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Cloverfield (2008)

Director: Matt Reeves
Casting: Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, Odette Yustman, …
Lenght: 85mn
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J.J. Abrams’s creative team have struck once again with their capacity to innovate and bring new blood into an old genre, showing that even the least likely of all sory can be surprisingly enticing if seen through the [...]

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Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Director: Tim Burton
Casting: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alarn Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, …
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At last I saw Sweeney Todd, the latest Tim Burton movie, which renew its cooperation with Johnny Depp in the lead character. And wow! was I taken aback… This is defintely a Burton movie, a dark gothic tale [...]

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And the thinnest is…

Apple’s new Macbook Air. That is now official, Apple uncovered its long rumoured ultra-thin laptop and as usual it is a pretty exciting piece of technology. The New Macbook Air boast a full 5h of battery while continuously accessing the internet wirelessly, an activity that usually drain the battery significantly faster. That alone would place [...]

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Be kind, rewind (preview)

The new Michel Gondry is coming, and it looks seriously good!
Be Kind, Rewind, will star Jack Black, Mos Def and Danny Glover. The plot is of course quite spaced out, as it is customary with Gondry, but at once inventive and deeper than it looks. This time, Jack Black and Mos Def are clerks in [...]

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El Orfanato (2007)

Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Casting: Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep, …
Lenght: 100mn
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Very interesting Spanish horror movie, in the tradition of Guillermo Del Toro – so it is not surprising he is the godfather of this movie. Despite its categorization as a horror film, it would be more accurate to say this is a very [...]

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Radiohead – In Rainbows

Finally, after years of absence, a new release by Radiohead. An early addict to the hypnotic rythm and spaced-out lyrics of the band, I was of course highly anticipating this new album, entitled “In rainbows”. And I am not disappointed in any way. Granted, this is not the landmark album some hardcore fans might have [...]

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300 – The review (TheDarkFrench)

Director: Zack Snyder
Casting: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Rodrigo Santoro
Lenght: 115mn
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Finally released! Not exactly 300, which had already been screening for more a month in the US and slightly less in Europe, but my post on 300! The genuine TheDarkFrench movie review post on which everybody should base his decision to see or not [...]

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300 Trailer 2

The trailer 2 of 300 has been released in HD. You will find it here. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced of the artistic quality of this movie. Like Sin City, the director (In this case Zack Snyder) seems to have managed to capture the graphic essence of Frank Miller’s [...]

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Iklimler (Climates/Climats)

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Casting: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, Nazan Kirilmis
Lenght: 101mn
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After Mayis Sikintisi and Uzak, the Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a frequent visitor to Cannes film festival, is back. Iklimler, the story of the destruction of a relationship between university instructor Isa (Ceylan himself) and his younger wife Bahar (Ebru Ceylan, [...]

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