Movies

  It’s renovation time at the Stargate my friends! But lest this conjures up images of Daniel Jackson, Colonel O’Neill and Apophis rolling up their sleeves and giving the Ancients-spawned wormhole-creating devices a good old sand back and re-paint, let me assure you that what is really afoot is a Continue Reading

  It could be said, in what is admittedly a gross simplification, that the world is divided into two diametrically opposed groups – aspiring idealists who believe they can make a real difference to the world in which they live, and cynical pragmatists who see no hope for society’s redemption, Continue Reading

  For a movie that pivots, philosophically at least, around the fact that life is best lived in its moments of searing drama, a conceit dreamt up by the editor of Xavier (Romain Dupris), a successful novelist billed as the “next Proust”, Chinese Puzzle is largely a bubbly, whimsical New Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT In “The Grand Seduction,” the only hope for the tiny outport of Tickle Head is a new Petrochemical plant, but in order to qualify for the bid they need to prove they have a resident doctor. When fate sends Dr. Paul Lewis (Kitsch) their way, unemployed fisherman Murray Continue Reading

  It’s always fun to play around with an established property, be it a song, film, TV show or book, or meme. In fact, creatively re-interpreting someone else’s pop culture darling is a mainstay of the current entertainment landscape, with technology giving every would be Spielberg or Kanye the chance Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Magic in the Moonlight is a romantic comedy about an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle. Personal and professional complications ensue. The film is set in the south of France in the 1920s against a backdrop of wealthy mansions, the Côte d’Azur, jazz joints and Continue Reading

  I like to think of movie posters as the windows to a film’s soul. A well-designed poster should be a glimpse, a suggestion of what might await you, and nothing more. Truly good posters of course, like masterful trailers, don’t lay it all out on the artistic table remembering Continue Reading

  There is always a pleasing sense of nuance and sensitivity in John Turturro’s films, a sense that his characters are not simply there to provide fodder for an exploitative dramatic narrative, that they matter and he cares about them. Granted every writer harbours understandable feelings of parental concern about Continue Reading

  It is no surprise that the latest feature from British director (and one time star of quirky sitcom The IT Crowd) Richard Ayoade is a overwhelmingly grim affair. Styled as a black comedy, the screenplay for the thematically and visually dark film about a corporate drone worker Simon James Continue Reading