Robert Downey Jr – The Judge
Hollywood loves nothing more than a rags to riches story. Or in the case of the highest paid movie star on the planet, a riches to rags to riches story. One of the finest young actors of his generation...
View ArticleWhiplash
”Whiplash” is about jazz drums, but it could be about any art form (or sport). The central question at its heart is ‘what does it take to be one of the greats?’, and the answer contains more urgency,...
View ArticleCamp X-Ray
Say what you like about Kristen Stewart, she’s used her ”Twilight” clout as a springboard to projects that would stretch any attractive young actress when she could have sunk into the mire of every...
View ArticleVOD Views – October 22, 2014
In the very first edition of VOD Views, we talked about the minor blow-up that occurred when Steven Soderbergh’s ”Bubble” came out on the same day on DVD, VOD and in cinemas. Now the old window debate...
View ArticleBirdman
There haven’t been many parallels drawn between ”Birdman” and the work of Woody Allen, but both are ultimately about the self-absorption of the privileged with the thirst for artistic recognition (and...
View ArticleSt. Vincent
Recently Denzel Washington graced our movie screens with ”The Equalizer”, teaching us two things. One, he can do the...
View Article‘Interstellar’ Review : Brilliant!
Ask any Chris Nolan fan what they like about ”Inception”, ”Memento” and (to a lesser extent) the ”Dark Knight” trilogy and the word ‘layers’ will inevitably come up. Nolan and frequent...
View ArticleInterstellar
Ask any Chris Nolan fan what they like about ”Inception”, ”Memento” and (to a lesser extent) the ”Dark Knight” trilogy and the word ‘layers’ will inevitably come up. Nolan and frequent...
View ArticleNightcrawler
This film is actually a very insightful study into characterisation, and not in a good way. It’s proof that there’s a big difference between having an unlikable character and a character you just don’t...
View ArticleOpen Windows
”Open Windows” is unlikely to be remembered in the same company as ”Jaws”, ”Jurassic Park”, ”Pulp Fiction” and ”The Blair Witch Project”, but just like those films were the first entries into movements...
View ArticleJoe Hill – Horns
Drew Turney talks to the author of “Horns”, now a major motion picture starring Daniel Radcliffe. How involved were you with the writing of the movie, if at all? I spent about three years writing Horns...
View ArticleVOD Views – November 10, 2014
Fortunes continue to rise and fall on the new media paradigm. Ascendant and triumphant in several markets around the world, VOD giant Netflix is finding that sometimes it faces more entrenched players....
View ArticleSnowpiercer
“Snowpiercer” loses a little bit moving to the small screen – the cramped confines of the titular train are a little too confined Read more...
View ArticleWerewolf Rising
Why, this film continues to ask of such a misaligned genre, do so many werewolf movies suck so much? If a high school Read more...
View Article‘Foxcatcher’ Review : flat and inert
”Foxcatcher” has the same high prestige gloss as Bennett Miller’s ”Moneyball”. It’s a similar story that’s less about sport than some of the Read more...
View ArticleFoxcatcher
”Foxcatcher” has the same high prestige gloss as Bennett Miller’s ”Moneyball”. It’s a similar story that’s less about sport than some of the Read more...
View ArticleHorrible Bosses 2 Interview : Jennifer Aniston
Who’d have thought years ago playing the klutzy but beautiful Rachel on TV’s ”Friends” that Jennifer Aniston – America’s sweetheart if there ever Read more...
View ArticleJennifer Aniston – Horrible Bosses 2
Who’d have thought years ago playing the klutzy but beautiful Rachel on TV’s ”Friends” that Jennifer Aniston – America’s sweetheart if there ever Read more...
View ArticleMatthew McConaughey – Interstellar
It’s been called The McConaissance. Matthew McConaughey burned hot and bright after roles in ”A Time To Kill”, ”Amistad” and ”Contact”, but after Read more...
View Article‘Wild’ Review : Spectacular, Beautiful
Reese Witherspoon follows in the footsteps of many a former strictly commercial actress to do a small budget prestige film about misery and Read more...
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