Nia Vardalos made her name writing and starring in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which was the sleeper hit of 2002. ‘Sleeper hit’ is an industry term meaning ‘nobody thought this would make a dollar but thanks for all your money’. I don’t predict the same kind of business for My Life in Ruins, a […]
Over the last twenty years, film adaptations of Booker prize winning novels have been few and far between, and rarely a success (The English Patient is the great exception). It’s been ten years since J.M. Coetzee wrote his masterpiece Disgrace – voted the greatest novel of the last 25 years by a collection of English […]
After some indulgent side trips (Grindhouse, Deathproof), Quentin Tarantino is back to form with this World War II fantasy fiasco. It’s mad, it’s bad and it’s thoroughly entertaining, with some of the most disciplined storytelling Tarantino has produced – even though it’s still nearly three hours long (152 minutes at The 2009 Cannes Film […]
When film editor Anthony Buckley saw the first batch of footage for Wake In Fright, he knew he was looking at something very special. It was of a professional kangaroo cull that had been shot by cinematographer John Maclean. “It was beautifully photographed,” says Buckley, recalling the moment back in 1970, “and it was all […]
A moody and thought provoking tale of doppelgangers, Hitchcock and the rise to power of television that defies categorisation with its montage approach to story-telling.
If you can cast your memory back to the good ol’ days of 1970’s trash television, you might remember such titles as H.R. Pufnstuf, The Donny & Marie Show and perhaps even Land of The Lost – a sci-fi adventure series about a family who are sucked down a huge waterfall into an alternative world. […]
This is a delicate and naïve piece of French confection – part love story, part morality tale, and part bedroom farce – all very much in the style of writer-director-actor Emmanuel Mouret – a kind of comatose Woody Allen character, who had considerable international success with Change of Address in 2006.
Coming of age films are a dime a dozen, but you’d be hard pressed to find one that gets it quite a right as Greg Mottola does in his semi-autobiographical film Adventureland. Having just graduated college, James (Jesse Eisenberg) has his life mapped out, beginning with a summer backpacking around Europe, then a degree in […]
With a name like Lesbian Vampire Killers, you imagine this film is going to go one of two ways – either a Sapphic Van Helsing who kills heterosexually identifying vampires, Lesbian Vampire-Killers, or about people who kill gay vampires, Lesbian-Vampire Killers. This is the later. These aren’t your Tarago-driving, Folk Festival ticket holding lesbians, however. […]
John Hamburg made a career of writing and directing truly mediocre comedies (Along came Polly, Meet the Parents) but he successfully punches above his weight with the classy, heart-warming I love you man. Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd) is a real estate agent with aspirations to move into property development though perhaps lacking in […]
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