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		The classification means that the film may contain material which some children find confusing or upsetting and may require guidance.
		A survey by the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) has indicated that most cinemas are failing to display important classification details on film trailers and promotional material – raising concerns about the quality of information used to inform the choices of moviegoers; in particular the families of young children.
		I understand that there have been a number of recent film classifications—and I am not sure if Senator Fielding’s reference is to those—and I can provide him with the detail on those.
	www.refused-classification.com /updates.htm

	VERTIGO
		The film opens with a dramatic rooftop chase that introduces the audience to Scottie (Stewart), a police detective, and his darkest fear.
		His inability to save her from her demons, his infernal vertigo disables him in her time of need, causes him to lose the war against his own inner demons, which even time can't erase.
		It has to be one of his most subtle films, leading you along one path only to have everything you believe to be true, suddenly destroyed.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsV/f_vertigo.html (676 words)

	Xfm Film Of The Month: Constantine (15)
		Born with a gift he didn't want, the ability to clearly recognise the half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human skin, Constantine was driven to take his own life to escape the tormenting clarity of his vision.
		When a desperate but sceptical police detective (Rachel Weisz) enlists his help in solving the mysterious death of her beloved twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the contemporary Los Angeles.
		Question: Keanu Reeves went up against the Devil in which 1997 film starring Al Pacino and Charlize Theron?
	www.xfm.co.uk /Article.asp?id=69602 (323 words)

	Constantine - Film Information - FilmFocus.Co.UK
		[Constantine] secretly hopes to buy his way into heaven by helping those possessed by demons (he is denied entry because of a previous suicide attempt), and may get his chance when a police detective (Rachel Weisz) asks him to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister."
		"Constantine, based on the DC comic book Hellblazer, tells the story of John [Constantine] (Keanu Reeves), a man gifted with the ability to see angels and demons who walk the Earth, and who uses this power to make his living as a supernatural detective.
		One of Keanu Reeves's best performances to recent date and desserves to be up as one of the best "comic to film" pictures as it involved some great cinematic moments.
	www.filmfocus.co.uk /filmdetail.asp?FilmbaseID=240 (183 words)

	Ray
		"Ray is the rare Hollywood biopic that does justice to the heroism, as well as the demons, of an American genius."
		Critics can't stop loving Jamie Foxx's performance in Ray, which is being hailed as an engrossing and energetic take on Charles' achievements and demons.
		"Reductive and simplistic, but whenever Foxx opens his mouth to sing and the voice of Ray Charles comes out, the film is a pleasure..."
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/ray (1169 words)

	Arrow In The Head's movie review of The Gate: Stephen Dorff/Glenn, Christa Denton/Al, Louis Tripp/Terry
		Even from an adult's point of view, the film has many spooky moments (the blinking lights, the moths, the ghosts, the dream sequences, the guy living in the walls), way kool effects (the little demons still look good, the eye in the hand) and mucho atmosphere (the creepy hole and shadows).
		The film goes out of its way to be creative and in this age of unoriginality, it’s really refreshing to see.
		The film’s main action set piece for example is pretty exhilarating.
	www.joblo.com /arrow/reviews.php?id=356 (657 words)

	Crystalinks Ezine
		DEMONS 'Fiendish' events continue to plague village in North Namibian News - January 25, 2006 Ombalamumbwenge near Oshigambo - Villagers say demons are still terrorizing children at the local school, despite the prayers of several religious groups and the intervention of a witchdoctor
		US archaeologists find statue of Akhenaten's mother AFP - January 23, 2006 Akhenaten was the son of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiy, a descendent of a Hebrew tribe.
		Blizzard in Hawaii Unknown Country - January 27, 2006 A vast arctic cold front has driven temperatures to record lows from Norway to Siberia and Japan, and has now brought snow to the slopes of Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii.
	www.crystalinks.com /ezine.html (1802 words)

