FIlm Review
Film Review: Into The Storm
Weather can be a dangerous thing, particularly if you live in Oklahoma where the tornadoes terrify high school students and wannabe YouTube stars alike. As long as there is a storm chasing documentary film crew around, they’ll all be safe, won’t they? If you think this plot sounds familiar, there is definitely a nod towards …
DVD Review: I am Divine
Occasionally someone comes along who is such a huge personality that they immediately dominate every film they’re in, becoming a phenomenon. Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead), actor, singer and drag queen, became a huge underground success through his collaboration with John Waters. I am Divine is his story. Jeffrey Schwarz’s documentary charts Milstead’s early life right …
Film Review: The Paddy Lincoln Gang
I’m naturally suspicious of any film which tries to sell itself off the back of having a ‘famous’ musician in it. More often than not their appearance is fleeting and cringeworthy. In The Paddy Lincoln Gang, Glen Matlock has a very brief cameo which sadly fits into the above box. However, playing on this does …
Film Review: Mood Indigo
Michel Gondry is one of the most sought-after and ‘trendy’ film directors out there, yet other than Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind he’s failed to produce a film that can be classed as great. Whilst Be Kind Rewind and The Science of Sleep have their moments he’s yet to reproduce that magic for the …
Film Review: The Fault In Our Stars
I belong to a unique group of people who have links with cancer in some way. It’s not like we want special treatment or anything, or to be recognised for this fact. It’s just life is difficult sometimes and this is our reality. You might think, then, that seeing The Fault In Our Stars is …
Film Review: Fading Gigolo
I never thought I’d see Woody Allen act again. He’s already replaced himself in his own movies with the likes of Owen Wilson and Jesse Eisenberg. What John Turturro did to lure Allen out in front of the camera again can only be imagined. Maybe it was the promise of filming in New York and …
Film Review: Godzilla
I don’t generally do monster movies. In fact I don’t generally do what the BBFC would deem ‘sustained threat and peril’. I blame watching slightly scary films on television with my Nannan, who would view them with the affect of a coiled spring. When anything happened to make you jump, she would grab the nearest …
Film Review: The Two Faces of January
Patricia Highsmith is a criminally underrated American novelist, probably best known for the film adaptations of her work. Her first book, Strangers on a Train, has been adapted several times (most famously by Alfred Hitchcock), but it’s probably The Talented Mr Ripley for which she is most renowned. It has also been adapted several times, …
Film Review: The Wind Rises
Since 1985 Studio Ghibli has been producing beautiful animated films, and thankfully over the last decade the West has begun to appreciate their magic. Co-founder and leading light Hayao Miyazaki’s is unquestionably the greatest animator of all time, producing such marvels as Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away and …
Film Screening: The Punk Singer
Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outspoken feminist icons, a cultural lightning rod. Her critics wished she would just shut-up, and her fans …