Review: The Honey Killer
The Honey Killer at London Independent Film Festival Dontcha just hate well-heeled City boys? Those untouchable masters of the universe. They’re still cock of the wall despite losing your money,...
Category: Film and movies
Monkey Talk: An Interview with “Project Nim” Director James Marsh
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...
Review: Suckerpunch
Dabbling in different genres is much the same as experimenting with a wild cocktail of hard drugs; it may have some electric highs but the comedown isn’t going to be pretty. After unleashing Sucker...
A Conversation with Oscar-nominated “Gasland” Director Josh Fox
I tend to prefer reviewing documentary features to fiction, not because of any affinity for reality over fantasy, but because a bad doc just tends to be less painful to sit through than a mediocre...
Into Eternity: An Interview with Michael Madsen
I first encountered Michael Madsen’s “Into Eternity” at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam this past November. What struck me most about the film – a visually and...
Black Swan is en-pointe
Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan is a Class-A attack on the senses. Take the opening: a dazzling camera that bobs and weaves, throws a flurry of punches to the body before darting out and sticking...
“The American” at the 2010 London Film Festival
Rudely awakened from his Swedish love nest, cold-blooded American Jack executes three people. The striking landscape he inhabits is too exposed, too clear from the clutter of civilisation to...
London Film Festival 2010: “Never Let Me Go” shines
Welcome to Hailsham boarding school. Beautifully secluded in the English countryside, Hailsham embodies all that is best in traditional British values: fair play, justice and a stiff upper lip....
London Film Festival 2010: “Fire in Babylon” is gorgeous
Viv Richards, the peerless genius of West Indian batsmen, fixes the camera with his steely glare. The very same one he used when joining combat with the best bowlers in the world before hammering...
“Wall Street 2″ – not quite an awakening
Gordon Gekko has been lying low. Biding his time in sing-sing away from the dollars and the greed and the sub-prime madness; he’s been plotting his come back with a Machiavellian precision as...