Posted in New releases, Reviews on Apr 8th, 2008 No Comments »
I can’t wait for Oliver Stone’s forthcoming W., his biopic of the 43rd President of the United States.
We’ve already had a Clinton movie, the superb Primary Colors (1998), so I think it’s time the members of the Bush administration took their turn on the silver screen.
Just thinking about W.’s cast makes me excited: Josh Brolin […]
Posted in Horror, New releases, Reviews, Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2008 No Comments »
I love George Romero and Dario Argento. Together, their work represented some of the best of what pure horror could achieve if it put its mind to it.
Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and its sequels were smart, satirical slow-burning frighteners, suggesting that mankind was doomed long before the dead took to their feet […]
Posted in Gay and Lesbian, New releases, Reviews on Jan 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Fans of the great William ‘Exorcist’ Friedkin are in for a treat: on 25 February, not one, but two! of his films are due for release on DVD: Bug (2006) and Cruising (1980).
Bug is about a couple who lock themselves in a motel room, convinced that they have been infested with blood-sucking aphids.
Cruising has […]
Posted in Blockbusters, Horror, New releases on Jan 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
One of my favourite films of last year was The Host, a Korean monster movie with a heart. Aptly dubbed “Little Miss Sunshine vs. Godzilla”, it’s about a family of misfits who must unite to rescue their beloved daughter when she is kidnapped by a giant tadpole on the banks of the Han River.
The Host […]
Posted in New releases, Rant, World Cinema on Oct 9th, 2007 2 Comments »
As those who know me will attest, I am normally quite a calm person, but certain things make me fly into an uncontrollable rage.
The first of these is lupins. The other is the use of transliterated English words in the titles of Japanese films.
Let me explain what I mean.
A few days ago, I was adding […]
Posted in Blockbusters, New releases, Reviews on Jul 31st, 2007 3 Comments »
Still reeling from the horrors of Harry Potter, I decided that a bit of sympathetic magic was in order.
If a blockbuster had shaken my faith in movies, I reasoned, then perhaps TWO blockbusters might cure my malaise?
So Saturday morning was The Simpsons Movie (in 2D!). Although I came to the Simpsons late in life - […]
Posted in Adaptations, New releases on Jul 11th, 2007 7 Comments »
What a surprise!
Just as we were going to press with our new catalogue, a paper aeroplane wrapped round a brick sailed through the window and tapped me just south of my left ear.
I unwrapped it to find a simple message:
“Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet is coming to DVD this August!”
I was excited not because I’ve seen […]