	Frailty 'demonizes' its sinners
		First, assuming the visions are correct, it seems the 'demons' destroyed by the father and his son are not really fallen angels, but humans who have committed great sins.
		But just as it would be wrong to write the film off altogether, it would also be wrong to excuse some of the more subtle attitudes embodied by the film or its main characters.
		Frailty is not just another movie which suggests that people with quasi-fundamentalist beliefs are violent or insane; it also flirts with the possibility that the father in question really does have supernatural guidance after all.
	www.canadianchristianity.com /cgi-bin/na.cgi?bc/bccn/0502/artfrailty (1802 words)

	Shadowcat Movie / TV Reviews - Mirror Mirror (1990)
		Emelin continues to read Mary's diary and learns that the mirror was used as a gateway allowing demons to enter our world, by granting wishes and desires the demons would seduce one into using its power and fall prey to its bidding.
		It spawned a rancid sequel in 'Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance' which had nothing to do with this film except for having another demonic mirror.
		The director goes in for lots of scenes filmed in slow motion where the soundtrack is dialled down menacingly low.
	www.shadowcat.utvinternet.com /film0079.htm (1802 words)

	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Theologian of the Year
		Buffy, a high school student (now in college) in Sunnydale, Calif., discovers that she's the vampire slayer, and that her town sits on a "hellmouth" where demons are constantly trying to make an opening to escape from perdition.
		In short, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a parable, a postmodern morality play in which Buffy is a Christ figure, her Scooby Gang is the church and the vampires and demons represent the variety of temptation and moral hazards we all encounter in life.
		When vampires in Buffy are dispatched with a wooden stake or crossbow, they disappear in a puff of dust.
	www.thedoormagazine.com /archives/buffy.html (2629 words)

	Mappa.Mundi Magazine - Reviews - Quatermass and the Pit
		Quatermass and Judd learn that the area has been considered to be evil and unholy since Roman times, and that rows of abandoned houses nearby were deserted decades earlier by inhabitants who claimed to see demons there.
		Quatermass and another scientist investigating the phenomenon quickly note the similarity between the horned heads of the insect-aliens and the representations of devils and demons going all the way back to the cave painters.
		(UK, Hammer Films, 1967, color, 97 minutes, unrated).
	mappa.mundi.net /reviews/review_004 (2629 words)

	Pynchon - Film & TV: Film References
		About a tortured vampire who fights even darker forces, the Buffy spin-off Angel is set in a surreal Los Angeles haunted by demons and other supernatural creatures.
		Naturally, Marge’s fellow Springfielders read her work as a roman à clef, a chronicle of frustration expressing her dissatisfaction with Homer and confessing a secret passion for Ned Flanders.
		Many things are revealed by the commentary, including numerous Sci-Fi references hidden in the show, from a Dungeons and Dragons “Rust Monster” to a Lovecraftian creature used as a space bride.
	www.themodernword.com /pynchon/pynchon_film_tv.html (2629 words)

	Constantine (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The film stars Keanu Reeves as John Constantine, a man who battles demons but is tormented by the knowledge that he is bound for Hell.
		Constantine is a 2005 film based on the Hellblazer comic book, with some plot elements being taken from the "Dangerous Habits" arc (issues #41-46).
		Warner Home Video announced that the film is to be released on HD DVD on March 28, 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Constantine_(movie) (647 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film Reviews Sylvia (2003)
		Unfairly castigated by the critics, this film shows the complex relationship between two artists and the torment of a 50s woman conflicted by conventional expectations to conform to the role of wife and mother and her yearning for a writer's career.
		Film does little to explore why - or what made SP tick, or what went into her poems, or who her "Daddy" was - probably her most well-known, and disturbing poem.
		Admittedly this film is flawed, but it is still a creditable reconstruction of the events of Plath's life, and with impressive performances by Paltrow and Craig and a beautiful score.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Reader_Review/0,4163,-96934,00.html (828 words)

	Constantine Film Review by Seb Parker
		The film kicks off when John is called in to perform an exorcism on a girl (Johanna Trias) who’s been crawling on the ceiling and spitting obscenities at her God-fearing mother.
		Constantine makes it his mission to be a sort of divine avenger, sending those half-breed demons — who, of course, seek to create a Hell on Earth — and other transgressors directly to Hell while policing the boundaries of Earth and the realms of Heaven and Hell.
		Yet the film’s larger themes are far more compelling than Dodson’s agony over her sister’s inexplicable suicide.
	www.geocities.com /ulysses0004/Constantine.htm (981 words)

