ONE DAY is an unconventional love story told in an unconventional style. The conceit of dropping in on them once a year on St. Swithins Day (July 15) to check their rocky progression from the 1980s through to the 21st century is as arch and penetrating as it is effective in stripping the story of… Read More »
PUNCTURE
PUNCTURE is a remarkable story told in a disappointingly unremarkable way. Based on a true story, this tale of a small-time lawyers taking on Big Pharma offers no surprises about the evil that the profit motive can produce, but it does have one enormously redeeming quality that makes it worth watching. Chris Evans. As Mike… Read More »
DREDD 3D
The great irony of DREDD 3D is that the narcotic driving the criminal element of the film is called Slo-Mo and its trick is to make slow time down to one-percent of normal for the user. Ironic because DREDD, based on the comic strip by Carlos Ezquerra and John Wagner, does the same thing for… Read More »
CLOUD ATLAS
CLOUD ATLAS is an ambitious film plagued with problems that garbles its overarching themes. Some of these problems stem from its makers attempting to adapt the six novellas of the original book into a film with a running time of only(?) three hours. Others are of a more puzzling nature, troublesome and unforgivable for being something… Read More »
SPRING BREAKERS
What is most interesting about Harmony Korine’s SPRING BREAKERS is the way it turns its imagery on its head while revealing harsh truths about the hollowness of American pop culture. Though the camera revels in shots of decadent excess, it never quite reduces them to mere cheap exploitation. Instead, by the end of this anti-fairy… Read More »
BRICK MANSIONS
Its impossible to not acknowledge that BRICK MANSIONS is Paul Walkers last completed film. Its also impossible to not be wistful that this remake of DISTRICT B-13, a darn fine film, isnt a better effort. While the original, also co-written by co-producer Luc Besson had a sharper political slant that included official corruption and rampant… Read More »
THE QUIET ONES
THE QUIET ONES never really gets around to explaining its title, but it doesnt really matter. Produced by Hammer Films, that glorious British concern specializing in horror films that emphasize terror over gore, it is an elegant little flick, both creepy and atmospheric, that tells its tale of hubris and good intentions gone wrong with… Read More »
THE HARD WORD
I no longer fear death for I have seen THE HARD WORD and no pain of giving up the ghost, no torment in damnation can compare to this excruciating mess that hits the silver screen with the sickening thud of ineptitude. Writer/ director Scott Roberts seems to have wanted to make a taut thriller that is also… Read More »
ELEPHANT
There was, inevitably, going to be a feature film take on the Columbine massacre and in Gus Van Sants ELEPHANT, we have one that does not exploit the tragedy with cheap attempts to tug on our heartstrings with cliché sentiment. Instead, he offers rich and disconcerting food for thought with a terrifying vision of teen… Read More »
STANDER
There is a scene in STANDER that stands out among many such memorable ones. In it, a teller is introduced to Andre Stander (Tom Jane) the police officer who is in charge of finding the man who robbed the bank window she was minding. The thing is, Stander is also the man who made away… Read More »
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