The Baftas are on tonight! And I feel a little bit warmer towards them than I do the Oscars (I will explain my reasoning next week), so here’s a quick round-up of nominations. I’ve selected in Pink who MIGHT win and GREEN for who I would like to win because it’s all about me and … Continue reading
– What could possibly cause a potential aneurysm just by sitting down for two hours? The film WHIPLASH of course! Electrifyingly kinetic from performance to edit, every moment is intimately indicative of the suffocating world of obsession as Whiplash tells the story of music student (Miles Teller) and his fractious relationship with toxic mentor ( JK Simmons). In my … Continue reading
Congratulations to MELISSA LOFTMAN of Wanderlust fame. She wins a selection of Fox titles after correctly answering the following question: Who performed the score to Louis Malle’s Lift To The Scaffold? The answer was of course….Miles Davis. Congrats Melissa, your DVDs and a weekend of excellent film watching will be coming to you soon! While … Continue reading
I had planned to repeat last year’s prediction and results analysis of the Oscars. But because life just…is, I haven’t had the time to write a long-winded dissection about how ultimately pointless and yet bewitching the whole Oscars charade is. So I thought it would work if I combined the two processes and discuss the … Continue reading
World’s End While the majority of the films appearing on this list were seen in the most reserved fashion, in that I had minimal hope I would enjoy my cinematic experience, World’s End was the exception to the rule and for that I was severely punished (I’m beginning to feel like 2013 was the year I … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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