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Blindspot 2017: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
The English-language remake of the Swedish book and film, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) is directed by David Fincher, and as a result is subject to many of his classic directorial Fincher-isms. The film’s synopsis is as follows: This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael […]
Zodiac (2007): “Man is the most dangerous animal of all.”
A beast of a thriller directed by David Fincher and based on a book of the same name by Robert Graysmith, Zodiac (2007) is a story that technically has no ending. Zodiac is a compelling tale of obsession and criminal riddle-solving whilst a serial killer stalks his prey. Its synopsis is as follows: A serial […]
July 2016 Favourites
Happy August everyone! I hope everyone has had a great first week of this eighth month of 2016. For this post though, I’d like to reminisce on times gone by… that is, July 2016. July was a pretty awesome month here at Film Grimoire as Rob of Movierob and I hosted A Timely Blogathon, celebrating […]
The Social Network (2010): “You are probably going to be a very successful computer person.”
Facebook has forever changed the way people socialise, for better or worse. The Social Network (2010), directed by David Fincher, tells the story of Facebook’s humble beginnings – with Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg) and his college friend Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) setting up the site, along with notorious entrepreneur Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) […]
“Is it worth paying for a ticket?”: Gone Girl (2014)
It seemed like this film would never arrive in cinemas. The promos and posters kept rolling out endlessly, and with this level of hype, it felt like a long time to wait. But here it finally is, and it’s a doozy. Directed by the one and only David Fincher and based on the book by […]
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