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FRANK

Frank is way beyond odd. He is the mentally ill front man of a Band who insist on creating such impossibly bad music that no-one will ever want to hear them. And to that end he/they are very successful.  He also insists on wearing a giant expressionless papermache head/mask at all times onstage and off : … Continue reading

FRANKENWEENIE

Tim’s Burton’s latest attempt to scare us is a quite delightful homage to film noir that turns out to rather a tame spoof of a horror movie that makes one laugh rather than cower in fear. It’s a stop-motion animation (that I saw in 3D) about an ingenious young elementary school boy named Victor Frankenstein … Continue reading

Frantz

One of the (many) joys of watching a new film from French filmmaker François Ozon is that you are never sure what to expect as he so loves to switch it up when it comes to different genres. This time he has opted to make his first movie in German, and it is a costume drama … Continue reading

FREE MEN aka LES HOMMES LIBRES

This is the story of Younes a young illiterate Algerian Moslem immigrant living in Paris and making a quick franc from selling things ‘off the back of a lorry’ when he meets a nice guy who’s in trouble, and happens to be Jewish, so Younes changes from being a bad boy into a good boy … Continue reading

FROM BEGINNING TO END

There is good taste, and then there is incest.  It’s surprising that I can sit and watch a lot of suspect and even deviant behaviour amongst (consenting) adults on the silver screen, but this is one topic that I feel is just a tad too icky even for me. Especially when it comes in the … Continue reading

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