Film
Film: The Round-UpSaturday, 11 June 2011The Holocaust comes to Paris in the summer of 1942. Directed by Rose Bosch, starring Jean Reno and Melanie Laurent. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXvQXQS3ahE Read more... |
DVD: Kiss Me DeadlyFriday, 10 June 2011
AI Bezzerides, who scripted Kiss Me Deadly (1955) for director Robert Aldrich, thought Mickey Spillane’s pulp novel was trash. Spillane, offended that Bezzerides changed so much, couldn’t understand why the film became a cult favorite in France; one... Read more... |
KaboomFriday, 10 June 2011
The playfully titled, deliriously deadpan Kaboom doesn’t so much explode onto the screen as briefly sparkle then fail to ignite. Superficially it’s an intriguing confusion of murder mystery, Generation Sex romp and slacker comedy, and is... Read more... |
Point BlankThursday, 09 June 2011
You could reduce the theme of Fred Cavayé's Point Blank to "man races to save kidnapped wife", but that wouldn't give you the full flavour of the movie's remorseless pace or devilishly wrought internal mechanism, or the quality of its performances.... Read more... |
Kung Fu Panda 2Tuesday, 07 June 2011
The appeal of fat, foolish, good-hearted panda Po (Jack Black) as a cartoon action hero is predictably diluted in this sequel. A fully trained and socially accepted martial arts master by the original’s end, he offers Kung Fu Panda 2 less pathos and... Read more... |
Interview: Film Director Ron PeckTuesday, 07 June 2011
The identity of British independent film, and its future directions, has always been a matter of some contention – and with the ongoing transfer of authority on funding issues from the now-defunct UK Film Council to the British Film Institute, it’s... Read more... |
DVD: True GritMonday, 06 June 2011
As shoes to fill go, John Wayne’s dusty cowboy boots are about as big as it gets. So when the Coen brothers decided to take their shot at True Grit – the Charles Portis novel that finally won Wayne his Oscar – the world sat back with folded arms to... Read more... |
Film: Gulliver's TravelsMonday, 06 June 2011Jack Black's contemporary slacker finds himself in Lilliput. No sign of Brobdingnag in this here trailer: http://bit.ly/cW17G3 Read more... |
Film: Vidal Sassoon the MovieMonday, 06 June 2011Hair doc Read more... |
Film: The Shop Around the CornerMonday, 06 June 2011BFI re-release Read more... |
Film: A Screaming ManMonday, 06 June 2011Father-son drama set in wartorn Chad. Trailer: http://bit.ly/i84KSb Read more... |
Film: The Hole (3D)Monday, 06 June 2011Mom: 'How do the two of you feel about having the house to yourselves?' Kid: 'Bad.' Junior haunted horror flick from Joe 'Gremlins' Dante. Trailer: http://bit.ly/cmcCbe Read more... |
