Touch isn’t the kind of show that’s likely to change your life. Nor is it that kind which will inspire obsession. But it possesses a few factors that demand that you pay attention, and show it some interest, and come back for more. The writing is — at times — Read More
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of Stranger than Fiction is the characterization at play – and in this instance, those living in the real world are strikingly more interesting than those being written. The title, in this sense, is more than appropriate. Harold Crink is as bland as he is Read More
A few years after Darren Aronofsky introduced himself with Pi, he came out with The Fountain – a story which spans tho usands of years, interchanging between three different generations which link together to form a single, completed portrait dealing with a series of higher concepts – and namely, it Read More
Hyde Park on Hudson came out around the same time as Spielberg’s Lincoln. And it was interesting to observe how each was received – particularly in light of the fact that, compared to one another, each was in an entirely different category of work. Roger Michell is perhaps most famous Read More
With scenarios that involve men selling their homes for women who don’t even know their names, a dog whose idea of a good time involves fishing for ducks and individual downfalls brought on by endless moral and philosophical ponderings, Mann Tut Was Mann Kann could only ever be a piece Read More
The cinematography in Godfrey Reggio’s films provides enough to sustain; but the messages behind the collective images turn them into apocalyptic lamentations, laden with regret and despair – resulting in two devastatingly beautiful works. Koyaanisqatsi, roughly translated as “life out of balance” fuses images of earth, of nature, of human Read More
The credits take a while to kick in. For the opening sequence, Jim Jarmusch places a camera outside a car window and drives across various neighbourhoods in inner city New York with Tom Waits’ classic Jockey Full of Bourbon playing out behind. This is when two of the three central Read More
The Joneses is an enjoyable satire which pleases, but never wholly hits the spot. Or perhaps one is forced into believing it doesn’t, because it starts off so strongly. In fact, as an idea, the bulk is near perfect. As the concept smoothly falls into place, the intelligence of the Read More
Mother’s Red Dress is a peculiarly interesting experience because it never strays from the filmmaker’s head. A highly personal piece of work, it seems that the entire script has been pieced together by loose fragments of memory and vague imaginations – which work to in some way reflect a bigger Read More
The Place Beyond the Pines is split into three acts. Each act makes up its own microfilm, but combined piece together a powerful and poetic epic which plunges into a world of crime and inner torment; manhood and fatherhood – exploring the lives of four different male characters over two Read More
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