There is a point in Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut when soldier-assassin, Capt. Willard emerges from Col. Kurtz’s compound, shrouded in black, hair like an oil slick, eyes blazing with Nietzschean...
What better movie is there than Kent Jones’s Hitchcock/Truffaut documentary to prematurely break my sabbatical from film criticism? Truffaut’s 1962 in depth interviews with Hitchcock took over...
Have you ever imagined just how powerful your name is? Both with and without it you are everything and nothing. It can mask and reveal as much about your parents as it can about your own soul....
We know the images--the screams, that desperate radio chatter on September 11th 2001, those blazing towers might well have been upended battleships from Pearl Harbour. It was a call to war that...
The grin on Eric Packer’s limo is 50,000miles wide. And why wouldn’t it be? His limo is bullet proof, bomb proof and future proof. He’s a billionaire investor rocking the fly honey heiress and...
The Devil's Double is a new film, a fictionalised version of the real-life story of Latif Yahia, who served as the double of Saddam Hussein's son Uday. Unlike Jona Lewie you will never find Uday...
James Marsh is a humble low-key guy who often explores over-the-top boisterous characters. He’s also equal parts affable and driven, and a filmmaker whose work I’ve been raving about ever since...