If you were a kid in 1982, or maybe old enough to know better but didn’t care, you probably rushed downstairs on a Saturday morning to watch a Japanese space adventure puppet show, influenced by Thunderbirds and Star Wars. It had a theme song catchy enough to rival the music of both, that inspired a [...]
I don’t know what’s more perverse – Taxi Driver’s glimpse into the scum slicked mind set of Robert De Niro’s disturbed urban avenger, Travis Bickle, or this nuts and very funny parody by Bryan Boyce, Walt Disney’s Taxi Driver. We first see Cybil Shepherd’s Betsy with an animated blue bird fluttering on her arm. Instead [...]
“In Nolan we trust” – those four small words carry such weight of expectation. With The Dark Knight Rises, can modern auteur Christopher Nolan deliver a fitting end to what many are claiming is the definitive on screen treatment of the Batman legend? The evidence is already there that Nolan has never failed to [...]
It’s been an amazing week for movie trailers (yes, I went there). Trailer park, an old Culturedeluxe feature has been dusted off to bring you the pick of the week’s trailers and featurettes. 1. Prometheus 2. The Dark Knight Rises 3. The Expendables 2 4. The Amazing Spider-man 5. Extended Prometheus featurette
May the fourth be with you! It’s that time of year when Star Wars fans celebrate all things Star Wars related. To mark the date, we at Cinetropolis want to share 20 classic moments across the original trilogy: Star Wars Ep.IV: A New Hope (ANH), The Empire Strikes Back (ESB), and Return Of The Jedi (ROTJ). Not [...]
1994 was a testing time for the Bond series. After being mired in legal wrangles, a new Bond film was finally under consideration after a five year gap. A new actor was being considered in the role, without Cubby Broccoli’s guiding hand. Could Pierce Brosnan deliver the goods? Brosnan was very close to securing the [...]
With Paths Of Glory, Stanley Kubrick laid bare the absurdity and cruelty of war through the callousness of French Generals treatment of their own men. With Full Metal Jacket, he sought to specifically deal with the transformation of young men into killing machines, as exemplified by Sergeant Hartmann: “Your rifle is only a tool. It is a hard heart [...]
In Blitz Jason Statham plays a Dirty Harry type London Police detective, breaking the rules and busting skulls to get the job done, his way. But when it comes to delivering a full on car / foot chase, it gets a bit, well, The Bill. There is the inevitable scramble out a back window past [...]
Terry Gilliam often refers to Time Bandits, Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as his “dreamer’s trilogy”. All three films share a common thread of fantasy and all three leave you with the impression that the protagonist may have imagined the whole adventure. There is also a common theme of bureaucracy chasing man – Brazil is the story of a man [...]
When people think of Tom Cruise what do they see? That shit eating grin, the Scientology, star power? I prefer to think of Cruise as a character actor trapped in a superstar’s body. Once he went stratospheric with Top Gun, he began to seek out more interesting parts, and get the attention of some great [...]
Punch, block, kick, knee, stab – Silat’s the way to do it! Or Pencak Silat to be precise, the retina blurring, no holds barred martial art at the heart of The Raid’s stunning assault on the (Precinct 13) senses. Welsh director Gareth Evans discovered his leading man Iko Uwais in Indonesia while making a documentary [...]
If you were a kid in 1982, or maybe old enough to know better but didn’t care, you probably rushed downstairs on a Saturday morning to watch a Japanese space adventure puppet show, influenced by Thunderbirds and Star Wars. It had a theme song catchy enough to rival the music of both, that inspired a [...]
I don’t know what’s more perverse – Taxi Driver’s glimpse into the scum slicked mind set of Robert De Niro’s disturbed urban avenger, Travis Bickle, or this nuts and very funny parody by Bryan Boyce, Walt Disney’s Taxi Driver. We first see Cybil Shepherd’s Betsy with an animated blue bird fluttering on her arm. Instead [...]
“In Nolan we trust” – those four small words carry such weight of expectation. With The Dark Knight Rises, can modern auteur Christopher Nolan deliver a fitting end to what many are claiming is the definitive on screen treatment of the Batman legend? The evidence is already there that Nolan has never failed to [...]
It’s been an amazing week for movie trailers (yes, I went there). Trailer park, an old Culturedeluxe feature has been dusted off to bring you the pick of the week’s trailers and featurettes. 1. Prometheus 2. The Dark Knight Rises 3. The Expendables 2 4. The Amazing Spider-man 5. Extended Prometheus featurette
May the fourth be with you! It’s that time of year when Star Wars fans celebrate all things Star Wars related. To mark the date, we at Cinetropolis want to share 20 classic moments across the original trilogy: Star Wars Ep.IV: A New Hope (ANH), The Empire Strikes Back (ESB), and Return Of The Jedi (ROTJ). Not [...]
Heat, Michael Mann’s sprawling, glorious epic of obsessive professionalism, ego, single mindedness and doomed relationships on either side of the law, sprang from that most innocuous of accidents: a cop bumping into a suspect and inviting him for a coffee. Mann first had the idea for Heat in the 1970′s when his friend Chuck Adamson, [...]
1994 was a testing time for the Bond series. After being mired in legal wrangles, a new Bond film was finally under consideration after a five year gap. A new actor was being considered in the role, without Cubby Broccoli’s guiding hand. Could Pierce Brosnan deliver the goods? Brosnan was very close to securing the [...]
Oh what a glorious piece of tosh is The Avengers, how noble in intent, how infinite in faults…” Well, If Sean Connery can mangle Shakespeare in this film, so can I. Yet, despite its many faults, why is it such a guilty pleasure? The plot, centering around the English obsession with weather is an inspired [...]
With Paths Of Glory, Stanley Kubrick laid bare the absurdity and cruelty of war through the callousness of French Generals treatment of their own men. With Full Metal Jacket, he sought to specifically deal with the transformation of young men into killing machines, as exemplified by Sergeant Hartmann: “Your rifle is only a tool. It is a hard heart [...]
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