US remake not as good as original shocker. I remember very clearly the first time I watched Chan-wook Park’s Old Boy (2003). After hearing a lot of press coverage from it I decided to order the ...
British sci-fi film “The Machine” treads the well explored film territory of a not so distant future in a war torn world and how one side will try to win over the other, in the case of thi...
In the West, we are all guilty of one thing. It may be that you don’t even know you’re guilty of it, but you are. We are all guilty of the persecution, or at least allowing the persecution...
In his film Epidemic, Lars von Trier (portraying himself) comments that “a film ought to be like a pebble in your shoe.” This has always been my philosophy, as well, both as a film-viewer and a film-m...
Brian De Palma’s satirical musical Phantom of the Paradise is a loose adaptation of the baroque classic, Phantom of the Opera. Unlike many of his other, let’s say more serious masterpieces, such as Sc...
