Tag: film

  • The Brothers Bloom DVD Review

    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…

  • Secret Cinema Announces “Most Ambitious Event to Date”

    Secret Cinema Announces “Most Ambitious Event to Date”

    Wow. Secret Cinema continues to grow, in the face of fears that cinema attendance will eventually succumb to cheaper DVDs and internet piracy. It’s a phenomenon that seems to have spread from word of mouth and movie mag mentions to national media attention in just over a year. I for one am not surprised. Not…

  • Dogtooth Film Review

    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…

  • The Bank Job Movie Review

    The Bank Job Movie Review

    Dir: Roger Donaldson Script: Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, George McIndoe, Aaron Shuster Cast: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner, Alki David, Michael Jibson, Richard Lintern, Don Gallagher, David Suchet When a Baker Street depository was robbed in 1971, London became engrossed in the story of the ‘walkie-talkie bank job’…