by David Forrester
12 April 2012
Kirt Gunn’s debut feature, Lovely by Surprise (2007) is by turns baffling, sweet, infuriating and tragic. It’s an oddity that will leave viewers thinking of Charlie Kaufman and, perhaps, Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985). In any event, the fourth wall tumbles down.
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by David Forrester
13 March 2012
John Hughes is a man much-acknowledged for understanding the plight of 80s teens. He lived in-and-out of the world of the ‘outsider’, ‘geek’ or ‘misfit’ but offered insight into how ‘the bully’ and ‘the jock’ could be equally misunderstood. As far as he was concerned everyone was just a teenager, growing-up and dealing with everything [...]
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