Articles by Radheyan Simonpillai

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  Letters From Iwo Jima

  Clint Eastwood

  PUBLISHED May 25, 2007

  The two-disc DVD for Letters From Iwo Jima is missing one crucial supplementary feature: the first half of director Clint Eastwood’s Iwo Ji...

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  Once

  John Carney

  PUBLISHED May 24, 2007

  Only Hollywood can afford to gloss over romances with expensive candlelit dinners and convenient plot twists that propel narrative and embr...

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  Deliver Us from Evil

  Amy Berg

  PUBLISHED May 23, 2007

  Amy Berg’s searing indictment of institutionalised religion, Deliver Us From Evil is not only well-balanced and deftly handled but packs an...

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  Shrek the Third

  Chris Miller and Raman Hui

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2007

  If we could attribute lifelike activity to the animated figure of Shrek, it would appear as though contract obligations are what coerced th...

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  Paris, Je T'aime

  Various Directors

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2007

  (Directed by Bruno Podalydès, Gurinder Chadha, Gus Van Sant, Joel and Ethan Coen, Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas, Christopher Doyle, Isabel...

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  Lucky You

  Curtis Hanson

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2007

  Director Curtis Hanson is much like the erratic gambler at the centre of his latest film. After displaying his exceptional skills with L.A....

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  Next

  Lee Tamahori

  PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2007

  It’s as though the triplet of writers attached to Lee Tamohori’s Next found a recycled Philip K. Dick book with the pages torn out. Drawn t...

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  Year of the Dog

  Mike White

  PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2007

  I have the lingering suspicion that Mike White’s impressive directorial debut, Year of the Dog, will mark a career peak for SNL veteran Mol...