Tag: Film Review Fridays
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Tron: Legacy – Film Review Fridays
‘Tron: Legacy’ is a film desperately calling out for a 4K release. Powerful IMAX visuals that are bound to trigger something from your childhood imagination. It’s as if Joseph Kosinski reached deep within a child’s membrane, like Flynn reaching into Quorra’s and painted a gorgeous hyper-noir backdrop just to play in. But against this backdrop…
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My Own Private Idaho – Film Review Fridays
This Road Will Never End: An Elegy to Gus Van Sant’s ‘My Own Private Idaho’ As I write this, it’s 31 years to the day that River Phoenix died. October 31st, 1993. That makes it 31 years to the day that someone truly important to me died, and so it feels only fitting that I…
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Beau Is Afraid of The Thing – Double Feature Film Review Friday
Beau Is Afraid (2023) dir. Ari Aster I believe Social Horror is one of the more underrated, underappreciated horror subgenres. Whereas most horror films focus on a specific figure or community as villains, social horror focuses on reframing the world so that you unexpectedly become the villain. Protagonists can wake up one morning to find…
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The Night Of The Hunter – Film Review Fridays
The Night of the Hunter (1955) dir. Charles Laughton “Ah, little lad, you’re staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand? The story of good and evil?” Charles Laughton’s 1955 expressionistic masterpiece has, since its initial release, defied the typical categorisation attributed to films from critics and…
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Shame – Film Review Friday
We all want to be wanted, we all want to be desired, to be someone else’s drug. It’d be nice to be sexually revered. We hear differing opinions like “sex is poison” and “sex is power” or “sex is life”. That little endorphin kick as you and your partner become one in a single ever-lasting…
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Flash Gordon and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind – Double Feature Review
Space. The far reaches of the universe. What lies beyond our galaxy? Is there anyone out there? Who sent out the alien signal in 1977? Mason Horsley is off to investigate the sudden disappearance of famed football legend Flash Gordon and crazed lunatic Hans Zarkov. Daniel Fagan has already left for America to interview Roy…
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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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‘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…
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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…