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Sightseers 2012
This is one of the funniest and most gruesome films I've seen in a long time.
Apart from being very, very funny, the film also has a surprisingly good grasp of murderous psychology. Having read hundreds of crime novels and watched 8 seasons of Criminal Minds on TV, I've picked up a little bit of the psychology of killers. This film portrays a very specific type of murder team where together these people do things they wouldn't dream of doing…
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Rise of the Guardians 2012
This is a film that definitely fits into the 'strictly-for-kids' category of animation.
I was seduced by the trailer, which suggested a bit of 'How To Train Your Dragon' style flying sequences and some decent action set pieces. Unfortunately both of these aspects of the film are short lived and underwhelming. There's some vaguely adult-friendly psychology in Jack Frost's need for belonging and faith, but it's drowned in cutesiness.
Some really bizarre choices were made in this film. Santa is…
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Sister 2012
This film reminded me a lot of the Belgian film 'The Kid On A Bike', in that fundamentally it is about one twelve year old boys desperate search for some kind of parental love.
Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) lives in a tower block at the bottom of an Alpine mountain that has an exclusive ski resort at the top. His only family is his 20-something sister Louise (Lea Seydoux) who is incapable and/or unwilling to take care of him. To…
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Amour 2012
I watch a lot of art-house and foreign language films and one of my annual goals is to watch as many of the submissions for the foreign language Oscar race as possible. Since this film won the Palme D'Or at Cannes this year and is Austria's submission for next years Oscar, I went to see it. I went in expecting a solid art-house film, I came out seriously wondering if this is one of the best films ever made.
Haneke…
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