Released on: 2006
Rating: 5.10
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Insidious – review
Directed by James Wan and scripted by Leigh Whannell, the Australian co-creators of Saw, and produced by Oren Peli, the Israeli writer-director of Paranormal Activity, this is a supernatural horror flick by and for horror buffs. A pleasant, apparently American couple and their three small children move into a new house where things go bump in the night and the eldest child experiences a three-month coma. They get even bumpier when the family moves elsewhere and the situation become more problematic than that in The Amityville Horror. The build-up is slow and sure, the shocks are exponential, Barbara Hershey as the husband's mother is even creepier than she was in Black Swan, and a bad time is had by all. The film cost $1.5m to make and has taken $45m at the Us box office.
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Farewell – review
In 1980, the Francophile Vladimir Vetrov, a senior Kgb officer disgusted with the direction in which the Soviet Union was going, approached French intelligence offering to provide invaluable information about Soviet spies and the Kgb's penetration of the west. He was given the codename "Farewell", Franзois Mitterrand shared the coup with President Reagan, and Vetrov helped hasten the collapse of the Ussr and brought about his own death.
Farewell is a somewhat fictionalised version of this relatively little-known story, with Emir Kusturica as the reckless, quixotic, idealistic Kgb agent (here renamed Grigoriev) and Guillaume Canet as the French engineer and the reluctant go-between. It is a richly intriguing tale about high intrigue, though at times a trifle uncertain, and comes over as a cross between two John le Carrй novels, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and The Russia House. There's a neat turn by Fred Ward as Ronald Reagan.»
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