One of the things you quickly learn as a writer is that viewers and readers never really want what they think they want. They desire what they could never have predicted. That’s why you never listen to ‘fans’ when you’re putting something together for a general audience. I love Netflix. They’re great disruptors, and...
Read more →I have a different take on this from many others. I…enjoyed certainly isn’t the right word…but I *appreciated* the film. I have to use a completely different set of standards to judge Sucker Punch because the director, Zack Snyder, eschews the traditional way of telling a cinematic story to get his point/theme/subtext across. By...
Read more →This is brilliant. Get past the talking heads at the start and see how quickly we’ve assimilated a new mythology. Thanks to Bleeding Cool.
Read more →Amazing editing.
Read more →From the director of Watchmen and 300: Looks like what The Last Airbender should have been. I’m not a big fan of stories that take place entirely in the dreamscape (unless it’s Inception!) because there never seems much at stake. But I like what Zach Snyder’s done in the past so maybe he’ll pull...
Read more →…or three horror films I really love, but which rarely get a nod in all the lists of Scary Movies circulating at this time of year. NIght of the Demon My favourite horror film, and in my list of favourite films of any genre. No other movie captures such an atmosphere of dread, from...
Read more →Movies viewed this year so far, in no particular order: Shutter Island, Inception (x2), Toy Story 3, 2012, The Wrestler, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Sherlock Holmes, Shrek Forever After, The Age of Stupid, The Reader, The Taking of Pelham 123 (new version), Duplicity, The Boat That Rocked, Zombieland, The Princess and the...
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