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by Oscar O’Sullivan In the opening scene of Wes Anderson’s new film The Phoenician Scheme, a man is killed in a manner that is both uncharacteristically brutal and completely in keeping with the director’s sensibilities – Benicio Del Toro turns and looks at the unsuspecting victim, there is a beat of confused calm, and then…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – The Living Daylights Now here is the serious spy thriller Bond that was teased by For Your Eyes Only before Roger Moore spent his final two instalments back in comic-strip territory. Timothy Dalton is here at last to reinvent Bond (a few years too early, mind you) and reinvent he…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan God almighty but doesn’t college take it out of you? Monday – The Royal Tenenbaums An all-time favourite of mine – Wes Anderson can do no wrong. Gene Hackman is so utterly compelling as Royal, maybe the greatest difficult dad in cinema history, a corrupt hustler who thinks it’s appropriate to shoot…
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