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Wrapped in Brown Paper: May 2012
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Wrapped in Brown Paper. Wednesday, 23 May 2012. It's that time once again! Here are twenty or so upcoming 2012 releases that I'm highly anticipating:. Story: A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out and find them. Story: A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race. Friedkin, arg...
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Wrapped in Brown Paper: Upcoming Films 2012
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Wrapped in Brown Paper. Wednesday, 23 May 2012. It's that time once again! Here are twenty or so upcoming 2012 releases that I'm highly anticipating:. Story: A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out and find them. Story: A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race. Friedkin, arg...
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Wrapped in Brown Paper: May 2010
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Wrapped in Brown Paper. Tuesday, 18 May 2010. Plot summary: centres on a group of frustrated Muslim men in Sheffield who're plotting a suicide bomb attack to coincide with the London Marathon. Chris Morris, writer and director of Four Lions. Is best known for his satirical comedy shows, such as The Day Today. Is a side-splittingly funny, surprisingly moving and above all, extremely important film. Thorough the film. He turns fear into laughter, to see these men as fools rather than people to be afrai...
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Wrapped in Brown Paper: July 2011
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Wrapped in Brown Paper. Saturday, 16 July 2011. It's been over a year since my last post? Story: When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves. Earning more than healthy buzz this festival season, Kill List is being touted as a highly psychological, violent, human and surprising film to keep an eye on. Director: Nicolas Winding Refn. None of Refn's previous films ...
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Wrapped in Brown Paper: January 2010
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Wrapped in Brown Paper. Sunday, 17 January 2010. WARNING: THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS. Plot Summary: When his brother is killed in battle, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge's intentions of driving off the native humanoid ‘Na'vi’ in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. After making the biggest grossing film of all time, Titanic.
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Wrapped in Brown Paper: June 2010
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Wrapped in Brown Paper. Thursday, 17 June 2010. My Top Ten Films of the Previous Decade (2000-2009). So a) I don't usually do this kind of thing and, b) I've technically retired from film journalism but my good old buddy Robert Beames (read his version here. Films but I'm confident that it's reflective of my taste and, by extension, myself. Without further ado, the list (which is in no particular order) is as follows:. 2007, Anton Corbijn). 2001, David Lynch). Is, as with most Lynch, a wonderfully stylis...
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Wrapped in Brown Paper: October 2009
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Wrapped in Brown Paper. Saturday, 10 October 2009. WARNING: THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS. Plot Summary: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as ‘The Basterds’ are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theatre in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. The film is essentially split into two storylines; one ab...
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Wrapped in Brown Paper: July 2008
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Wrapped in Brown Paper. Sunday, 27 July 2008. The Dark Knight (2008). WARNING: THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS. I've been looking forward to this film for a long time. Sorry I mean: really. Looking forward to this film, for a very. Long time. In retrospect I'm not entirely sure why I was captivated by the film to such an extent. Sure, I went to see Batman Begins. Take on the The Joker got me into the geekiest hype frenzy I have ever partaken. Nevertheless, in the end, coming out of the darkened cine...
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IQGamer: February 2012
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Thursday, 16 February 2012. The Darkness 2 (Digital Foundry - Face-Off). Featuring a range of impressive lighting and shader effects along with extensive use of post-processing, Digital Extremes' proprietary Evolution engine is a great fit for The Darkness 2, thanks in no small part to a superb cel-shaded art style that brings Top Cow's comic to life in a beautifully vibrant, violently gory manner. Click through to read the full article. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). LA Noire (360 vs PS3). A Brief Look At ...
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IQGamer: September 2011
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Sunday, 18 September 2011. Dead Island (Digital Foundry - Face-Off). First announced in 2006, it's taken some five years for Dead Island to arrive, and the end result is an ambitious, open-world first-person action title that borrows many elements from other games - most notably, Dead Rising, Borderlands and Left 4 Dead - while still trying to carve out an identity of its own. Click through for the full article here. Wednesday, 7 September 2011. Bodycount (Digital Foundry - Face-Off). Welcome to IQGamer&...
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