I recently posted about the excellent new film Drive and asked for suggestions of other movies featuring the loneliness of the long distance driver. Here I pick out some of your favourites in the genre.
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Kevin Smith returns to form with his new film Red State, out this week. Can it be that the critical pasting he received for his last movie Cop Out has provoked him into doing what he does best?
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Drive - a great thriller about a getaway driver played by
Ryan Gosling opens today. This got me thinking about all those classic automotive movies from the 70s and made me wonder what's the best road movie ever?
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This Friday Jurassic Park is re-released in cinemas. This classic tale of rampaging dinosaurs comes from the prolific pen of Michael Crichton, who 20 years earlier wrote and directed the excellent Westworld - another story of a theme park where the rides start to eat the guests...
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After
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Richard O'Brien made
Shock Treatment - describing it as 'not a prequel, not a sequel but an equal'. Very few people have seen this wild musical satire of reality TV - made before there such a thing existed. For my money it's the perfect cult movie.
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The special guest on this Friday's 5 live Film Review Show is Gary Oldman. I'm really excited to see his work in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (which is released this week) and here I talk about his landmark performance as Sid Vicious in Alex Cox's rock biopic Sid and Nancy.
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I'm very preoccupied lately by the fate of projectionists in the digital age and what that means for modern cinema. Here I recount some recent frustrating experiences with the new technology of film.
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I've just seen Troll Hunter - a new feature film out this Friday about... well, about Troll hunting. It's the latest in a long line of fake documentaries that started with The Blair Witch Project - but what is it about this genre that continues to entertain us?
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Paranormal Activity
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In this piece for the Culture Show I meet one of a dying breed - a projectionist - and also brave the local multiplex. Good? Bad? Let me know what you think of cineplexes.
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I recently posted about a special screening of the director's cut of Ken Russell's controversial masterpiece The Devils. Here I pick out some of your responses to the fact that this great British film remains unavailable on DVD.
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