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A beautiful meditation on life, love and death or pretentious metaphysical twaddle? Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain is…

Starring Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith, Elijah Wood and Thora Birch

I’ve found this little gem of a movie by accident. I think, mostly due to the fact that it featured 10-year old Elijah Wood, than anything else. But after watching it I’ve come to really appreciate this unpretentious little drama as one of those movies of the earlier days which you can watch over and over and never tired of it, because of the good story and great actors.

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An ambitious, laudable, but uneven attempt to convey American hopes and anxieties on the day leading up to Robert Kennedy’s…

That Peter O’Toole’s days as Hollywood royalty are behind him has never been more than a passing comment one would throw whilst…

Marilyn Monroe famously sang “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. According to Blood…