Posted in Documentary, News on Jun 27th, 2007 3 Comments »
Conspiracy theories make for great movies, but lousy documentaries.
I realised this while I was watching a short video produced by Purdue university which simulates the physical impact of the flight that hit the North Tower of the World Trade Centre on 9/11.
You can see the video itself on YouTube here and you can read more […]
Posted in Adaptations, Horror on Jun 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
When my colleague Julian Upton asked “Where the Devil are Ken’s Films?” he caused quite a stir. Ken Russell’s fleeting, rotund appearance on Celebrity Big Brother seems to have reminded people how few of this idiosyncratic, iconoclastic director’s films have made it to DVD.
MovieMail’s guerrilla campaign to release - or, at the very least, screen […]
Posted in Horror, News, Sequels on Jun 13th, 2007 No Comments »
It had no humor, virtually no sex, and the music was all towards orchestral music, and no songs, no local stuff at all.
So spake Robin Hardy about the 2006 Nicolas Cage remake of his 1973 directoral debut, The Wicker Man.
Well, now that Robin Hardy has sat through last year’s biggest flop (unless you count Golden […]
Posted in Gay and Lesbian, Interview, Politics, Reviews on Jun 5th, 2007 No Comments »
When I first heard about Hedwig and the Angry inch (2001), John Cameron Mitchell’s first feature film, I thought it sounded awful.
The tale of an East German boy who has a botched sex change (hence the Angry Inch…) so he can marry an American soldier and elope to the West, where he tries to make […]