Oliver Stone’s W. is the latest instalment in his biographies of American presidents, this time examining the life of George W. Bush, and for all its technical skill and smarts, it is hard to separate the film from the man and read the work objectively. Allow me to show my colours up front – […]
In The Unborn, life is becoming increasingly creepy for Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman). There are things that go bump in her night. Not normal things, but quite possibly the undead spirit of her twin brother who died in the womb. His haunting may have driven her mother to suicide, and may be the result of […]
Conspiracy theory stories – with their loose and dangerous connections, dark unseen forces and heroes tinged with paranoia – should make for excellent cinema, yet the genre has produced surprisingly few good films in the last twenty years – certainly nothing as strong as The Parallax View or All The President’s Men both made in […]
Shot in the dull grey light of a wintry British Columbia, this is an uneven film that shifts from saccharine romance with a spiritual edge to supernatural suspense thriller – never managing to find a consistent tone nor push beyond its safe and melodramatic borders. And although it features the talented Anne Hathaway, Passengers had […]
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