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One thing's for certain about Eastern Promises - it won't have the 2012 Olympic Committee knocking on the doors of writer Steve Knight (Dirty Pretty Things) or director David Cronenberg. London,...
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This terrific documentary recounts a battle against the odds much like Touching the Void, but it ends very differently. In 1968, eight of the world's best yachtsmen set out to win the prize for the first solo, non-stop, round-the-globe circumnavigation. The ninth is an inexperienced Englishman and weekend yachtsman called Donald Crowhurst, who quickly finds himself in trouble. What follows is an incredible story of a man trapped between the deep blue sea and a series of self-made blunders. Directors Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell quickly sketch Crowhurst's dilemma. Mortgaging his house and staking everything on this race, he's hailed as "the dark horse of the sea" by the newspapers. The public love an underdog, but Crowhurst's voyage begins ominously when the champagne bottle cracked against the hull doesn't break first (or second, or third) time. At sea, his self-designed boat falls apart, he's battered by bad weather and he succumbs to despair. Finally he decides to fake his journey, hiding out off the coast of South America for several months. Faced with the empty vastness of the ocean, madness sets in. "A DEEPLY MOVING DOCUMENTARY" Deep Water recreates Crowhurst's ill-fated trip using news footage, his journals, tape recordings and - a great coup - the 16mm footage that he shot on deck. The result is a deeply moving documentary, buoyed up by teary interviews with Crowhurst's family, friends and rivals. Stories celebrating heroic journeys are commonplace, but this is a sobering, anti-heroic tale of an ordinary man who set out to attempt the extraordinary... and failed through a cruel combination of bad luck and bad judgement.

East meets Western in Johnnie To's Exiled, a Hong Kong gangster flick that pays upfront dues to the works of Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone. You get the bloodshed of the former and the languor of the latter (plus an Ennio Morricone-esque score) in a yarn that bends a straightforward premise - childhood buddies put aside their differences in pursuit of dosh - into a needlessly windy grind. The set-piece action is the saving grace of a movie that's as murky and patchy as To's last UK release, Election. This isn't quite as hard-boiled as that film, though: a streak of wistful nostalgia (which folds into outright sentiment at the end) runs through proceedings, shared by two pairs of hitmen who grew up in the same gang but now work on opposing sides. Allegiances are restored, however, after a stand-off at the home of hood-turned-family man Wo (Nick Cheung). Ironic, though, that in this male-dominated universe the most compelling character is Wo's lioness wife Jin (Josie Ho), who enlists in the score-settling frenzy we get in place of a lucid plot.

This film was just a joy to watch, it has something in it for everyone, all of the action scenes are played out beautifully and the comedy is spread out through the film making it funny without being corny. If I had to compare the likes to another film it would probably have to be The Princess Bride, a classic. All the performances are outstanding, the beautiful Claire Danes makes you love her in her portrayal of Yvaine the trusting naive star and under rated Michelle Pfeiffer delivers a stellar over the top performance as Larnia...but the performance to talk about is Robert De Niro...In every scene that he is in hands down he steals the show... If you are in the mood for a funny fantasy love story this is the film. Guys don't get turned off by the description there is enough action comedy and not to mention lots of eye candy with Claire Danes and Michelle Pfeiffer to keep you entertained throughout. The cinematography is dead on and keeps with the feel of the film...nothing about the film seems forced.

An anthropologist who is part of an arctic exploration team discovers the body of a prehistoric man who is still alive. He must then decide what to do with the prehistoric man and he finds himself defending the creature from those that want to dissect it in the name of science.

Over the next few days we will add films that have come out in the last month that didn't get big play, but are worth seeing.

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