See cinema differently
Director: Pablo Larraín Stars: Gael García Bernal, Antonia Zegers, Néstor Cantillana TV advertising is a powerful thing, exerting the kind of influence in our lives that we'd probably be loath to fully admit. At Christmas a great number of people I know were delighted by a Coca-Cola publicity stunt that had rolled into town. The …
Director: Terrence Malick Stars: Javier Bardem, Olga Kurylenko, Ben Affleck The Tree Of Life, Terrence Malick's audience-splitting 2011 Palme D'Or winner, was the man's fifth film in a 40 year career. For those watching who look forward to seeing what he comes up with next, patience is a prerequisite. Inevitably then, the arrival of To The Wonder …
Year: 1997 Director: Hayao Miyazaki Genre: Animation / Fantasy I've been slacking. These pages have been a little sparse on new content the past couple of weeks compared to the usual stream of updates and waffle. The cause is not a lack of enthusiasm. The gamer inside me, buried for the best part of a …
Director: Sacha Gervasi Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Scarlett Johansson, Helen Mirren Biopics of recent figures, especially celebrities or people of notable fame, tend to fall into one of two camps. There are those that attempt to encompass the whole life, bullet-pointing the key moments, fretfully hoping to build a strong narrative out of the patchy weave …
Director: Rich Moore Stars: Sarah Silverman, John C. Reilly, Mindy Kaling I'll admit it, Wreck-It Ralph was my second choice of movie this evening. Work commitments kept me from a one-off screening of Pablo Larraín's No. Not to be deprived of entertainment of some kind, and with a blog to keep updated an' all, I decided to …
Year: 2002 Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Stars: Adam Sandler (Barry Egan), Emily Watson (Lena Leonard), Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Dean Trumbell), Mary Lynn Rajskub (Elizabeth), Luis Guzmán (Lance) Genre: Romance / Comedy It begins with a man in a blue suit sat at a desk in a seemingly vast space. Barry Egan, a nervous, twitchy entrepeneur …
Directors: Adam Wingard, Ti West, Joe Swanberg, Matt Betinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, David Bruckner, Chad Villella, Justin Martinez, Glenn McQuaid Stars: Hannah Fierman, Joe Swanberg, Sophia Takal Fuck you, Paranormal Activity. Seriously, the phenomenal success of Oren Peli's dismal micro-budget found footage movie in 2007 has opened the floodgates for a slew of creatively moribund shaky-cam …
Director: Kim Jee-woon Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jaimie Alexander The prospect of Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to the big screen full-time has been a joy to behold, there's no denying that, but let's not play this like I've been waiting for him to come home from a war or something. Cinema, even action cinema, has …
The Lost Highway Hotel 