What do you remember about the older Batman movies, before Chris Nolan came and took the reins, effectively rebooting the whole franchise and making Batman a dark character that, at least on some level, can be taken seriously? Nipples, crotches, rubber suits, Schwarzenegger and neon colours? Joel Schumacher single-handedly pretty much butchered the series after… [Read more…]
May 23, 2011
Slightly flinchy at times. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in a movie about aliens? Is anyone actually surprised? Most probably think Paul is the third part in Frost-Pegg-Wright’s hugely successful and lauded ’Blood and Ice Cream’ trilogy when it in fact is a buddy-movie by Pegg and Frost alone. According to Pegg the idea originated… [Read more…]
May 23, 2011
Anathema with Awake by Design and North Atlantic Oscillation First off, I’d like to apologise for the absence of new posts on this site. I’ve been quite bogged down with other stuff, and three of my stories I wanted to post here I couldn’t earlier as they were a part of my Magazine production course… [Read more…]
December 22, 2010
”It’s biodigital jazz, man”. That line, delivered by his Dudeness, Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn, pretty much sums up Tron: Legacy. Just like jazz, it’s an experience overall yet consists of brilliant musicians, or areas of production in this analogy, even though you might not appreciate them all and some are better than the others.… [Read more…]
December 20, 2010
This is not your typical Christmas movie, although it is a Christmas movie anyway. Rare Exports is what began in 2003 as a short movie on Youtube about catching a Santa Claus and spawned a sequel short movie in 2005, and has now made its way on the big screen as a full movie, albeit… [Read more…]
December 10, 2010
A movie that begins with a sequence that could be straight from a Tarantino movie or an unholy lovechild of one and a western cannot be bad, right? That’s what you’d assume at least, and that’s what I assumed. Well, I guess there’s a first time for everything. William Monahan’s London Boulevard, based on… [Read more…]
December 6, 2010
Hollywood needs more proper slapstick movies. Long gone are the days of The Marx brothers’ genius comedies that I greatly admire. The thought occurred to me when I was watching The Men Who Stare At Goats, an ensemble comedy starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges, men who are interested in… [Read more…]
December 4, 2010
I have not seen Control, Anton Corbijn’s earlier movie, so the idea of a famous photographer directing a movie is quite interesting. The American is Corbijn’s first foray into fiction, as Control was based on the life of Ian Curtis, the late singer of Joy Division. The American is based on Martin Booth’s novel A… [Read more…]
May 23, 2011
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