There are very few films I can watch again and again. Se7en is one of them. Zodiac is another. I love … More
Tag: Cinema
The Silence (2010)
This excellent police procedural thriller from Germany assembles a group of fully fleshed-out and highly interesting characters, and drops them into … More
Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
Somehow, for me, Jacob’s Ladder has always gone hand-in-hand with Angel Heart (1987). Maybe director Adrian Lyne and writer Bruce Joel Rubin were … More
Django Unchained (2012)
Is there any limit to the fun you can have watching a movie! Quentin Tarantino keeps banging out hit after … More
After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
We have already reviewed my all-time favourite noir, The Grifters (1990), the film adaptation of Jim Thompson’s 1963 novel. Thompson’s … More
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
This is an extraordinary film based on the extraordinary memoir of Jean-Dominique Bauby, well-known in France as a journalist, author, and … More
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
Michael Cera – from Juno (2007) fame – leads the cast in this fabulously fun and sweet movie about rock … More
Behind the Candelabra (2013)
If a director can take a subject which I could not care less about and enthral me for two hours, … More
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Following the incredibly sad loss of Philip Seymour Hoffman, I present this review of this amazing film so that you … More
Cold Fish (2010)
I like to watch films without knowing anything about the plot beforehand. This means I get to fully enjoy every … More
Enter the Void (2009)
Argentine film director/screenwriter Gaspar Noé is the man who has brought us I Stand Alone (1998), Irréversible (2002) and Enter the Void … More
Rush (2013)
2013 was a bumper year for well-made films. One of the best of these is Rush, a biopic which documents … More
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