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Freakonomics DVD Review
2009
Directors: Alex Gibney, Morgan Spurlock, Seth Gordon, Eugene Jarecki, Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing
Based on the book by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Ever since Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine proved that documentaries could not only be provocative and entertaining but bring in the Box Office bucks, we’ve enjoyed a torrent of similar efforts to make “factual” … read more
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment DVD Review
1966
Director: Karel Reisz
Script: David Mercer
Cast: David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens, Irene Handl, Bernard Bresslaw
This movie adaptation of David Mercer’s televised play, for which Vanessa Redgrave received a Best Actress Award at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, is a cult classic that appears to have been overlooked while all manner of dreck made the transition to … read more
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Tagged 60s Cinema, British Cinema, cult classics, films / movies
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Carlos: The Trilogy DVD Review
2010
Director: Olivier Assayas
Script: Dan Franck, Olivier Assayas
Cast: Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Nora von Waldstätten, Ahmad Kaabour, Christoph Bach, Susanne Wuest, Anna Thalbach, Julia Hummer
Sidestepping the controversy that Aaron Sorkin’s Social Network script recently attracted, Carlos begins with a disclaimer informing us that it’s purely a work of fiction based on real events. Surely, the very nature … read more
ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction DVD Review
Released 18th October 2010 by Optimum Home Entertainment
Director: Kevin Hamedani
Cast: Janette Armand, Doug Fahl and Cooper Hopkins
Script: Kevin Hamedani, Ramon Isao
It’s probably best not to settle down to a film titled Zombies of Mass Destruction expecting Citizen Kane. Or even George A. Romero, for that matter. But this admirably earnest little horror movie, not to … read more
The Brothers Bloom DVD Review
2009, Optimum Home Entertainment
Director: Rian Johnson
Cast: Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz, Robbie Coltrane, Rinko Kikuchi
Script: Rian Johnson
You have to admire writer/director Rian Johnson’s propensity for overreaching. His first movie, Brick, was a high school murder mystery which channelled the noir sensibilities of Hammett and Chandler, and even if its askew wit resulted in something … read more
Mother (2009) DVD Review
2009
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Script: Bong Joon-ho, Park Eun-kyo
Cast: Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin, Jin Goo
Hell hath no fury like a mother scorned in this peculiar South Korean film from Bong Joon-ho, the director of The Host. While this quiet tale of a woman intent on proving her son’s innocence after he’s convicted of murdering a teenage girl … read more
The Disappearance of Alice Creed Film Review
2009
Director, Writer: J Blakeson
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston, Eddie Marsan
Like criminals Vic and Danny upon the unsuspecting Alice, The Disappearance of Alice Creed creeps up on its unsuspecting audience. Director J Blakeson’s low budget debut opens with two nondescript males (Eddie Marsan and Martin Compston) silently shopping for tools, lining the inside of an equally nondescript white … read more
Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge DVD Review
2008, Optimum Home Entertainment
Director: Jérôme Salle
Writer: Julien Rappeneau
Cast: Tomer Sisley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélanie Thierry, Bojana Panic, Karel Roden, Miki Manojlovic, Benedict Wong
With western economies still struggling to recover from one of the fiercest recessions in the last hundred years, Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge, the movie adaptation of the popular billionaire businessman, couldn’t have come … read more
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Tagged comic book movies, films / movies, Franco-Belgian comics, graphic novels
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Dogtooth Film Review
2009
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Writers: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou
Cast: Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Christos Passalis, Anna Kalaitzidou
Everything unknown is taken for magnificent, in this surreal and downright warped Greek movie that immediately evokes Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke, but is no less distinctive. Bar one home dentistry scene near the end there’s very … read more
Iron Man 2 Movie Review
2010
Director: Jon Favreau
Script: Justin Theroux
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Mickey Rourke, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson
The finer superhero movie franchises have so far followed a pretty rigid formula. The first instalment acts as an origin story, the superior sequel throws a greater and/or more personal threat upon our established here, and … read more
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Tagged comic book movies, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, superhero movies, Thor
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