Paying homage to the classic horror film Night of the Living Dead, director David Slade (working from a graphic novel by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith) locates the threat of invading evil in the small Alaskan town of Barrow in deepest winter when the sun goes down for a whole month. It’s a clever idea […]
Amongst the global clash of religious and social systems and the local clash of class systems, the ordinary people of the world – fathers and sons, boys and their best friends – try to find a daily life of comfort and continue their own rituals and rhythms in peace. Wrapping all these levels of storytelling […]
You have to hand it to Sir Ridley – he sure knows how to make a film. After nailing the science fiction genre (Alien, Blade Runner), the road movie (Thelma & Louise), the war film (Black Hawk Down), and the sword and sandal epic (Gladiator), he has turned his considerable talents to the gangster genre, […]
Charlie Wilson’s War opens with provocative and nationalistic sentimentality but then quickly finds its feet with some very cleverly scripted dark humour. It ends up however - rather like the foreign policy it is dealing with – in a rather messy last act, requiring a kind of cover-it-all-up and hope-for-the-best ending.
Based on the […]
Schadenfreude - pleasure in the misfortune of others - is a terrific expression but it’s a terrible act. Still, I am man enough to admit that it is a part of my character, and I think one of the reasons I love disaster movies so much. Who didn’t get tingles watching New York about to […]
Like John Laws being forced to admit before singing the praises of some brand name that they’re actually paying him, I feel that I am forced to confess in advance of this review that I am completely smitten with Katherine Heigel. She is hands-down the best thing about TV’s Grey’s Anatomy, was self-deprecating and hilarious […]
Fashion is a funny thing. Flouro came back last year, when I thought we’d safely kissed it goodbye in the late eighties. The Spice Girls are back, as is Dannii Minogue, looking strangely better than ever. As a culture, we are endlessly recycling the past. But which tired old studio executive thought it would be […]
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