There’s a strangely erotic atmosphere in Chloe which becomes evident from as early as the opening scene and Amanda Seyfried’s first few lines. Based on Anne Fontaine’s Nathalie, Chloe makes its way through sexual fantasies and heartaches, broken egos and insecurities, before it lands on obsessions and fatal mistakes. Atom Read More

Don’t ask me what I Heart Huckabees is about – I really couldn’t help you. I can’t offer any insight into what the title means, or what the film is trying to say, so I’m not going to pretend and I’ll save us both the time. Don’t ask and don’t Read More

On one hand, Cashback plays with all the levels of romance there are, from cheap jokes to lasting heartbreak.  On the other, it doesn’t become truly invested in any of them.  Take its opening shot, for example: lead character Ben’s ex-girlfriend screaming and throwing a lamp at him in slow-motion 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

After watching, and thoroughly enjoying, The Kid, I felt it was an appropriate time to watch Richard Attenborough’s Chaplin. This biographical film displays the life of Charlie Chaplin from his difficult childhood, his rise to success to his personal struggles with his work and his women. The film has a Read More

There are portraits that capture their subjects in moments of repose: total stillness without a hint of animation, as though they would always hold that one position — a poise and expression with everything the observer needs to know.  The dollying camera of Last Year at Marienbad turns its own Read More

In recent years we have been exposed to countless remakes of horror films. The majority of the horror films that are being churned out seem to be “re-imaginings” of American horror films from the nineteen seventies. Rob Zombie’s dull reworking of John Carpenter’s Halloween has led to the birth of 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

Spielberg’s Minority Report contains some of science fiction cinema’s most accurate depictions of future technology. The film’s realistic vision of 2054 emphasises some of the moral questions that the film decides to ask. Precrime, a company dedicated to eliminating murder and violent crime from the streets, uses three gifted individuals, Read More