Half Past Dead
With the Expendables rumour mill working at full capacity there’s one name that’s not been mentioned for a while: Steven Seagal. Now we find out why. When I saw a […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Strictly Classified Part 8: V for Vendetta
In V for Vendetta, the UK is ruled by a fascist government – not such an enormous leap of the imagination. That’s a joke, I don’t really think David Cameron is […]
Strictly Classified Part 7: Equilibrium
Another day, another dystopia. In Kurt Wimmer’s 2002 sci-fi film, the world has been devastated by a Third World War, from which the authoritarian state of Libria has emerged. Its […]
Strictly Classified Part 6: Taking Liberties
This documentary outlines the range of ways the Labour government dismantled key civil liberties in the UK between 1997 and 2007. Opening with the story of a small legion of […]
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