Well Ladies and Gentlemen, the Oscars have come and gone for another year and once again they have taken me on an emotional roller-coaster of anticipation and inevitable disappointment and profound confusion. I did say before that I was going to write-up the review of Oscar-nominated Lincoln before yesterday’s ceremony but I got too lazy … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2013
The Sessions
Based on a true story The Sessions stars John Hawkes as Mark O’Brien, a poet who’s paralyzed and lives in an iron lung due to childhood polio. O’Brien in his thirties hires a sex surrogate (Helen Hunt) to take his virginity. This is going to be a relatively quick review, at least compared to my previous output … Continue reading
Zero Dark Thirty
As I had promised in what seems an age ago, here is my review of Zero Dark Thirty, a film that caused various emotional reactions from me. When I first saw the trailer, last year, it was so ambiguous that it peaked my interest. Then when I quickly learnt that is was directed by Hurt Locker’s Kathryn … Continue reading
Here’s my attempt at a ‘I don’t care about the Oscars’ Summation (but I secretly care. I care very much)
The Oscars 2013 There’s a outward part of me that agrees with the general movie fan rhetoric that the Oscars don’t matter and at best they’re just an excuse to have an evening of drinks and ridicule and that’s all good. But there is an inner part of me that is a little reluctant to … Continue reading
THE STATION AGENT SPEAKS 