For all my Inception rejection dejection, there was one joyous highlight in an academy awards notable otherwise only for a slip of the tongue. Plus, how did you do on the Kermode Awards challenge?
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5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Confessions.
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How do you write for film? Not how do you write scripts, but how do you make someone look good when they are writing on film? In a new movie about the trial surrounding the first performance and publication of Allen Ginsberg's epic beat culture poem Howl, James Franco shows us one version. In Terry Gilliam's take on Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Johnny Depp offers up another. The question is, can anyone write well on screen ever?
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But there are not just the Academy Award predictions to consider... who and what are to be blessed with those all important Kermodes?
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5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son.
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Besides a magical rapport with a camera, what else do Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, Joe Dante, Curtis Hanson, Ron Howard, Nicolas Roeg and even Timur Bekmambetov have in common with Academy Award nominee Wally Pfister, the brilliant cinematographer who makes Christopher Nolan's epic movies look so fine. (The clue is in the picture)
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How to present a British Academy of Film and Television Award
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5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews True Grit.
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Forty years ago, movie star Michael Caine, playwright and actor John Osborne, Swedish siren Britt Ekland, and a who's who of British character actors were brought together under Mike Hodges' clean direction to create a very fine gangster movie indeed. As gritty and downbeat as the Ted Lewis novel it draws on, the film has a punch like few others. Everyone can quote the lines, but just why is Carter's impact so profound, so long-lasting?
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In his new take on Brighton Rock, director Rowan, son of Roland, Joffé has shifted the setting forward in time to the early 1960s. A stellar cast that includes Sam Riley, Angela Riseborough and Helen Mirren (not to mention the great Phil Davis) look fantastic in the seedy seaside setting. But isn't this more than an updated tribute to Graham Greene and the hallowed 1947 movie? Isn't there another iconic Brighton movie being exhumed for (scooter and motorcycle) parts?
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5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews The Fighter.
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The nominations for the 2011 Academy Awards have been revealed and, as usual, they don't make much sense.
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Star Wars. Is that the name of a film or a spoiler? Is something I say still a spoiler if by not mentioning it at all I have given you no idea what the film I'm reviewing is about? Is this spoiler business now completely out of hand?
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