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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The Top 10 Films of 2013 (So Far)
June 27, 2013 
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By Simon Miraudo June 27, 2013 With six months (and six James Franco flicks) behind us, it’s time to reflect on the best movies 2013 has offered thus far. Can we make any sweeping generalisations about the half-year that was? Well, considering that Fast and Furious 6 was very close to cracking this particular Top 10, we can at least […]
Continue readingThe (Pod) Casting Couch – Side Effects
March 18, 2013 0 Comments
Looking for a film podcast to whisper sweet cinematic nothings in your ear? Only one features Quickflix critics Simon Miraudo and Andrew Williams, as well as reviewers Shannon Harvey and Natasha Povey. That’d be The (Pod) Casting Couch, where each week the latest releases are analysed within an inch of their life, outrageous digressions are indulged, and flights of […]
Continue readingSexual nightmares and sleep crime – Side Effects review
March 11, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo March 11, 2013 Steven Soderbergh‘s Side Effects begins as one thing, and then ends as something else entirely. Over the course of its 106 minutes, the feature evolves from an icy, haunting tale of depression and abandonment into a squalid, sordid, serpentine Alfred Hitchcock pastiche. That it can glide from these two […]
Continue readingContagion sequel might mutate into TV series
February 4, 2013 0 Comments
Though Contagion director Steven Soderbergh is eager to retire from filmmaking, screenwriter Scott Z. Burns keeps cooking up ways for them to keep working together. While promoting their latest collaboration, Side Effects, Burns told Coming Soon that Contagion may have some (half) life left it in it. “We’ve been talking about turning it into a TV series and I […]
Continue readingThe 10 most exciting films of 2013
January 11, 2013 0 Comments
The 10 most exciting films of 2013. By Simon Miraudo. Though the holidays are over and many of us are back at work, it’s hard to feel anything but elation during January. With the whole year ahead of us, anything is possible. Yes, we can lose that Christmas weight! Yes, those new Arrested Development episodes […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Side Effects
November 5, 2012 0 Comments
The trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s latest pharmaceutical thriller, Side Effects, has arrived online. Though the teaser is largely ambiguous, from what we know of the picture, Rooney Mara stars as the wife of a convict (Channing Tatum) who develops a drug dependency in the lead-up to his release. Written by Scott Z. Burns (Contagion), Side Effects may well end up Soderbergh’s last […]
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