Tag Archives: Michelle Pfeiffer

Play It Again – The Age of Innocence

Play It Again – The Age of Innocence. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Rated G. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or […]

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Staying alive – Dark Shadows review

Dark Shadows – Starring Johnny Depp, Eva Green, and Michelle Pfeiffer. Directed by Tim Burton. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Dark Shadows is Tim Burton‘s best film in a decade. You’d have to go all the way back to Big Fish, or perhaps even 1999’s Sleepy Hollow to find anything comparable in quality. That might be […]

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Trailer Debut: Dark Shadows

What’s that now? The trailer for Tim Burton‘s adaptation of 70s soap opera Dark Shadows makes it look like a barrel of demented fun? We wouldn’t have believed it either, unless we’d seen it with our own eyes… We’ve been unimpressed by much of Burton’s cinematic output for much of the last decade, and were sceptical of his latest endeavour. […]

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Should old acquaintance be forgot? – New Year’s Eve review

New Year’s Eve – Starring Hilary Swank, Ashton Kutcher and Sarah Jessica Parker. Directed by Garry Marshall. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. These movies must be really easy to write. You know the kind. They’ve got a countless number of tangentially-related stock characters portrayed by typecast actors (saves time normally spent on characterisation!) who make […]

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