	IMDb user comments for Sylvia (2003)
		Sylvia in this film is brilliant but also terribly brittle and her inner demons are not caused by a brutish or callous husband.
		Sylvia was limited, perhaps, by the refusal of her daughter to allow much of Plath's poetry to be used in the film but, for whatever reason, it has failed to be more than a rather humdrum biopic.
		For starters, the film is titled `Sylvia,' not `Sylvia Plath,' forgoing any notion that this will be a thorough expose on the famous poet and her relationship with love, sanity, and words.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0325055/usercomments (4322 words)

	The Sword Review-Film Review Constantine
		John Constantine knows what he's capable of: he takes destroying demons in stride while everyone else around him panics.
		The film has many similarities to Blade, and unfortunately leaves viewers with the sense of deja vu.
		The film could easily have been ruined with over the top effects.
	www.theswordreview.com /item.php?sub_id=97 (587 words)

	Constantine - ComingSoon.net Film Database
		Born with a gift he didn't want, the ability to recognize the half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human camouflage, Constantine (Keanu Reeves) was driven to take his own life to escape the tormenting clarity of his vision.
		Constantine will fight to save your soul but he doesn't want your admiration or your thanks — and certainly not your sympathy.
		"Constantine" is based on characters from the DC Comics/Vertigo Hellblazer Graphic Novels.
	www.comingsoon.net /films.php?id=6271 (265 words)

	Piñero (2001): Benjamin Bratt, Giancarlo Esposito, Talisa Soto, Mandy Patinkin - PopMatters Film Review
		This first scene in Leon Ichaso's biographical film, Piñero, sets up a complex series of relationships between the artist and his demons -- or more pointedly, between the artist and the various audiences he sought to influence and astonish.
		The film's time-jumping structure and sporadic references to the prejudices and class politics that shaped the young junkie's life suggest there are a number of reasons for his "deviance." Still, the narrative weight granted the father-son relationship might suggest a reductive explanation: paternal abuse = homosexuality and self-destruction.
		The film is unusually sensitive to the many layers of identity and identification at work in the designation Nuyorican, and especially the political contexts informing it.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/p/pinero.shtml (1346 words)

	Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
		Soothing yet -- to these ears -- far from cheerful, her singing, heard in the context of a film about her private demons, sounds ineffably mournful.
		Filmed in 1987, the short film -- which relates the rise and fall of Karen Carpenter with a cast of Barbie dolls -- barely got a year's worth of festival time in 1989 before the twin iron boots of AandM Records and Richard Carpenter came down on Haynes.
		One of the more famous suppressed films of recent years is Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, an early work by writer/director Todd Haynes (Safe, Velvet Goldmine, Far from Heaven).
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/superstar.html (892 words)

	American Psycho film review
		Like the book, the film doesn't always know what it is trying to satirise, but for the most part it hits its targets, striking the right queasy balance between horror and humour, so that while we recoil at Patrick's heinous crimes, we find ourselves compelled to laugh at him.
		Stylistically, the film is exudes an eerie cleanliness and Harron directs with flair and courage, implying violence and showing the terrible aftermath, leaving us to fill in the gaps.
		Chloe Sevigny, playing Patrick's secretary, represents the sole voice of compassion and humanity in the whole film and as such is the person we most identify with in this nightmare world.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/american_psycho.html (892 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Pollock
		Prone to self-doubt, impotent rage, and drunkenness, Pollock is rescued from his demons by Lee Krasner (Harden), a fellow painter who becomes his wife, confidante, and most tireless champion.
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		Beginning with a shot of Pollock at the height of his success, giving an autograph to the woman with whom he would eventually die in a car crash, the movie backtracks nine years to find him struggling to make his mark in 40s New York.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2001/03/30/pollock_2000_review.shtml (356 words)

	DVD.net : Paycheck - DVD Review
		"Taking a poke at too many demons makes this film a little stilted and not among his best works"
		Paycheck: Designing the Future is the usual 'making of' type of TV fodder featurette with scads of interviews and so forth to bring some little insight into the film’s production.
		Paycheck isn’t the greatest science fiction film of all time, though it is by no means the worst.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=4219 (1177 words)

