Rash of Bacon Part 4: Flatliners
Flatliners finally gave us the pairing everyone had been waiting for: Joel Schumacher of Batman and Robin and Kevin Bacon from those Kevin Bacon adverts. Eat your heart out Scorsese and […]
Tag Archives: Retro review
On iPlayer: Good Night, and Good Luck
Set in McCarthy era America, Good Night, and Good Luck is George Clooney’s 2005 drama based on true events – there are no ghosts in it, unless you count the spectre of […]
On iPlayer: Tsotsi
Tsotsi is a 2005 adaptation of the novel of the same name, written and directed by South African Gavin Hood. When Tsotsi (Afrikaans for “thug”) steals a car, he doesn’t realise there’s […]
Shitter Island
2010 was a big year for Leonardo DiCaprio, playing not one but two psychologically wounded widowers. There was Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi blockbuster Inception and Martin Scorsese’s mystery thriller Shutter Island. In Shutter Island, DiCaprio […]
Dirty Pretty Things
Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a doctor by trade, but since illegally migrating to the UK he works as a cab driver and a hotel night security officer, living in fear […]
A Single Man
A Single Man follows an English professor called George (Colin Firth) as he attempts to live his life following the death of his partner Jim (Matthew Goode). A moving drama, […]
Duel- An analogy for the internet troll
Every time I watch Spielberg’s superb debut Duel I’m blown away by the brilliance of its simplicity. The whole film is essentially one long car chase and pure suspense from start to […]
The Breakfast Club
Welcome to a new feature in which I finally get round to watching a film that I really should have seen by now, in this case The Breakfast Club – John Hughes’ […]
Meeting Evil
In Meeting Evil, estate agent John (Luke Wilson), is shaken out of his mundane suburban life when a mysterious stranger (Samuel L Jackson dressed as a Quaker) knocks on his […]
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
In John McNaughton’s debut feature, Michael Rooker plays Henry – by day a soft-spoken pest exterminator, by night a ruthless serial killer. Made in 1986 but not released until 1990, due […]
