…it’s total shit. Honestly, it really is shit. It’s a shit film for lots of reasons, which I will painstakingly rake over presently, but first an explanation for this post’s sub-heading. The only reason I even saw The Guest was because of the reviews. I’d seen the posters for it (well, I’d seen ads onlineContinue reading “Film Review: The Guest, and I don’t care what anyone else says…”
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Film Review:Under the Skin
Much has been written of Jonathan Glazer’s return to directing, after a 9-year absence, and even more has been written about not only Scarlett Johannsen’s seemingly against-type casting, but more still about her full frontal scenes. I confess that I had read none of this hype and hysteria, in an attempt to avoid giving anyContinue reading “Film Review:Under the Skin”
Film Review: The Day of the Jackal
I’ll put my hands up here and admit that I am in awe, not only of this film, but of its lead actor, Edward Fox, the Jackal himself. I make this admission so that you can accept from word go that this is not an impartial and purely technical review. It is, in essence, aContinue reading “Film Review: The Day of the Jackal”
Valdez Is Coming – Elmore Leonard
We all know a bit of Elmore Leonard, even if we don’t realise that we do. Long before I read his books, I’d seen the films that’ve poured out from his multitude of novels, short stories and screenplays, and it’s hard to appreciate just how much he’s produced. Born in 1925 Leonard grew up inContinue reading “Valdez Is Coming – Elmore Leonard”
Let the Right One In/Let Me In
It’s a constant disappointment to me that English speaking peoples cannot watch films in other languages. It both confuses me and is no surprise whatsoever. The dichotomy here is centered around the fact that it’s simple and commonplace to read a subtitle, for it is simply a sentence or two, but that I know fullContinue reading “Let the Right One In/Let Me In”
Fight Club (film, not book)
>The film indeed. For it is this, and not the book, that has seared itself onto the public consciousness. In a multi-media age even the DVD of Fight Club seems old fashioned now, but the book is a practical irrelevance for too many people, so I’ll park that for now. Even Chuck Palahnuick himself wasContinue reading “Fight Club (film, not book)”
Tombstone
Right, let’s not mess around here, I love Gunfight at the OK Corral. Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, great. But this film is something else altogether. It’s not so much a remake as an improvement and, yes, I dare say an improvement, because it’s just a better looking, directed, scripted, acted, produced and presented film. HandsContinue reading “Tombstone”
Unforgiven – Clint Eastwood
>The great thing about Clint Eastwood is that he’s great. Aside from some admittedly embarrassing films in the 70s and 80s when that odd woman Sandra Locke had her claws into him, he’s been pure gold. It says something about a man when people refer to other people as being a bit like you. ‘He’sContinue reading “Unforgiven – Clint Eastwood”
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