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 […]
Tag Archives: hollywood films
Blackhat: No Longer in Control | Michael Mann, Alpha of Action Cinema
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 […]
Remembering excellent films of 2014
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 […]
WTF Reviews #1 Fast 6 | Haters will hate
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 […]
World War Z
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 […]
Elusive movie endings | the answer lies in never (quite) knowing
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 […]
Time to call it a day…
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 […]
Iron Man 3 | Red is the new Black
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 […]
Ugh… generic big studio property
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 […]
Ruby Sparks | Ambitious diatribe on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl
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 […]
Zero Dark Thirty
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 […]
Silver Linings Playbook
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 […]
Life of Pi
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
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 […]
Flight (2012)
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 […]
Seven Psychopaths
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 […]
Killing Them Softly
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, […]
Looper
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 […]
