Oblique September 11 references
If one was to review the below list chronologically, one would find it charts the evolution of American filmmakers’ willingness to allude to 9/11 in the days and years after the tragedy —...
View ArticleCriminal Heroes
They break the law, lie, cheat and steal. What else but the movies could make the bad guys the heroes? They’re mostly at home in comedies or films with comic elements, because while we know there are...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence – a Top Ten LIst
It’s human nature — since time immemorial we’ve attributed human characteristics to everything around us. From the Freudian (so we don’t feel so alone in the universe) to the commercial (Pixar’s box...
View ArticleThe Strangers
It doesn’t look like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but this smoothly shot film has similar B roots as a young couple with a relationship crisis endure a brutal home invasion at their remote holiday...
View ArticleThe Strangers
It doesn’t look like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but this smoothly shot film has similar B roots as a young couple with a relationship crisis endure a brutal home invasion at their remote holiday...
View ArticleMovies about Africa — a Top Ten List
It’s been called everything from the savage continent to the New World. Spread over 30 million square kilometres, it has virtually every landscape and climate, life form and geopolitical society known...
View ArticleAmerican Swing
Taking strong tonal cues from the 2005 documentary Inside Deep Throat, American Swing captures the mood of America when the sexual revolution pendulum had swung a little too far and the inevitable...
View ArticleCrips and Bloods Made in America
Every city has a side it doesn’t show the world, and this riveting documentary explains why that of Los Angeles is more dangerous, explosive and racially charged than most. Most know the Crips and...
View ArticleSlacker Uprising
It’s been so rare for Michael Moore to fail you’re almost surprised when, at the end of this film, you’re reminded that his bid to encourage young voters to back John Kerry in the 2004 US Presidential...
View ArticleAway We Go
In-love Gen Xers Burt (Krasinski) and Verona (Rudolph) fall pregnant and embark on a cross-continent odyssey to find the right spiritual home to bring up their baby, meeting the best and worst possible...
View ArticleTop Ten Reasons 1984 Changed Cinema
1. The Amblin Effect There’d been a renaissance in moviemaking seven years earlier when – let’s be honest – George Lucas was more interested in aliens and spaceships than dialogue and acting. Movies...
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