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Gravity

attention, Hollywood: the wild success of Gravity means audiences have no trouble identifying with a female protagonist

Fri, Nov 08, 2013
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You know how you just avoid making movies with female protagonists because you keep insisting that no one wants to see them? Pfffft!

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Gravity movie review: nowhere to go but down (London Film Festival)

Fri, Nov 08, 2013
43 comments

Stunningly accomplished space survival adventure: heartstopping and heartbreaking; the best film of 2013. Just don’t call it science fiction.

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London photo of the day: the LFF press assembles…

Thu, Oct 10, 2013
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…not quite predawn this morning (though it felt like it) for the London Film Festival press screening of Gravity.

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cannot contain my excitement for the London Film Festival

Thu, Sep 05, 2013
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I’m hyperventilating from the array of overwhelming movie awesomeness before me.

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All Is Lost trailer: but where is the tiger?

Fri, Aug 30, 2013
3 comments

Hmm. Is there something in the zeitgeist that’s prompting movies about desolation and survival in harsh conditions?

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Gravity trailer 2: will this be the most horrifying movie of the year?

Mon, Jul 29, 2013
16 comments

I thought that first trailer was terrifying. This is worse.

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lost in space (Gravity trailer)

Mon, May 13, 2013
10 comments

Oh my god. This makes an icy black hole in the pit of my stomach.

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question of the day: What is your most anticipated movie of 2012?

Mon, Jan 02, 2012
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I gotta go with The Hobbit. I think I might well be happy to have no other movie but The Hobbit to watch this year.

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