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The Skin I Live In Review
If Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was written in 2011, I suspect it could have come out something like this. If you buy into Almodóvar’s premise then you will undoubtedly like this truly unsettling film.
The Tree of Life Review
The Tree of Life is a beautiful looking film with ambitious scope, lofty aspirations and some brilliant visuals. Although a film I ultimately admire, it was not one I would say I enjoyed.
New look website
Those of you who look at this site (semi-)regularly, and Google Analytics tells me against all instinct that you do actually exist in small numbers, should bare with me. In an attempt to satisfy my control freakery I have moved from a custom URL Blogger setup to a self-hosted WordPress setup instead. There may be [...]
Real war preferable to ’5 Days Of War’
I have no doubt a superb film could be, maybe even has been, made about the 2008 South Ossetia conflict. 5 Days Of War, complete with implied Russian puppy mistreatment, is not that film.
The Guard: Buddy cop meets The Dude
Ireland, in particular Galway, strikes me as an unusual setting for a crime plot based on international drug smuggling to take place, but it works – in the same way Hot Fuzz worked, but with more laughs and self-awareness and less over-the-top parody homage.
The Problem With Potter
I often get quite annoyed when folk break out lines about books being ‘superior’ to film adaptations. Rightly so, in my opinion, as the film is a separate piece of work. Allowances must me made for it fitting into a roughly two hour story arc, I say. It is based upon the original literature, not a simple rehash and nor should it be, I declare. Some films are better than the source book as a result. I’m not entirely sure, however, after watching Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, that has been to the benefit of the the Harry Potter series.
