Goya’s Ghosts (2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Not quite as bad as some critics said, and yet also a long way from great, Milos Forman turns in …
Sex
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast
What could have been a Lost in Translation for the iTunes crowd is wounded by the irritating insistence of modern …
Advise and Consent (1963) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Possibly Otto Preminger’s last great film (although Bunny Lake is Missing has admirers), and the final screen work of Charles …
Freedom and Fate in George Lucas’s THX 1138 and Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report
An edited version of an academic essay I wrote in 2009, looking at common generic concerns. George Lucas and Steven …
Bound (1996) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
As hard as I found it to forgive the Wachowski brothers for the execrable conclusion to The Matrix series after …
The Boat That Rocked (Pirate Radio, 2008) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast
In honour of this film’s subject, I recommend downloading a pirated copy of the soundtrack album, which features a cornucopia …
Sakuran (2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. A pictorially and aurally creative, occasionally intoxicating film, Sakuran could be described as a native cultural and feminist riposte …
To Live and Die in LA (1986) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. William Friedkin’s attempt to get his French Connection mojo working again in the era of Miami Vice is a …
Nothing Sacred (1937) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. .A brilliant comedic performance from Carole Lombard, and a perfectly poised one from Fredric March, anchor an occasionally hilarious …
Red Road (2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. .Surveillance operator Jackie (Kate Dickie) watches the world through the network of cameras that pepper the modern British landscape, …
