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Director: Joe Lynch Stars: Salma Hayek, Gabriella Wright, Hiroyuki Watanabe I cast my mind back to my 14-year-old self living in the year 1997, going to school, coming home, listening to Steve Lamacq and John Peel on the radio, playing Nintendo 64 games with friends and watching any VHS we could get our hands on …
Director: Roy Andersson Stars: Viktor Gyllenberg, Charlotta Larsson, Nils Westblom It was Mark Cousins and his epic documentary The Story Of Film which first made me aware of Roy Andersson. In one of the late entries in the series he approached modern cinema and spent a fair amount of time discussing Songs From The Second Floor in …
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Director: Joss Whedon Stars: Chris Hemsworth, James Spader, Aaron Taylor-Johnson Imagine how exhausting it must be being a regular civilian living in any densely populated city in the Marvel universe. You live day-in day-out with the constant threat that, at any moment, a bunch of supernatural acrobatic crime fighters might descend on your bustling home, …
Director: Christopher Butler Stars: Genevieve Sibayan, Joanna Ignaczewska, Louis Labovitch It begins with the prone naked figure of a woman in a blurred out world. A mezzanine place. Who is she? What has happened to her? Within this white questionable expanse we receive flashes of other, more disquieting imagery. Suggestions of violence. The ethereal score …
Director: David Zellner Stars: Rinko Kikuchi, Kanako Higashi, David Zellner "This is a true story" reports Fargo at it's very beginning; an untruth that spun out into the world back in 1996 like so much yarn tumbling down the stairs and is still cascading into today's cinemas, thanks to this wonderful little film from David Zellner. The image …
Director: Ryan Gosling Stars: Ben Mendelsohn, Christina Hendricks, Matt Smith Ryan Gosling's directorial debut Lost River was conceived while the actor was visiting abandoned and derelict areas of Detroit, the story built around his burgeoning desire to express the tumbledown romance of those abandoned neighbourhoods. As such there's a shabby-chic post-apocalyptic twang to the movie, albeit the …
Directors: Chad Stahelski, David Leitch Stars: Alfie Allen, Michael Nyqvist, Keanu Reeves Imagine for a second if, in Die Hard, Hans Gruber not only knew who John McClane was, but knew the reputation he'd grow to have over the next few movies. Exactly how much bad guy shit McClane would put pay to over the years. Exactly …
Aaaaaand we're back. I'm making good time on this today (I have evening plans, believe it or not). At this rate the aforementioned oven foods may not be needed at all. And despite Bring It On Again, I'm still optimistic that there's some fun to be had here. We've got a lot more ground to cover …
It's April 5th 2015. I've been woken up by church bells calling the faithful to celebrate(?) Easter. I'm not a religious person, so instead I'm sat in a room, alone, with all five Bring It On films for the latest in my often-masochistic occasional series of franchise marathons. I'm about to watch all five in a …
Director: James Wan Stars: Nathalie Emmanuel, Jason Statham, Paul Walker It may have taken prior directorial mainstay Justin Lin a few goes to truly nail down the formula, but let's approach Fast & Furious 7 as what it is; the latest entry in a franchise that bears as much resemblance to real life as Guardians Of The …
The Lost Highway Hotel 