Welcome to the second of a two part post belatedly discussing two of the biggest films at this years Academy Awards. Part one saw me wax lyrical about The Descendants, whilst this part is concerned with my thoughts on the movie that took the lion share of the awards, the oft
Review by walt. In post-Vietnam Hollywood, cinema audiences have come to expect war films to tell it like it is. Films such as Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now and Black Hawk Down have examined the morality of modern warfare, giving warts-and-all accounts of the violence and chaos of military conflict. Things used to be simpler.
Welcome to the first of a two part post belatedly discussing two of the biggest films at this years Academy Awards. Having finally managed to catch them at the end of their, generously extended, cinema run last week, The Descendants and The Artist, have been playing on my mind. Depending on
Review by nil. C1981 Dir. Steve Miner No matter what you thought of the recent remake of the original Friday The 13th movie, it’s also worth taking a look back at the originals, particularly Steve Miner’s 1981 sequel. Its five years after the bloodbath of the first film, and a new bunch of counsellors have arrived
It's always a risk when someone decides to name a film something like this. And I'm going to have to come out and say it now. This film did not make as much 'perfect sense' as I was hoping it would. When I put this film on I thought, two great
