 1995 heist movie Dead Presidents?

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Game over...and over.

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Mark Kermode|13:47 PM, Tuesday, 19 January 2010

When someone seeking to generate a moral panic about corrupting video games attacks an article about the very subject of moral panics and video games simply to service their own agenda, then we are in disagreeably familiar absurdist territory.

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How to Enjoy a 3D Movie

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Mark Kermode|13:58 PM, Friday, 15 January 2010

Contrary to theories based on opinions expressed in this blog and elsewhere it is in fact perfectly possible for me to enjoy 3D movies and I'd like to share the secret with you right now.

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5 live review: Up In The Air

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Mark Kermode|11:09 AM, Friday, 15 January 2010

5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Up In The Air.



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The Possession of the Antichrist

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Mark Kermode|14:01 PM, Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Within the forest of references signalled in Lars Von Trier's headline-baiting opus Antichrist, now out on DVD, is there one deranged slab of 80s euro-horror that is the greatest influence at all?

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5 live review: It's Complicated

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Mark Kermode|12:15 PM, Monday, 11 January 2010

5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews It's Complicated.



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Talkin' 'bout my Guy

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Mark Kermode|13:42 PM, Thursday, 7 January 2010

My encomium to the unlikely eventuality of a good movie from the former purveyor of Lock, Stock, Snatch, Revolver and RocknRoll has provoked nothing less than a torrent of comment from your good selves.

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At Holmes with My Guy

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Mark Kermode|11:35 AM, Monday, 4 January 2010

Lor' luvaduck, wossgoinon, have a butchers willYAAA, cos wiv Robert Downey Junior and Jude Law in his Sherlock Holmes old Guy Ritchie ain't gorn and made a movie wot I ecktually loiks innit wossername azzzEEEEE?

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