Christopher Misch's Posts

Review: The Cove

by Christopher Misch

Ever since the very first broadcast of the hit television show Flipper back in 1964, our fascination with dolphins began. But this fascination of these seemingly playful creatures has come at a tremendous cost, as the capturing and training dolphin industry...

Review: What Time Is It There?

by Christopher Misch

In a return to the themes so prevalent in his life’s work, Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang once again explores loneliness and alienation in the modern urban environment in his 2002 feature, What Time Is It There?. The film is the...

Review: The Day The Earth Stood Still

by Christopher Misch

Stop right there! I know exactly what you're thinking. You're thinking why on earth did you take the time to watch the remake especially giving the fact that you still haven't even seen the original?  And truth be told,...

Review: The Good The Bad The Weird

by Christopher Misch

Just when you've figured you've seen everything the western has to offer, along comes Korean filmmaker Kim Ji-woon to add a little spice and a lot of humour to this at times formalistic genre. Set in the 1930s amongst...

Review: Season of the Witch (2011)

by Christopher Misch

Cinema 2011 just got off to a bumpy start with Season of the Witch, but with the current career trajectory of actor Nicholas Cage I guess this isn't much of a surprise to most informed moviegoers.  It has been more then...

Review: Off World (2010)

by Christopher Misch

As we gently glide over a bed of water towards the shorelines of Smokey Mountain and witness with our own eyes the rising cloud of methane gas spewing from this ‘two million tonne garbage heap’, we soon discover how...

Review: Hunger (2008)

by Christopher Misch

I am not reluctant to admit that the majority of my knowledge and understanding appertaining to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and their fight for independence has accrued largely in part from films relating to the conflict.  Films ranging...

Review: The Green Hornet (2011)

by Christopher Misch

Michel Gondry's adaptation of the popular comic book and 1930's radio program The Green Hornet pairs Hollywood funnyman, Seth Rogan (Funny People, Knock Up) with one of Asia's biggest stars, Jay Chou (Curse of the Golden Flower, Secret) and the result...

Review: A Single Man (2009)

by Christopher Misch

On the morning of November 30th 1962, George Falconer (Colin Firth) after awaking once again to another painful realization that his long time partner, Jim, was killed in a car crash eight months earlier, he comes to the conscious...

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