Category: Film
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Although comparisons to John Boulting’s 1947 adaptation of Brighton Rock are inevitable, this film still deserves to be judged in its own right as a separate and new interpretation of the classic Graham Green novel. However, this rehash of the story of young charismatic murderer Pinkie, here played by Sam Riley, and his dangerous relationship…
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I love animation films. The thought of the care and attention poured over each frame reminds me of a simpler time when just the sight of the sparkles flying over that most majestic of castles during the opening credits would get me excited. However, with the invention of modern technology and a more ‘grown-up me’,…
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How on earth did this happen? How did this get made? How can such a talented director (Clint Eastwood) and an experienced writer (Peter Morgan) come together to concoct such a baffling disaster of a film. Hereafter is terrible. I have to be blunt about it. It really is truly awful. The opening of the…
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Boxing and films are not foreign to each other. From the artistic heights of Raging Bull to the cheesy yet awesome Rocky IV, boxing seems to be a curiously cinematic sport. The Fighter is the latest addition to this sub-genre. Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) is a welterweight boxer who, though talented, has never reached the…
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When watching Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky’s new psychological thriller, there comes a point when you reach a cerebral fork in the road. One path stretching on ahead is labelled ‘Absolute bollocks’. The other is labelled ‘Absolute genius’. No, this isn’t an advert for a new variety of vodka – I’m trying to illustrate how, though…
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Vince Vaughn and Kevin James star in Ron Howard’s latest comedy
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The EDGE takes a look at Clooney’s latest filmic episode
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2010 brought many wonderful cinematic happenings to our screens. In between brilliant tales of love, lust and friendship in the form of The Social Network, and 500 Days of Summer, and the Scott Pilgrim finally getting the girl in a fight against evil of epic proportions, it is hard to pick even a few highlights from 2010. With…
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It’s often underestimated that film, as well as being primarily a visual art, is incredibly concerned with the verbal. Cinema has provided us with some memorable rhetoric; Rutger Hauer’s dying speech to Harrison Ford in Blade Runner, Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator, and Daniel Day-Lewis’ demonic drawl in There Will Be Blood. We hang…
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After the close to awful second instalment, we finally get a conclusion to the strange and often tedious tale of computer-hacker Lisbeth Salander. The first film, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, was in my view a modern masterpiece; a gripping, beautifully constructed thriller that would, in a perfect world, receive an Oscar nomination for…
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If you want pure fantastical delight then you could do a lot worse than this latest trip to Narnia, though this time it isn’t the House of Mouse leading the way. Disney dropped the franchise, claiming the box office receipts for Prince Caspian were not high enough to tempt them back into the wardrobe once…
