As a shamelessly bad feminist, I frequently feel the need to apologise for the behaviour, actions & preferences of my sex. We are idiots. There are some women out there who are inspirational mould-breakers who make me proud to own ovaries, but the remaining 90% are morons. Of course, this can be said for the [...]
In this age of television wannabes and quick fix celebs, it is fitting to look back at The King Of Comedy, Martin Scorsese’s prescient examination of the modern age’s obsession with fame, and a film he himself acknowledges as a sequel of sorts to Taxi Driver, another classic misfit story. Both have [...]
Most attempts at fan videos usually only serve to leave the viewer embarrassed for all involved. If it’s not kids old enough to know better dressed in their bathrobes throwing light saber shapes, it’s kids dressed in fedoras rolling under wheelbarrows – and those are just the good ones. However one man has taken a [...]
In 1986, Michael Mann’s Manhunter elevated schlock-horror to a thoughtful, stylised, forensically psychological level. Brett Ratner later needlessly remade the source material, Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon, after the success of The Silence Of The Lambs and Hannibal. It seemed an attempt to cement Anthony Hopkins take on Hannibal Lecter as canon, and expunge Brian [...]
John Madden delivers a suspenseful, thought provoking thriller with The Debt, a mix of relationship drama, cold war revenge mission, and present day conflict between guilt and national face saving. Switching smoothly betwen 1997 Tel Aviv (and later the Ukraine) and 1965 East Berlin, the film charts the fall out from a Mossad mission to [...]
You have to feel sorry for Ross Webster and Lex Luthor. Webster, having spent billions building up Webster Corp, was clever enough (with the aid of an ace computer hacker employee who had been trying to swindle him) to manipulate the weather, try and kill Superman, and build a computer so big and powerful [...]
Making a sequel can be a risky business. If the first film was a hit, there will be big expectations. You must walk a fine line, on the one hand you have to ensure that the winning ingredient from the first film is recaptured, and on the other hand you must be careful not to [...]
“Once more into the fray Into the last good fight I’ll ever know Live or die on this day Live or die on this day.” John Ottway (Liam Neeson) is a marksman, hired by an oil company to keep wolves at bay from a remote oil drilling base in the Alaskan wilderness. When his flight [...]
To betray you must first belong” – Kim Philby Tomas Alfredson’s call for the dead world of cold war espionage, brilliantly scripted by Peter Straughan and the late Bridget O’Connor, is an intelligent, grown up slow burning thriller, showcasing a brilliant Oscar worthy performance by Gary Oldman as beguiling spymaster George Smiley. When Jim Prideaux [...]
Going For A Spin: The Centrifuge Set, Borehamwood In 1964, Stanley Kubrick was MGM’s golden boy. He had just delivered them a critical and commercial hit with Dr Strangelove: or, How I learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb. The studio was willing to back whatever he next had in mind. What he proposed to [...]
As a shamelessly bad feminist, I frequently feel the need to apologise for the behaviour, actions & preferences of my sex. We are idiots. There are some women out there who are inspirational mould-breakers who make me proud to own ovaries, but the remaining 90% are morons. Of course, this can be said for the [...]
In this age of television wannabes and quick fix celebs, it is fitting to look back at The King Of Comedy, Martin Scorsese’s prescient examination of the modern age’s obsession with fame, and a film he himself acknowledges as a sequel of sorts to Taxi Driver, another classic misfit story. Both have [...]
Most attempts at fan videos usually only serve to leave the viewer embarrassed for all involved. If it’s not kids old enough to know better dressed in their bathrobes throwing light saber shapes, it’s kids dressed in fedoras rolling under wheelbarrows – and those are just the good ones. However one man has taken a [...]
In 1986, Michael Mann’s Manhunter elevated schlock-horror to a thoughtful, stylised, forensically psychological level. Brett Ratner later needlessly remade the source material, Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon, after the success of The Silence Of The Lambs and Hannibal. It seemed an attempt to cement Anthony Hopkins take on Hannibal Lecter as canon, and expunge Brian [...]
John Madden delivers a suspenseful, thought provoking thriller with The Debt, a mix of relationship drama, cold war revenge mission, and present day conflict between guilt and national face saving. Switching smoothly betwen 1997 Tel Aviv (and later the Ukraine) and 1965 East Berlin, the film charts the fall out from a Mossad mission to [...]
You have to feel sorry for Ross Webster and Lex Luthor. Webster, having spent billions building up Webster Corp, was clever enough (with the aid of an ace computer hacker employee who had been trying to swindle him) to manipulate the weather, try and kill Superman, and build a computer so big and powerful [...]
Making a sequel can be a risky business. If the first film was a hit, there will be big expectations. You must walk a fine line, on the one hand you have to ensure that the winning ingredient from the first film is recaptured, and on the other hand you must be careful not to [...]
“Once more into the fray Into the last good fight I’ll ever know Live or die on this day Live or die on this day.” John Ottway (Liam Neeson) is a marksman, hired by an oil company to keep wolves at bay from a remote oil drilling base in the Alaskan wilderness. When his flight [...]
To betray you must first belong” – Kim Philby Tomas Alfredson’s call for the dead world of cold war espionage, brilliantly scripted by Peter Straughan and the late Bridget O’Connor, is an intelligent, grown up slow burning thriller, showcasing a brilliant Oscar worthy performance by Gary Oldman as beguiling spymaster George Smiley. When Jim Prideaux [...]
Going For A Spin: The Centrifuge Set, Borehamwood In 1964, Stanley Kubrick was MGM’s golden boy. He had just delivered them a critical and commercial hit with Dr Strangelove: or, How I learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb. The studio was willing to back whatever he next had in mind. What he proposed to [...]
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