Nowadays, if you’re not recording a podcast and broadcasting each and every asinine thought that comes into your head, you are literally a nobody. A bloody pauper. A ghost in the shell milling around doing absolutely nothing with your life. I mean how can you not have an opinion about Zack Snyder? Or a movie released over two years ago?… Read more →
I want to start on something of a positive note before I get into Batman v Superman. So here it goes. There has been a lot of talk about the state of modern cinema in the era of all these inter connected mega franchises. We’ve had endless waves of sequels, the sequels have become prequels, the prequels have become remakes… Read more →
One of the recurring images I remember from GCSE Geography was a silhouette of a lonely looking elderly person staring glumly from out of their window of their high-rise apartment. The image was from an old VHS video of a taped BBC documentary belonging to our teacher who was adamant about scorching this particular image into our retinas so that… Read more →
Oscar season naturally bring us the inspirational true story about how one person or a small collection of people overcame great hardship and ridicule to achieve a great victory of the human spirit. This year, we’ve already had this with Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies and to a lesser extent Alejandro Inarritu’s The Revenant. Trumbo is another example and has… Read more →
This review of Zoolander 2 arrives almost 2 months late, after the film opened and was promptly buried by negative criticism. For more of this kind of late criticism check out the other articles on my blog. Any movie that begins with Justin Bieber being shot to death in slow motion for a prolonged measure of time cannot… Read more →
“For your consideration…” Who is the greatest living actor of our time? There can be only one. Many would vouch for Leonardo DiCaprio and for good reason, I suppose. Back at the height of “Leomania” in the late 90s, Rose vowed to never let go of Jack Dawson, as did about a hundred million teenage girls. Leo himself however was… Read more →
The Hateful Eight is the eighth movie from Quentin Tarantino, a fact that is proudly declared in the opening titles. I guess that is because QT is one of the few directors whose reputation can still carry a movie. The name Tarantino is tied with a certain cinematic promise, it’s an event, it’s cool characters supported by even cooler dialogue… Read more →
I know we are deep into January at this very moment, but in amongst all the Christmas and new year festivities, no one thought to ask me what my top 10 films were of 2015. Whenever I brought it up with people, I would see a quiet look of dread appear on their face. The next thing I know, they are… Read more →
As is common British civic duty, every couple of years the British people flock to their nearest cinema to watch their favourite super spy sell them a plethora of high quality goods whilst killing legions of bad guys in various scenic locales. How we laugh and cry before returning home to our repressed British lifestyles, where we sleep in completely… Read more →
Guillermo Del Toro is a director I’ve got a lot of time for. Just like Ridley Scott, (of whom I talked about recently) he is celebrated as a visionary director, entertaining a vivid imagination and a unique approach to design. In addition, he is simply fascinating to listen to when he talks about his craft, he is also a big… Read more →