If someone were to tell me Cosmopolis was a film inhabited by robots, if the big reveal at the end of this enigma were that aliens had taken control of these humans and were manipulating them for some sort of extra-terrestrial experiment, maybe I would have enjoyed what I was wat... Read More »
Animals are the best, aren’t they? They’re uncomprehending of the things around them to our extent but they develop these relationships like we do—with other animals as well as us. Animals are lovely creatures on the whole and you can bond with anything as long as you show it aff... Read More »
The plot of this documentary alone is one of incredible frustration. After reading it, it’s shocking enough as it is and when you finally press play, it only gets worse and your feeling of disgust intensifies. There are a lot of problems with the armed forces, many of which are i... Read More »
A film peculiar in its elemental inconsistency, the effectiveness of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil hinges largely on how accepting one is of both its patch quilt tonality and jerky cadence. Observed from a distance, Gilliam’s 1985 Orwellian tableau appears an admixture of genre cues an... Read More »
We’ve all had the fantasy to be sucked into an alternate reality. Whether it be a game, film, TV programme or a book, we’ve all wanted it to happen. The idea of being sucked into Zelda is probably one that a lot of people have fantasised about. Being sucked into a world as a hero... Read More »
388 Arletta Avenue tells the story of James (Nick Stahl) and Amy (Mia Kirshner), a not-so-happily married couple that live normal lives. Or so they think. They’ve been the targets of a nameless, faceless stalker that enjoys spying, and filming them all too well. This person even ... Read More »
A Cat in Paris is an animated film that is audacious enough to fall outside of the technique and subject matter of Disney and Miyazaki, whose combined forces dominate the style of the few animated features that slip through the cracks in a culture attracted to the video game worl... Read More »
The Invisible War is one of those rare documentaries that not only exposes an unseen issue, but does so in a timely manner when action can still be taken. It moves ahead with its nonpartisan message with statistics directly from the United States’ own government studies and outl... Read More »
For a film concerning toxic societal encroachment, the environs of Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend are markedly pastoral, landscapes largely unfettered by human insistence. To be sure, the vistas contained therein, though spackled chromatically with pop-minded flourishes, focus mostly... Read More »
On paper, in terms of stats, Hide Away seems like a slam dunk for the players involved, both behind and in front of the camera. You’ve got the obvious talents of the cast, director Chris Eyre who’s no stranger to drama (Smoke Signals), and shiny button of approval from the SXSW f... Read More »
Sunset Blvd. finally gets its close-up on Blu-ray. As one of the most cynical glimpses of Hollywood to ever hit the silver screen, Billy Wilder's satiric masterpiece is classic cinema at its finest. Long revered as one of the finest films ever made, this seminal work marks a care... Read More »
That Rosemary’s Baby is a work that dynamically commingles youth and age at a moment when Hollywood found itself in transition in the late 1960s is a bit of an understatement. This detail is arguably fundamental to Rosemary’s Baby’s cinematic and cultural magnetism. With the film... Read More »
When the news hit that an animated version of Frank Miller’s epic storyline The Dark Knight Returns was being developed, there were mixed reactions. Some felt that a single movie would not be enough to capture everything that makes the graphic novel so wonderful. Others worried t... Read More »
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