When it comes to Westerns they don’t go hand in hand with me, it’s like having Charlton Heston the chairman of the anti-gun lobby. I never really jumped on board …
Blu-ray Review – Blackthorn(2011) Read More
For years (and probably still by some) he’s been loathed by film snobs but loved and praised like a God by cinephiles Roger Corman. 400 films over six decades to …
Blu-ray Review – Corman’s World:Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel (2011) Read More
Throughout the years the average working man and woman have been lived, ruled, struggled by the capitalist dream (like now) but as always we fight back. Leo Tolstoy has provided …
DVD Review – Boxing Day(2012) Read More
Xavier Gens knows how to deliver the visceral terrifying experience, Frontier(s) was one of the most harrowing brutal journeys you’ll experience and one of the many reasons why New Wave …
Review – The Divide (2011) Read More
AIDS/HIV Virus has been with us for decades, once regarded as the Black man’s disease before becoming the gay man’s disease in the 1980’s. In Dallas Buyers Club (2013) the …
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Attempting to adapt literature classics into films is sometimes like treading on eggshells. You have two routes, the safe route a straight forward word by word adaptation or you could …
Film Review – Trishna (2011) Read More
2011 was the year of William Shakespeare, England’s greatest bard making his name felt in cinema. From the absurd Julie Taymor The Tempest to the Romeo & Juliet inspired animation …
Film Review – Coriolanus (2011) Read More
when you create a film or a story there should always be a start, middle and the end. In Victor Hugo’s masterpiece Les Miserables a revolutionary love story provides that substance …
Film Review – Les Miserables (2013) Read More
There was never just one’, a great tagline and a good way to guide us into the world of Aaron Cross Treadstone’s latest guinea pig and the ‘other one’ in …
Blu-ray Review – The Bourne Legacy(2013) Read More
British cinema seems to have a dangerous love affair with the unpretentious high rise flat or sometimes known as the tower block. From Attack The Block, Dredd (a British creation), even …
DVD Review – Tower Block (2012) Read More