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Anthony_Antoniou has written the following articles:
Palindromes
It’s been a while now since I saw Palindromes, and I'm still not quite sure what I think about it. There's a lot that I liked about it a great deal, and there's a fair bit that I'm unsure about, but it doesn’t have the immediacy of Todd Solondz’s previous forays into suburban strangeness in Happiness and Storytelling. The willfully perverse scenarios and twisted characters are still all present and correct, though.»
Dr. John - Best of the Parlophone Years
This collection from the Artist formerly known as Mac Rebennack is packed with a surfeit of celebrity guest stars paying homage at the feet of an old master. He’s survived drink, drugs and numerous shootings, so it’s going to take a lot more than an overabundance of musical guests crowding the place to finish him off.»
Mean Creek
They say that youth is wasted on the young. I say that in contemporary American cinema there is a glut of cutesy, doe-eyed moppets choking up our screens in lieu of portrayals of real, believable children played by talented young actors. Thankfully, Mean Creek has arrived to redress that imbalance ever so slightly, in a dark examination of adolescents left to their own devices on a sunny afternoon.»
The Machinist
The Machinist is one of those films that a reviewer has to tread lightly around, full of teases and tricks and moments that need to be experienced fresh, without being spoiled by a long, drawn-out discussion from overzealous critics. I can tell you this much, though. The Machinist is destined to be a sleeper hit (pun intended), a film that will be discovered slowly, in the same way that Memento and Donnie Darko seemed to appear from nowhere to attain cult classic status.»
The Woodsman
Practically since its inception, cinema has had the unsettling power to make the unpalatable somehow sympathetic, or at the very least almost understandable, dating back to The Birth of a Nation in 1915, with the Ku Klux Klan portrayed as avenging heroes on horseback, through to the Godfather saga which turned murderers and criminals into one big, happy, dysfunctional fraternity.»
David Holmes - Ocean’s Twelve OST
Off the top of my head, I’d say you’re looking at a Boesky, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, two Jethros, and a Leon Spinks. Not to mention the biggest Ella Fitzgerald ever.»
Anatomy Of Hell
Breillat has finally reached the nadir of her repeated attempts to say something new or interesting about adult sexuality, faking purpose and meaning by filming real sex and arguing that this somehow validates her work by demystifying both sex and the human body.»
Shaolin Soccer
Very cheesy, overly sentimental, poorly dubbed, packed with blatant and shoddy CGI, very, very stupid and utterly brilliant. Forget 'Escape to Victory', the finest football movie of all time has finally arrived.»
Asia Extreme mini film festival
Film Editor Anthony Antoniou checks out the latest madness that is the Asia Extreme mini-film festival. "...any one of these films will reaffirm your faith in contemporary film. Go in with your mind wide open, your eyes peeking through your fingers, and your stomach empty."»
Super Size Me
You all know the pitch by now. One man. Thirty days. And McDonald’s as the exclusive provider of all his culinary needs: breakfast, lunch and dinner every day.»
Infernal Affairs II
"...A stunning middle chapter in this series of future classics. Martin Scorsese has a hell of a task in front of him to replicate the sheer style and flair of the series with the planned Hollywood remake."»
Battle Royale II
Three years ago, 70-year old veteran filmmaker Kinji Fukasaku unleashed one of the few bona fide cult classics of this fledgling century, when most of his peers were desperately trying not to sh*t themselves whilst trying to remember what they had for breakfast that morning...»