The old adage that it’s difficult to destroy a good story with poor style but it’s almost impossible to rescue a bad story with great style holds firmly true with the latest Saw movie, which is an endlessly dull repetition of hyper-stylised gore. But with an opening weekend box-office in the USA of more than […]
Walking the complex line between social commentary and historical narrative with extreme delicacy, Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta concludes her three-part Elements trilogy with the exquisitely beautiful and emotionally charged story of a group of widows confined to an ashram in colonial India.
Delayed for more than five years by conservative Indian groups who objected to […]
Slicker than a gathering of gangsters and far too clever for its own good, The Wrong Man is a very stylish, very ingenious revenge thriller with touches of black humour and great performances from a strong cast.
Slevin (Josh Hartnett) is the wrong man, hauled alternately before opposing crime bosses Schlomo (Ben Kingsley ) and The […]
Film noir is often deliberately confusing, compensating with a dark brooding style and richly tortured characters strung out in complex relationships. Black Dahlia director Brian De Palma gets too obsessed with the look - filling the screen with busy police stations, busy L.A. streets, and people busily lighting up - to notice that the story […]
Powered by
WordPress2.2.2