How I Live Now
I think all the faults I could find with How I Live Now stem from the position of my perception and not from the film itself. And faults aside, it starts from a position of strength by blaring Amanda Palmer‘s… Continue Reading
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B-Movies A-Hoy! – White House Down & The Call
There are two types of B-movie – the big, brash and bold, and the simple idea followed through until the end – and this double bill provided me with one of each. White House Down is the second ‘terrorists take… Continue Reading
Prisoners
Fans of Denmark’s The Killing will love Prisoners. By which I mean it’s a not very good pot-boiler murder mystery (well, abduction mystery here) that has been made arty (in The Killing’s case this just means subtitled really) which means… Continue Reading
2 Guns
You shouldn’t read anything into the fact that, when playing catch-up on my reviews, I totally forgot I had seen this. It’s actually a really enjoyable diversion. no, it’s not the greatest film in the world, but it’s a highly… Continue Reading
The Frozen Ground
The Frozen Ground seems to think that it is operating in the same league as Zodiac, the outstanding David Fincher film from 2007. Would that it were. As with that film, The Frozen Ground is based on a real life… Continue Reading
Side Effects
It’s difficult to take Steven Soderbergh seriously when he says that he is retiring from making films. Side Effects is his 10th movie since 2006, an absolutely phenomenal rate of production, and his last 4 films have represented perhaps his… Continue Reading
Arbitrage
In the last few years the men and women involved in high finance have taken a battering, and rightly so. Because of their demonisation, we rarely consider these people human, but that’s exactly what debut writer/director Nicholas Jarecki and veteran… Continue Reading
Broken City
Broken City is fine, I suppose. It’s nothing special. It looks glossy, like an episode of CSI or NCIS (though I’ve never seen the latter so I may be way off on that). It’s slick. It does it’s business but… Continue Reading