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Film & TV The Master
Film Review: The Master (2012)

This is pure, ravishing cinema – undulating with tragedy, complexity and sublime technical command. There is hardly a film this year as beguiling and astonishing as Paul Thomas Anderson’s artful study of the human psyche and our species’ grandstanding capacity for self-delusion in a meaningless world. The Master is, for the lack of a better word, a masterwork from a film-maker at the height of his craft.

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Film & TV Compliance
Film Review: Compliance (2012)

You may actively condemn Compliance for its unpleasantness, but there’s no denying the kick it sends to the guts. It’s a merciless piece of cinema that’s uncomfortable, appalling and provocative all at once, a film that compels us to take a hard look at a disquieting spectacle of ignorance – the human tragedy to blindly follow, obey and concede to authority without asking ‘why’.

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Film & TV James Bond: Skyfall
Film Review: Skyfall

Bond is most certainly back. Sam Mendes’ long-awaited 23rd entry in the franchise, Skyfall (2012), starring Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem, is full of all the typical thrills and spills we have come to expect from Her Majesty’s favourite spy over the past fifty years. Yet this time around, we have a refreshing approach which walks away from the Bourne-like, gritty style of recent outings, giving new energy to the longest running movie franchise of all time.

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