Director Terrence Malick’s most personal project is the Tree of Life, winner of the Palme D’Or at Cannes, and a project that he had been harboring for a long time, and many could argue that he has been possibly building up to with his slow evolution of films that predate this. His debut feature 1972’s Badlands…
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5 – The Man Who Wasn’t There This Coen film had always intrigued me, but when it had first come out, although I had enjoyed it, I was mostly obsessed with the Big Lebowski and Fargo, with this film taking a back seat. Its only in the last three or four years that I have…
Based on Cartoonist James Thurber’s 1939 short story of the same name, Ben Stillers’ The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty is the second cinematic version to grace the screen, the first being the 1947 version starring Danny Kaye as the stories protagonist. First printed in the New Yorker in 1939, the Walter Mitty in Thurber’s…
The seventies was always my favorite era for movies. It took a gritty and often dark turn away from the convention and the melodrama of the failing studio system, and spoke out to the unsung audience of the youth, angered and uncertain after Vietnam and Watergate, fueled by the free love of the swinging sixties,…
Released in 1999 M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense was known for having one of the best movie twists in cinema history. I recall watching this films at the cinema all those many years ago and hopeing that I would see it coiming before it did, but alas… I did not! The fact that I…
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I have always been a bit weird when it comes to films and books. I usually have several books on the go at once, which I kind of pick up and put down with chore-like disinterest, and have to be in the right frame of mind to watch films, which usually means that most ‘film…
Ian Fleming’s debut novel Casino Royale (buy Flemings Casino Royale here), first published in 1953, introduces us to the British Secret Services newest 00 agent on his first assignment to the Casino Royale, where his mission was to gamble against and bankrupt SMERSH agent Le Chiffre. The book, written over 50 years ago, is a…
Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead. It’s the middle of the nineties, and thanks to a Mr Tarantino, gangsters are all the rage again – not just hardened, ruthless and realistic gangsters, but light-hearted make believe gangsters who epitomise cool. The cinemas were full of them and Things To Do In Denver, definately…
In 1982, 13 years before the boffins at Pixar revealed Toy Story to the world, Disney released Tron, Steven Lisbergers groundbreaking masterpiece. Part computer animation, part live action and wholly original, it followed the story of Kevin Flynn, played by a youthful Jeff Bridges, as a computer genius who’s work was stolen by a rival…
Devilishly dark, frightfully funny and shamefully honest, “God Bless America” is a great social black comedy that skilfully highlights the degradation of America’s ideology’s and decline in moral standards as prompted by a dumbing down of television and media. Writer / director / comedian Bobcat Goldthwait once again tells a story that’s as close to…
You’ll Believe a Man Can Fly, boasted the tagline back in 1978 for Richard Donner’s cinematic realisation of the classic DC comic book hero, Superman. The first really successful and serious comic strip adaptation, Donners Superman was indeed convincing and groundbreaking in its day. Superman, or more specifically DC comics was a subsidiary of Warner…
Not since Terrence Malick’s “Tree Of Life” have I watched a film so visually mesmerising yet as heavily dependent on the viewer’s interpretation and understanding of the medium as this. Ok, so this film isn’t quite as abstract, but it does stand at a good distance from more conventional movies of this subject matter. The…
Spielberg’s fourth feature was by far his most adventurous movie yet, and being his own story, his most personal so far, too. It was a special effects extravaganza, with 2001 A Space Oddessy’s Douglas Trumble as visual effects supervisor and Joe Alves, who had worked with Spielberg on Jaws, being the production designer. And with…
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