Okay so quick confession – sadly my life has been too full of late to allow me to see ALL the Academy Award nominated films. I have not managed to see There Will Be Blood, which is a shame because it looks to be one of the better offerings this year. However, I will proceed [...]
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Oscar Night
Posted in Review Thread on February 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Review: Atonement – The Novel
Posted in Review Thread on February 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
With so much hype around the film, including its seven Oscar nominations, fourteen BAFTA nominations, and Best Film win at the Golden Globes, I thought it might be interesting to return to the original book from which this movie comes. It has been on my reading list for absolutely ages, but studying English Literature at [...]
Review: Dan In Real Life
Posted in Review Thread on January 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Interesting and amusing, this film is an empathetic, laugh-out-loud character study, starring Steve Carell as the eponymous Dan, a newspaper columnist and widower, whose life revolves around his three teenage daughters. Arriving at the annual family reunion, he randomly meets a woman in a bookshop, played by Juliette Binoche, who he consequently cannot stop thinking [...]
Review: I Am Legend
Posted in Review Thread on January 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In a market saturated with entirely action-based films, it is occasionally pleasant to come across a film that attempts to go deeper. For I Am Legend, its main strength lies not in its sudden scares but rather in its psychological delving into the mind of a man completely alone, in a city heaving with virally [...]
Review – 30 Days of Annoying Screaming Vampires Who Are Not Hot
Posted in Review Thread on November 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What is wrong with 30 Days of Night? Could it be that it is all too symptomatic of the contemporary approach to horror, which requires fake blood to be thrown everywhere? Could it be that it has a nonsensical timeline that skips forward suddenly without cohesion or justification? Perhaps it’s the lack of almost any [...]
