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Smashing the Glass Slipper
by Emma Street There is probably no film studio more closely associated with fairy tales than Disney. Since the release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1937 there has been a string of heroines...
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Plus ça change …
Emma Street marvels at the sanity of the characters in bodyswap comedies. The Magic Fountain of Plot Contrivance: Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman in The Change-Up Hollywood loves a body swap. Whether...
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A Liar’s Autobiography
by Emma Street A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman is based on Graham Chapman’s fictionalised autobiography which was first published in 1981. Chapman recorded an...
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The Host
By Emma Street Warning: spoilers for The Host follow! There are four of us in this relationship. After the success of the Twilight franchise, movie execs must have been up to their eyeballs in pitches...
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Come As You Are
By Emma Street Imagine a remake of The Inbetweeners Movie. In Dutch! Where the guys have never been on holiday without their parents before and decide to visit a brothel in Spain! Only – get this –...
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Smiley’s People
Emma Street explains why Ben Wheatley’s new film is – and isn’t – like The Breakfast Club Michael Smiley in A Field In England Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England was released last Friday across all...
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Violent delights have violent ends
Emma Street is swept along by a crime epic in which nothing really happens “Doesn’t this remind you just the tiniest bit of Badlands?” Rooney Mara and Casey Afflect share a quiet moment The poster for...
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Diana
Don’t make me pull my sad face again EMMA STREET relives the heady days of 1997 with Naomi Watts. We didn’t get an interview, but she walked out of this review as well. I am going to assume that all...
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
It’s the second instalment of the Hunger Games franchise and everyone from the first film is back. Everyone who wasn’t brutally murdered, that is. Emma Street enjoys the scenery and wonders where it’s...
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Saving Mr Banks
This biographical drama about Walt Disney and P L Travers, directed by John Lee Hancock, is out on general release today. Emma Street detects more than a spoonful of sugar-coating. Walt Disney...
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The Complete and Utter History of Britain
Michael Palin and Terry Jones’s 1969 sketch show is (incompletely) released today on DVD. Emma Street takes a look at the forgotten forerunner of Monty Python. Long before there was Monty Python’s...
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Chef
Emma Street‘s tastebuds are tingled by Jon Favreau’s NomCom. “Gregg only ordered a starter?” Chef is not a film to watch when you’re hungry. It’s stuffed full of lovingly captured shots of chopping,...
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A Night at the Cinema in 2014
Want to travel back in time to 1914? Well, hurry up and invent time travel, then. Want to watch a bunch of films first shown in 1914? The BFI has just the thing, and Emma Street has done you a preview....
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Frankenstein
Emma Street examines the monster science, not folklore, created and ponders how the literary legend stands up, cinematically speaking. Frankenstein (1931) Poor old Frankenstein. People so often...
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Mostly Links – 28 November 2014
It’s Christmas advert time, there’s no need to be afraid as Mostly Links takes a look at the best and worst of the web. Thank God it’s them instead of you. We’ve all seen this year’s John Lewis advert...
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A Warbucksing Day Treat
Emma Street has found her favourite version of Annie You know how much less annoying Rob Marshall’s 1999 version of Annie was than John Huston’s 1982 version? Well, the new remake of Annie is at least...
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Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no
Jessica Hausner’s Amour Fou makes Emma Street contemplate the wallpaper and suicide. Anyone who loves a boring, depressing Austrian period dramas stuffed full of long lingering shots and some truly...
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BFI Flare LGBT Film Festival
Britain’s longest running and most popular LGBT film festival starts tomorrow. Emma Street gives you a quick tour of what to look out for at BFI Flare. This Friday BFI Flare, the London LGBT Film...
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Desert Island Flicks
The General Election is almost upon us. And is there any better way to judge our politicians than by the films they claim to be interested in? Well, yes. There are much better ways. But it’s films that...
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Futuro Beach
Rough night last night? Escape to the beach with Emma Street and enjoy some roughly intense sex scenes. Regular Mostly Film readers will be aware of the occasional, ongoing series Monoglot Movie Club...
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