Review: Dog Eat Dog – “A mad film for a mad world”
Paul Schrader’s auteurist obsession with decadence and bruised masculinity reaches its most elaborate with Dog Eat Dog, a film brazenly...
Read MoreReview: Inferno – “All a bit of an unpleasant mess”
The Robert Langdon series (is that what we’re calling this?) has perpetually appropriated the James Bond formula – picturesque...
Read MoreReview: Blood Father – “Mel Gibson has resurrected himself on screen”
Mel Gibson has become an easy target and a gold mine for the salacious-seeking press. Almost anything he says, however uncontroversial –...
Read MoreReview: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – “A wonderful fairy tale experience”
It’s difficult to think of a more suitable Hollywood auteur for such literary adaptation as this. Surely when author Ransom Rigg’s was...
Read MoreReview: Sausage Party – “Far more inventive and intelligent than you may have assumed”
Back in the early 60’s, Alfred Hitchcock had the balls to show a toilet for the first time on film. He even flushed it. Back then censors...
Read MoreReview – Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
How far is too far? What limits should there be, if any, when it comes to art and self-expression? These are just some of the questions...
Read MoreReview: Crazy About Tiffany’s
“Don’t you just love it!?” enthuses Audrey Hepburn as she flounces through the titular store of Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961). You...
Read MoreReview: The Legend of Tarzan
The Tarzan concept as we all know it – the aristocratic offspring of a British Lord adopted and raised by apes to become a superhuman...
Read MoreReview: Heart of a Dog
On the occasions that this writer struggles to sleep, amongst an advisory collection of music is Lou Reed’s ambient album Hudson River...
Read MoreReview: Kill Command – “Predator meets The Terminator”
If you ever wanted to see the plot of two Arnie classics collide like two giant biceps, then lo and behold Kill Command. Predator meets...
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