By Simon Miraudo December 18, 2013 December: for avid list-makers, it’s the cinematic equivalent of Thunderdome. (Hundreds of movies go in. Only one comes out.) We’ve spent the past eleven months reviewing 2013′s releases as fairly and thoughtfully as possible, but that veneer of considerate criticism will be dropped in favour of sweet, sweet chart-making. […]
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Royal with cheese – Diana review
October 7, 2013 
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By Simon Miraudo October 7, 2013 How did they ever make a movie of Diana? That question was first posed for Lolita – the scandalous and very funny Vladimir Nabokov book, adapted somewhat sexlessly by Stanley Kubrick – but it’s worth pondering here too. In what way did director Oliver Hirschbiegel go about bringing the Princess […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: Diana
June 14, 2013 1 Comment
The teaser trailer for Diana, starring Naomi Watts as Princess Di, has debuted online. Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, the film focuses on the last two years of Diana’s life, before it was cut short by a 1997 car accident in Paris. The wordless trailer reveals little, except that it will be fairly messianic portrait of the Princess of Wales, […]
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