	Welcome to the 4th Oakland International Film Festival
		The film explores the way in which the family explores the way in which he family patriarch must confront his demons amidst the changing racial fabric of society and his own family.
		Played at the Pan African Film Festival and FESPACO in Burkina Faso Directed and produced by Nathan Collet and Leslie Khadondi starring Samuel Wamuti, George Cattermole, George Maina Gakiri, Simon J. Smithers was shot in Kenya, and shows the importance of elders and youth in African culture.
		The film presents a sense of Tom Feelings as an artist, in his studio and streets, his sense of his people and the pain and joy of our African history.
	www.oiff.org /nightscreenings.html (2578 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: JFK [1992]: Video
		Not a John F Kennedy biopic, but a film of New Orleans' attorney Jim Garrison's investigation into the President's assassination, JFK is that rarest of things, a modern Hollywood drama which credits the audience with serious intelligence and ultimately proves itself a great film.
		Oliver Stone's film has the archetypal story, visual scale and substance to match; not just a gripping real-life conspiracy thriller, but a fable for the fall of the American dream (a theme further explored by the director in Nixon and Any Given Sunday).
		Oliver Stone is always up to the task of bringing cruel history to the big screen (his next film is about 9/11).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CMEA (511 words)

	The Passion of the Christ Movie - The Film vs the History - Mel Gibson, Jim Caviezel
		Most people who have seen the film seem to believe that the character is a man. Before researching the movie, when I told my girlfriend that I thought it was a woman, she glared at me accusingly and replied, "There is no way that Satan is a woman."
		In the Bible, Jesus cast seven demons from her [Luke 8:2.16].
		Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water." [John 19:33-34] According to respected physiologist Samuel Houghton, this helps to prove that Jesus was already dead as the large amount of blood is strong evidence of a cardiac rupture.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /reelfaces/passion.php (511 words)

	Incubus - GoSale.com
		INCUBUS is often cited as a mere curiosity because it is the only film to date in which the characters speak solely in the artificial language of Esperanto.
		INCUBUS is set in Nomen Tuum, a village on an idyllic island that also happens to be the hunting grounds of two succubae (beautiful female demons that seduce human males and lead them to ruin).
		Mistaken largely for a foreign film because the dialogue is in Esperanto (Incubus was filmed in California), the film manages to use it's low budget to it's advantage and is heavy in gloomy atmosphere and mood setting music.
	www.gosale.com /show_product.php/1444169 (2641 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Incubus
		The Incubus is based on a novel, and by its very nature, a film has to excise important foundation material in order to compensate for a short running time.
		The incubus of legend may have been a wicked sprite driven by uncontrolled lust, but the only thing you'll covet after watching its movie namesake is a pair of cosmetic tweezers and a copy of Demons for Dummies.
		The Incubus is a film that, for a while, has several things going for it.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/theincubus.php (1000 words)

	Exotica
		However, this much can be told: the central character, Francis (a tortuously perfect performance by Bruce Greenwood) spends his days auditing a pet store that is a front for illegally imported exotic birds while spending his nights trying to exorcise his demons in the otherworldly strangeness of the movie-titled strip club.
		However, the last half hour of the film brings everything together in a most satisfying, almost tender, conclusion.
		That the customers at Exotica appear to be in a trance, listening to the gloomy tunes of Leonard Cohen while watching the girls dance, and that the central figures all have massive emotional problems that we can only begin to guess at, gives Exotica an off-putting air for much of the first hour.
	cinema.wtal.de /exotica.htm (282 words)

	DVD Times - Doom
		This film makes an effort to be faithful to its source material but even if you've played Doom, it's the James Cameron film that keeps coming to mind, not the game.
		So it is with Doom, which is based on a computer game that's famous for popularising the first-person shooter genre but storywise was basically Aliens with demons instead of space creatures.
		He'd better hurry up and make at least one first rate action film before audiences tire of him and he ends up in direct to video garbage like Seagal and Van Damme.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=59489 (2301 words)

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