It’s clear that Reitman is gunning for some sort of grand pervasive message about the status of human communication and feeling but ultimately he gives himself no room to clearly express it, says Ben Robins.
For the second instalment of the featurette, Ben Robins looks at Mean Girls and how the innocence of Christmas and youth are both tarnished by a rising culture of self-objectification.
Well and truly sunk by a clearly muddled style, and then raised exponentially by a world-beating lead performance, Get On Up stands as one of the most divided films of the year, says Ben Robins.
Ben Robins had the chance to catch up Brad about his career to date and his role in the exciting new “urban action” film Montana.
“Sadly, this drags the entire picture into near-incomprehensible territory, a great shame for leads Daniel Radcliffe and Juno Temple who both provide well-rounded performances with great emotional depth” Ben Robins looks at one of the most highly anticipated films of the year, Horns.
“Very much a love-letter to both the sports dramas and coming-of-age comedies of the 1980s, Tully’s Ping Pong Summer stands as a joyous slice of summer fun” Ben looks at Ping Pong Summer, directed by Michael Tully.
“Instead of embracing his and the film’s national identity further, first-time filmmaker Zee Ntuli has made just another vapid Hollywood clone.” In more of our London Film Festival coverage, Ben Robins takes a look at Hard to Get.
” Although true to his source material and glazed with his own unique brand of contentious comedy, Stewart’s debut is a largely mismatched attempt at something really quite different.” Ben Robbins looks at John Stewart’s first feature film.
“Regardless of his arguably over-eager approach, Daniel Barber’s The Keeping Room is an incredibly well-crafted update of the classic American western” – Our London Film Festival critic takes a look at The Keeping Room, staring Sam Worthington, Hailee Steinfeld and Brit Marling.
“Despite creating something that stands as both entertaining and deeply affecting, Ayer has sacrificed the stability of his film in favour of a more disconcerting grittiness that leaves a profoundly bad taste in the mouth” – Ben Robins looks at Brad Pitt’s latest star turn in Fury.
Ben Robins looks at the entries for Best Comedy in Southampton International Film Festival.
“To call Whiplash a tense film may well prove to be the understatement of the century” says Ben Robbins.
Perry’s delightfully dry humour powers the narration on a self-aware tone that’s as filled with winks as it is laughs, creating something both fun and consistently intelligent, says Ben Robins.
The influence that Spanish speaking nations have had on the horror genre in the past twenty years cannot be exaggerated. From the early films of a young now world-beating Guillermo Del Toro, to Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza’s break-out found-footage hit [Rec] and its many sequels, the language has clearly taken over original horror across the…