DIEGESIS : THE UNCONVENTIONAL MAGAZINE OF FILM AND TELEVISION CRITICISM

Reviews Archive - T

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Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Tobe Hooper replaces the chilling and sheer terror of the 1974 original with a far less serious tone and style. A gore-filled slasher but ultimately empty-hearted?

by JOE DUCARREAUX
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Frances McDormand stars in this darkly comedic thriller about a Mother seeking retribution for the brutal murder of her daughter.
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BY EAMMON JACOBS
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Transcendence
The lavish, glossy exterior evokes Pfister’s prior cinematography for Inception (2010), but there is little substance below its slick surface.

by CAINE BIRD

The Magazine
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Transformers: Age of Extinction
Transformers: Age of Extinction is 165 minutes of oddly perverted blow-upness with fast cars, sexy women and faster cars.

by CAINE BIRD
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Twixt
Francis Ford Coppola's latest film is remarkably different from the director’s earlier work but fans of gothic horror should be delighted and entertained by his latest horror instalment.

by BIANCA GARNER

Festival/venue reviews

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Tribeca Film Festival 2013
Want to know which festival films to watch out for? Read our Tribeca capsule reviews here. Featuring: Big Bad Wolves, Northwest, Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton, Odayaka, Bridegroom, Out of Print, Byzantium, Raze, Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Fresh Meat, Sunlight Jr.,Mr Jones and What Richard Did

by GEORGE BALDWIN, AHMER BASHIR & LAURENCE WEAVER
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Diegesis Magazine is produced by the BA (Hons) Film and Television Studies degree at Southampton Solent University. The views expressed in Diegesis are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of Southampton Solent University.