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Twitter Review: Slumdog Millionaire

September 13, 2021April 15, 2009 by Culture Snob

Slumdog Millionaire – The climax? Salim interrupts. The dance? Credits intrude. Boyle trashes my minor goodwill with shit I don’t care about

Tagged: Danny Boyle, Reviews, Slumdog Millionaire, Twitter, Twitter Reviews
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Ain’t No Sunshine

September 18, 2021August 28, 2007 by Culture Snob

'Sunshine': This is not an underwear ad(An experiment in theft [or fair use] and editing as part of Lazy Eye Theatre’s Bizarro Blog-a-thon.) Sunshine and Groundhog Day have a lot in common. In each, we see things we’ve seen before, over and over again. But in Sunshine, this doesn’t describe the plot of the film, but the movie itself.*

Tagged: Blog-a-thons, Critics, Danny Boyle, Making a Mockery, Reviews, Science Fiction, Sunshine
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Resistance Is Futile

September 13, 2021February 22, 2006 by Culture Snob

I fought Millions for as long as I could. But in the end, it won. It’s a charming little movie that casts magical realism as the mind of a child. Plus: an easy dismissal of Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

Tagged: Danny Boyle, Millions, Nick Park, Reviews, Wallace and Gromit, Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
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All the Rage

September 13, 2021July 10, 2003 by Culture Snob

There was a moment early in the airless 28 Days Later when I knew that the movie was going to be something special – one of those little expert touches that tells you the filmmakers understand the power of the material and are in complete control of it.

Tagged: 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle, Horror, Reviews, Zombies
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