The Good in Movies ~ by Dominic Corry, Film Critic

Talking Anomalisa with Charlie Kaufman

In this interview conducted for the Herald, I chat to the peerless Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) about his dazzling new stop-motion movie Anomalisa, currently in cinemas.

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The 50 Best Character Names In Movie History

I place a lot of stock in the names of movie characters. In a medium where first impressions count, an interesting name can really help sell the feeling of a character. Whether it’s loaded with meaning, has an appealing sense of the ridiculous, or simply sounds cool, a great name will always make me sit up and take notice.

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The Ten Films I’m Most Excited To See In 2016

In this blog entry for the Herald, I fail to keep my list of 2016’s most exciting movies to ten. And I don't even mentioned Star Trek Beyond. Which I do wanna see. But its unconcious absence from this list perhaps betrays my lack of excitement about the prospect.

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My Top Ten of 2015

In which I lay out the ten films that brought me the most joy in 2015. Although I am a pretty big sucker for blockbusters, it was the smaller movies that stayed with me this year. Also I saw Nothing But Trouble (1991) for the first time. That changed my perspective on cinema in general.

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2015’s Notable Achievements In Cinema

In this film blog entry for the Herald, I look back at the movies, moments and performances from this year that have really stayed with me. Also a not very impassioned defense of Adam Sandler.

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The Best and Worst Bond Villains

Spectre’s title strongly implies the return of the evil organisation’s leader, James Bond’s most classic villian, Ernst Blofeld. To mark the legendary kitten-stroker’s possible re-emergence, I cited the best and the stinkest Bond villains for my Herald blog.

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Five Classic Chillers For Halloween

In this blog entry for the Herald, I cite five movies that tap into the fun scary side of Halloween. The first one is called Dead of Night. There are five more. Even the math is spooky.

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Black Mass (2015)

With his audience goodwill somewhat eroded by a string of gimmicky performances in big-budget flops, Johnny Depp appears to be attempting to restore some of his serious actor credibility playing a stone-cold killer in this grim biopic about notorious Boston underworld figure James ‘Whitey’ Bulger.

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The Martian (2015)

Alien and Prometheus director Ridley Scott re-affirms his status as one of modern cinema’s most confident helmers of space-bound movies with this tense, slick thriller faithfully adapted from Andy Weir’s 2011 runaway bestseller.

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Matt Damon on The Martian

In this video interview conducted for the Herald, I chat with Matt Damon about The Martian, Ridley Scott, being stranded in space (again) and his favorite TV shows.

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