Tag: film review
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The Apartment – Film Review Fridays
The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder “Ya know, I used to live like Robinson Crusoe; I mean, shipwrecked among 8 million people. And then one day I saw a footprint in the sand, and there you were.” You will never have an experience like watching Billy Wilder’s 1960 masterpiece The Apartment for the first time.…
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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas – Film Review Friday
The drugs hit me at about the halfway mark of the trip. My best mate was driving when I looked up and saw the pterodactyls gliding across the sky I made sure to keep quiet, what could happen if my friend found out? Maybe he’d drive off a cliff in sheer panic and upon impact,…
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The Darjeeling Limited – Film Review Friday
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) dir. Wes Anderson “I wonder if the three of us would’ve been friends in real life. Not as brothers, but as people.” If I had to choose a film from Wes Anderson’s rapidly growing filmography that has aged the finest, it would have to be 2009’s Fantastic Mr Fox, a film…
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The Firm – Film Review Fridays
The Firm (1993) dir. Sydney Pollack “It’s not sexy, but it’s got teeth!” While the 21st century has seen its share of legal thrillers with 2023’s Academy Award winning Anatomy of a Fall, 2007’s Michael Clayton, and 2019’s criminally underseen Dark Waters it was in the 1990’s where legal thrillers made their mark on the…
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Requiem For A Dream – Film Review Fridays
You gaze down at your last hit. It could be a syringe, a tablet, some powder, it could be a beer or a shot of vodka. You try desperately not to grab at it, you’re in cold sweats just thinking about how calm it’ll be when you take it. It’s not about feeling good anymore,…
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Hit Man – Film Review Fridays
“If the ‘self’ is a construct, and it’s all just role play, do you think people can change?” Richard Linklater’s latest foray leads audiences to a road less travelled in the mainstream cinema of today. A road full of rough edges, diminished morality and a leading man who, had this movie been made in the…
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The Zone Of Interest – Film Review Fridays
The Zone of Interest was the area surrounding Auschwitz concentration camp created in 1941 to house SS officers. Right on the other side of the fence, Rudolf Höss and his family lived a privileged life inside a two-storey home with servants, a garden, a pool, access to a stream for fishing and the respect and…
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Blue Velvet – Film Review Fridays
A P.I. walks down a dark, smoky alley, taking a shortcut on the way to a seedy speakeasy. As he walks down, raindrops from this morning’s monsoon fall to the black cobblestone path. The only light coming from the P.I.’s $10 cigarette which he sparks under his ruffled fedora. He takes one inhale, releases it…
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‘First Men In The Moon’ & ‘Planet Of The Apes’ – Double Feature Review
Action! Thrills! Mystery! The cinema of yesteryear never dies! Whether you’re running from the 50 foot woman or exploring the final frontiers on the U.S.S. Enterprise, there’ll always be a case to investigate, a monstrous villain to defeat and heroics to be done! Join Mason Horsley as he takes you on a journey across the…