It's 1999, two years before Afghanistan will experience the violence of Western liberation, and the Taliban still exert a draconian grip on the people. Working for a private firm, two Englishmen (Shaun Dooley and Dean Andrews) are contracted to sweep the war-ravaged Afghan deserts for mines. When one of them
Writer/director Gary King has gone more experimental whilst pushing boundaries and switching genres. A musical is in the works and a zombie piece is out soon. This film, What’s Up Lovely is his latest
Tamara Drewe ***½ Comics – they’re not all about superheroes you know. Case in point, Tamara Drewe, Posy Simmonds’ weekly comic strip published in The Guardian (and also released in its entirety as a hardcover graphic novel) which, based on Thomas Hardy’s nineteenth century novel Far from the
Cyrus *** One of this year’s acquisitions from the Sundance Film Festival by Fox Searchlight Pictures, Cyrus (a film which surprisingly carries the producing credits of Ridley and Tony Scott) has failed to break out in the way that some other films picked up for distribution from the prestigious festival
...to Hell, then Space and back to Crystal Lake again...The Friday the 13th Film Series in Review I went into the history of "modern" horror and the slasher film genre, in specific, in my review of the Halloween Series, so I'll try not to rehash too much here. Essentially the modern horror