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‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ uncompromising, intelligent, and beautifully acted

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Written by Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan Directed by Tomas Alfredson UK / France / Germany, 2011 When the BBC screened the hugely admired adaptation of John le Carré’s Cold War novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy back in 1979, recent revelations were rocking the British establishment. Anthony Blunt, the Surveyor of …

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‘Let Me In’ vs. ‘Let The Right One In’

Let Me In Directed by Matt Reeves vs. Let The Right One In Directed by Tomas Alfredson Even in a pop culture landscape littered with the bloodthirsty undead, Let The Right One In stood out as a poignant coming of age story as well as a bone-chilling horror film. The haunting mediation on the difficult …

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Alfredson’s ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ uncompromising, intelligent, and beautifully acted

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Written by Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan Directed by Tomas Alfredson UK / France / Germany, 2011 When the BBC screened the hugely admired adaptation of John le Carré’s Cold War novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy back in 1979, recent revelations were rocking the British establishment. Anthony Blunt, the Surveyor of the …

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Empire Presents Big Screen, Day 1: ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,’ ‘Immortals,’ and more

The broken lift leading to the press centre was an initial augury that something was amiss. Moving for the first time from the comfy environs of the National Film Theatre to the cavernous interiors of London Docklands O2 centre, Empire magazines weekend celebration of all things movie initially got off to a rocky start. My …

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‘Let Me In’ vs. ‘Let The Right One In’

Let Me In Directed by Matt Reeves vs. Let The Right One In Directed by Tomas Alfredson Even in a pop culture landscape littered with the bloodthirsty undead, Let The Right One In stood out as a poignant coming of age story as well as a bone-chilling horror film. The haunting mediation on the difficult …

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Re-Introducing…Body Count

Body Count: Volume 1 Horror. The much maligned, hard partying, estranged uncle of cinema. Being the reasonably presentable professional that I am by day, it often shocks people that I, a man in his thirties of above-average intelligence devotes such a large portion of his free time mentally cataloguing some of the worst movies ever …

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Introducing…Body Count

Body Count: Volume 1 Horror. The much maligned, hard partying, estranged uncle of cinema. Being the reasonably presentable professional that I am by day, it often shocks people that I, a man in his thirties of above-average intelligence devotes such a large portion of his free time mentally cataloguing some of the worst movies ever …

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