From the great heights of ‘Halloween’ all the way down to the dirge of ‘Ghosts of Mars’, it’s about time John Carpenter made his come back. But perhaps that’s too much to ask from a man who remade ‘Village of the Damned’…
Rosa Downing looks at whether Darren Aronosky’s latest foray into mainstream cinema is something to make a song and dance about.
With a trip to the cinema costing upwards of a fiver these days, is the experience of sitting in a dark room with noisy, chatty, mobile-phone-using strangers still worth it? Sean Greenhorn investigates.
Emma Ainley-Walker takes her pick of French cinema’s rich, and often unsual, history.
Mateusz Zatonski takes us through the history of Russian Cinema, from Eisentein’s hugely influential Battleship Potemkin, through Tarkovsky, up to Bekmambetov, Sokurov and the Russian New Wave.
Max Horberry explores contemporary Spanish Cinema, and interviews leading Spanish film-buff Lluís Bonet on his opinion of the film industry in Spain.
Fresh from setting the box office alight with 2009’s The Hangover and before next year’s inevitable sequel, writer/director Todd Philips once again teams up with funnyman Zach Galifianakis to bring us this odd-couple-on-the-road tale of fatherhood, patriarchal loss and masturbating canines.
Maxwell Ward To say that Jim Carrey’s films are defined by the elasticity of his face is a little much, but it can give a big, gurning clue about what they hope to achieve. That’s why I Love You Phillip Morris is an anomaly in his portfolio, a film which has familiar rubbery expressions, but [...]
Emily McQueen-Govan In recent years, Tim Burton’s output of films has been both offbeat and refreshingly non-conformist. Films such as the supernatural comedy horror of Corpse Bride and his adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory cemented his reputation as a director who wasn’t afraid to go a bit crazy. Anybody would think, [...]
Tom Bonnick As of March 8, awards season may have been over, but for all of you haters who thought that would mean idly speculative newspaper commentary also being done with for the year — ha! Think again. For what would any “significant” cultural event be without its post-game analysis, I ask you? Possibly all [...]
