Category: Film
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Birdman – Film Review Fridays
I actually had a dream like Birdman once, a year or two ago. Instead of a Broadway theatre, it was a school hall and I went through the same motions as Micheal Keaton. I was directing a play with Edward Norton but he was slowly turning the cast against me. Quite bizarrely, he decided to…
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Licorice Pizza In Society City – Film Review Fridays
5:25 PM. 1 hour, 5 minutes till doors open. I make a mad dash out of work to the car, the rain is splattering down, so I’m careful on my way home, but I still don’t want to be late. Event Cinemas will spam you with 20 minutes worth of trailers and ads that I…
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Bros – Film Review Fridays
Our identity is the most important thing to any of us, who wants a world of clones? It’s important that we don’t take ourselves too seriously, though. I’m a straight white man, I understand attention to all other genders and sexualities isn’t an attack or some plot to alienate and villainise mine. We’re all people,…
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Final Girls – Women Doomed to Live, to Women Made to Survive.
The evolution of ‘Final Girls’ in horror films. Grace La Domas trudges down the steps of her husband’s heritage manor and settles herself down. She oversees the courtyard before her – a scenery of immaculately placed wedding seats; devoid of human activity and untouched by the filth she has endured within the last 24 hours…
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Boys Don’t Cry – Film Review Fridays
We all struggle with identity, being caught between who we want to be and what everyone would prefer us to be. We’ll all come to an age where we don’t have the slightest idea who we are as people. We may realise who we are, act as who we are, but to the dismay and…
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Brokeback Mountain – Film Review Fridays
It can be hard learning new things about yourself, you can live your whole life believing you’re tough, when you find you’re human. You can live your whole life believing you’re generous and kind, only to find there’s a darker side to you, more unforgiving and vengeful. You might wake up one day or finish…
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The Handmaid’s Tale – Film Review Friday
Where will you be at the end of the world? Will you be at home with your family, defending with a double-barrel shotgun? Will you be wandering the streets looking for anyone to answer your frightened calls? Will you be taken prisoner by a gang of mutated, mohawked motorcyclists? Or will you be cast into…
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‘The Double’ / ‘Enemy’ – Film Review Friday
In 2013, two films released, ‘The Double’ and ‘Enemy’ both following the story of a man meeting his doppelganger, much more handsome, much more charismatic, much more powerful in every way. Both films were based on books, ‘The Double’ on a Dostoyevsky novella and ‘Enemy’ on a Saramago novel, both books following almost the exact…
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Almost Famous – Film Review Fridays
We’ve all seen and heard the mad escapades of rock stars. Ozzy Osbourne biting into a live bat onstage, Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue sleeping with the wife of Bruce Dickinson (lead singer of Iron Maiden), Eric Clapton challenging George Harrison to a guitar duel over Harrison’s wife, and I’m sure we’ve all seen Billie…