Blog posts by year and monthJanuary 2010
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Film School 101: Dead Possessed
I am honoured: dutiful Kermode Uncutters that you are, you not only watched Possession and Dead Presidents the better to understand Lars Von Trier's Antichrist and the Hughes' Brothers new movie Book of Eli, you did so with your critical faculties blazing incandescently, thereby illluminating so...
Your nominations please
It's that time of year again: time for me to find out the movies and the movie makers who you believe will be worthy recipients of that most revered of motion picture awards, The Kermode 脗庐.
5 live review: A Prophet
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews A Prophet. He thinks the French prison thriller, A Prophet, delivers a brutal but flawless depiction of a life behind bars. Go to Mark on 5 Live for more reviews and film debate. (Please note this content is only available to UK viewers)
Hail to the Hughes
Since the release of Menace II Society Allen and Albert Hughes have exposed their directorial vision to the world at large on an at best intermittent basis. The release of apocalypto-action flick The Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington, puts them back in the game, but is it up there with the...
Game over...and over.
When someone seeking to generate a moral panic about corrupting video games attacks an article about the very subject of moral panics and video games simply to service their own agenda, then we are in disagreeably familiar absurdist territory.
How to Enjoy a 3D Movie
Contrary to theories based on opinions expressed in this blog and elsewhere it is in fact perfectly possible for me to enjoy 3D movies and I'd like to share the secret with you right now.
5 live review: Up In The Air
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Up In The Air. Go to Mark on 5 Live for more reviews and film debate. (Please note this content is only available to UK viewers)
The Possession of the Antichrist
Within the forest of references signalled in Lars Von Trier's headline-baiting opus Antichrist, now out on DVD, is there one deranged slab of 80s euro-horror that is the greatest influence at all?
5 live review: It's Complicated
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews It's Complicated. Go to Mark on 5 Live for more reviews and film debate. (Please note this content is only available to UK viewers)
Talkin' 'bout my Guy
My encomium to the unlikely eventuality of a good movie from the former purveyor of Lock, Stock, Snatch, Revolver and RocknRoll has provoked nothing less than a torrent of comment from your good selves.