It was for a good reason it was supposed the Jason Bourne films might eventually become an American answer to the James Bond films. When Doug Liman’s The Bourne Identity first appeared on the big screens, we weren’t necessarily unfamiliar with the plotting, but the director of the successful Swingers in 1996 and Go in […]
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The Bourne Identity – Doug Liman and the start of something big. (Film review)
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50 Years ago Today: Marnie – Hitchcock’s unrecognised masterpiece. (Film Review)
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Robbed! Not just poorly criticised in its time, but reviled and even hated, Marnie, situated just after Hitchcock’s Psycho and The Birds is something of a sleeper masterwork by the brilliant director that may still be revealing it’s multilayered brilliance fifty years on. In fact Marnie is so intelligent, so complex, so laced with conflicting […]