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REVIEW – The Congress (2013)
Videovista has my review of Ari Folman’s second feature film The Congress. Set in the immediate future, the film revolves around a fictionalised version of the actress Robin Wright who decides to sell...
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Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) – A Counter-Productive Relationship...
Transformers: Age of Extinction is something of a paradox. Compared to Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and the original Transformers, the film is better acted,...
View ArticleREVIEW – Rollerball (1975)
FilmJuice have my review of Norman Jewison’s iconic 1970s science fiction film Rollerball, which has just been re-released on Blu-ray. When my editor at FilmJuice approached me to write about...
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The Organization Geek
I sometimes think that my generation got the wrong end of the stick when it came to the question of conformity. My first encounter with conformity as a theoretical concept came in my early teens when...
View ArticleREVIEW — The Captive Heart (1946)
Earlier this week, I wondered what a fully mature and authentic British film industry might actually look like. For inspiration, I looked to the British cinema of the 1940s and found both good and...
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Anno Dominus
October 1995 saw the appearance of what may yet turn out to be the defining work of 21st Century science fiction. Written and directed by Hideaki Anno 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン is an animated TV series that ran for...
View ArticleREVIEW — Couple in a Hole (2015)
*taps mic* Is this thing still on? Good. FilmJuice have my review of Tom Geens’ excellent Couple in a Hole, a Anglo-French drama that set amidst the mountains and forests of South-Western France. While...
View ArticleREVIEW — Solaris (1972)
The fashion these days is to treat creative collaboration in the way that medieval dynasties treated royal marriage: Take one thing you like, add another thing you like, and what you are supposed to...
View ArticleREVIEW – Stalker (1979)
Frequent visitors to this site will know that I value Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker above all other films. The reasons for this are really two-fold: Firstly, I think that Tarkovsky’s films set the bar for...
View ArticleREVIEW – Nostalgia (1983)
My Tarkovskyian odyssey continues… FilmJuice have my review of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia, the film he made in Italy prior to his self-imposed exile from the Soviet Union. Nostalgia is a film that...
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