Browsing: Film
100 Discs of Christmas #35 – Paranoid Park (2007)
Adapted from Blake Nelson’s best selling novel and shot masterfully in director Gus Van Sant’s…
100 Discs of Christmas #34 – Antichrist (2009)
An eerie yet gorgeous tapestry of lingering close-ups; parallels, cuts and slow-motion photography, Lars Von…
100 Discs of Christmas #33 – Crash (1996)
Disturbing yet allegorical, emotionally shallow yet erotically fierce, David Cronenberg’s crushingly warped world of sex,…
100 Discs of Christmas #32 – Choke (2008)
Given the buzz and aftertaste of Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk’s writing, it was only…
100 Discs of Christmas #31 – The Raid (2012)
Any film critic worth their spurs will tell you that the overall quality of a…
Union Films: What’s Coming Up This Week (15/10/12)
You cant say Union Films don’t accommodate for everyone and this week just goes to…
BFI London Film Festival Report from the Frankenweenie Press Conference + Presentation Masterclass
I shall save my full thoughts on the film Frankenweenie for my general review. This…
100 Discs of Christmas #30 – Funny Games U.S. (2008)
Vindictive. Exploitive. Malicious. Audacious. Psychotic. Neurotic. Subversive. Oppressive. Impressive. Disturbing. Outstanding?…Perhaps. Pointless?….Perhaps. For esoteric and…
Review: Frankenweenie ★★★★☆
Tim Burton’s return to stop motion animation is a terrific success. I am overjoyed to…
Review: Ruby Sparks ★★★★☆
“A love story so impossible… it must be true” is the movie promo’s incredibly dreamy…
100 Discs of Christmas #29 – Taken (2008)
Tzvetan Todorov’s model of narrative equilibrium and the action film go hand-in-hand. Harmony, disruption, restoration.…
Review: Pusher ★☆☆☆☆
Pusher started life as a Danish thriller directed by Nicholas Winding Refn. It then became…
Christmas Film Archive Competition!
Everyone (well, very nearly everyone) loves Christmas and Disney, so we thought the perfect way…
100 Discs of Christmas #28 – The Mist (2008)
The Mist starts off as a routine horror flick, with deliberately-B movie style monsters, blood…