Category: Film
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When We Were Kings – Film Review Friday
“I done wrestled with an alligator. That’s right. I have wrestled with an alligator. I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail. That’s bad! Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick! I’m so mean I make medicine sick! Bad, fast! Fast! Fast! Last…
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Sleepaway Camp – Film Review Fridays
Sometimes the real horror of a scary movie isn’t the demonic plaything, the alien monster or the immortal butcher who can stand against 5 shotgun blasts to the face. Sometimes the real horror is the evil that men do. When I say that, I don’t mean getting revenge by murdering your high school bullies at…
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Scent Of A Woman – Film Review Fridays
“A very very distant second is a Ferrari. Charlie, give me your hand. This is just the start of your education, son.” – Colonel Frank Slade I can’t explain how this film found a way to my heart. Maybe I was feeling depressed when I saw it for the first time on channel GEM…
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Gene Hackman: A Retrospective on the Greatest – A Film Review Friday Special Presentation
“You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, ‘Why didn’t I choose something else?’ But overall, I’m pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.” For a long while I’ve considered Gene Hackman to be the greatest…
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Friendship On Film – Film Review Friday Triple Feature
The Banshees Of Inisherin (2023) dir. Martin McDonagh – Reviewed by Mason Horsley “Even the worm will turn” – John Heywood It’s a great expression, and one I repeat in my mind regularly. Even the wotOut of fear and out of sick desire. I’m both afraid and…
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Walk Hard – Film Review Fridays
One might consider the music biopic to be a formulaic and easy genre to produce. Of course, it’s an incredibly expensive genre, what with song licences and massive stadium sets to construct, but on paper, the structure feels incredibly similar. A music biopic will usually follow a rags-to-riches story of a famous musician who uses…
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Unbreakable – Film Review Fridays
“I’ve studied the form of comics intimately. I’ve spent a third of my life in a hospital bed… with nothing else to do but read. I believe comics are our last link… to an ancient way of passing on history. The Egyptians drew on walls. Countries all over the world still pass on knowledge through…
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Brüno – Film Review Fridays
My first draft of this review went something like this: ‘Brüno is crude, bigoted, and completely insensitive, and it would be a terrible idea for you to watch it’. I did make the concession that it was funny – the funniest film I saw last year, probably – but reckoned this an inadequate reason to…
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Courtroom Drama Triple Feature – Film Review Fridays
Kramer Vs Kramer (1979) dir. Robert Benton While many courtroom dramas focus on social issues impacting the world on a grand scale, I believe the most effective focus is on smaller, everyday legal issues. While it was incredibly impactful to see such a catastrophic case in ‘Trial Of The Chicago Seven’ and it was heartbreaking…