Birdman, black humour
Riggan Thomson: Sixty’s the new thirty, motherfucker! Caden Cotard: …and all those years in between. Private moments alone in the dark have a limited number of outcomes. But pre-dawn hours […]
Riggan Thomson: Sixty’s the new thirty, motherfucker! Caden Cotard: …and all those years in between. Private moments alone in the dark have a limited number of outcomes. But pre-dawn hours […]
In cyber-security lingo, Black hat refers to a hacker who breaks into a computer system or network with malicious intent. Unlike a white hat hacker, the black hat takes advantage […]
Boyhood (2014) This coming-of-age by Richard Linklater charts the growing years of fictional protagonist Mason, from the age of 5 to 18. I found the running time a tad too […]
Dominic Toretto: “You want bloody? We can do bloody.” BBC Science may have debunked the incredible Hollywood stunts and physics involved in Justin Lin’s thrilling runway scene but that didn’t […]
Max Brook’s muscular, world weary “oral history of the zombie war”, a thinly veiled geo-political mouthpiece on the world at large seen through the eyes of an agent working for the UN, has […]
One of the key incidents in Downton Abbey, is the mysterious death of Turkish diplomat Mr Pamuk. The handsome, exotic visitor seduces Lady Mary Crawley and dies shortly after — still laying in […]
At the end of Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, we agreed that 2013’s Superman is a real sight for sore eyes. But I fell out of love with the caped […]
Oh man… this is so good in an unfamiliar way. It has rekindled the spark of a teenager trapped in the shell of a cynical adult movie goer. In a […]
By now, the movie title needs no introduction. Joseph Kosinski’s follow-up to his 2010 film Tron: Legacy (which I really enjoyed); is a stunning and eargasmic feast for those who […]
Before Ruby Sparks, there was Canadian pop starlet Robin Sparkles, a fictional character in award winning comedy How I Met Your Mother. Speaking of which, here’s one of my favorite […]
Political controversies aside, Zero Dark Thirty is a thriller par excellence that grips you firmly and quietly by the neck. It is also the kind of film that demands focus […]
As Sigmund Freud said, “One is very crazy when in love.” Silver Linings Playbook delivers a little less than what its title suggests; but as a romantic comedy, it is […]
First of all; Life of Pi has very little appeal for movie goers unfamiliar with Yann Martel’s novel. They will have to glean from whatever information is available before deciding […]
Django Unchained is written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, a veteran of exploitation films whose debut feature Reservoir Dogs, depicted violent scenes punctuated with countless expletives—a politically incorrect style that […]
One of the pleasures of Robert Zemeckis’s latest film is the way he introduces Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington), a suave airline pilot who shuffles domestic flights for a living. When […]
With the release of this film; Hollywood has claimed its latest casualty in Martin McDonagh, writer and director of award winning British comedy In Bruges. Seven Psychopaths is a parody of […]
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse. In Killing Them Softly, […]
In this latest film by Rian Johnson (The Brothers Bloom, Breaking Bad); the premise is old but execution, superb. Looper is very entertaining for a time travel science-fiction thriller Now that […]