A Spike Lee Joint: Crooklyn
In December, Spike Lee is remaking Korean sensation Oldboy, so ahead of its release I’m going to be doing a whistle stop tour of some of his films. First up, […]
Author Archives: Alex Chafey
Psycho IV: The Beginning
Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates is like Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. No matter how many times he appears as his defining character, and no matter how low the quality of […]
Psycho III
Shortly after the events of Psycho II, Norman (Anthony Perkins) is still having mummy issues. With his motel now busier than ever, a young ex-nun arrives, who has fled her convent […]
Psycho II
It’s 20 years since Norman (Anthony Perkins) was committed to an institution after carrying out a shower-based bloodbath. Now sane, he is released against the wishes of Lila Loomis (Vera […]
Defiance
In Nazi occupied Poland a group of Jews who have escaped oppression take refuge in the woods. They are led by brothers Tuvia (Daniel Craig) and Zus (Liev Schreiber) who […]
Gravity
Three astronauts are doing a space walk on the exterior of a satellite orbiting the earth, but when a debris storm damages their craft they are sent adrift in space. […]
Blog: The Gravity of the Situation
Gravity has fascinated the human mind since an apple first landed on Newton’s bewigged head. But with an absence of gravity being one of space’s biggest selling points, surprisingly few science fiction […]
Saboteur
In 1942 a worker in a factory (Robert Cummings) making planes for the war effort witnesses an act of sabotage. Being close by at the time, the authorities suspect him […]
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
I’ve never seen a Planet of the Apes movie before, put off by the dodgy rubber masks and by having watched five minutes of the Tim Burton one. Yet Andy […]
On iPlayer: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor of French Elle, suffered a major stroke, leaving him completely paralysed apart from a single eyelid. He painstakingly dictated his memoirs to his assistant, Claude […]
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