Mysterious Skin
Mysterious Skin is a terrifyingly brilliant drama by Gregg Araki. Dealing with the difficult topic of child abuse, it follows two boys: nervous, quiet Brian (Bradey Corbet) who believes he […]
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Is First Blood an anti war film?
First Blood follows John Rambo, a Vietnam veteran searching for one of his old army pals. The people of a small town don’t take kindly to Rambo, however, as the local police arrest […]
You’re Next
I wish I’d been around in the ’80s. Sure there’d be Thatcherism and bad hair to contend with, but there’d be a new slasher film in the cinema every week. […]
Once Upon a Time in America
This is Sergio Leone’s gangster tale of epic proportions which follows a group of friends from their New York childhood in the 1920s through their underworld dealings over the next […]
Once Upon a Time in the West
After he made the dollars trilogy, Sergio Leone could have been satisfied to leave the Western alone, having made arguably one of the greatest trilogies in cinematic history. He returned […]
What Maisie Knew
Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, this new drama is a modernisation of a novel by Henry James. Onata Aprile plays Maisie, a child stuck in the middle of her […]
Brazil
Much in the same way it’s uninteresting to review a film by Hitchcock or Kubrick and describe it as good, it’s equally a statement of the obvious to describe a […]
Bug
Not to be confused with the Adam Buxton show of the same name, Bug is a 2006 horror film directed by William Friedkin about an alcoholic woman (Ashley Judd) and a paranoid […]
Strictly Classified Part 9: What We’ve Learnt
We’ve reached the end of our sojourn into surveillance and if we weren’t worried about being watched before we’re completely convinced now. Stop reading this and do a little wave […]
On iPlayer: Eastern Promises
David Cronenberg is one of my favourite directors and now you have no excuse for ignoring my recommendations, because 2007’s Eastern Promises is currently on iPlayer. After a Russian teenager dies […]
