Reviews in a nutshell
Alex Garland’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel, Never Let Me Go, is what film festivals and awards ceremonies were made for. Even though the film of the same name gracefully opened the 2010 BFI London Film Festival in October, delivering an example of understated, ethereal British elegance in its style and cinematography, it has …
The original Tron was silly, almost camp, with the programs’ skin-tight, luminous Spandex-styled suits and comical overreactions. But it was undeniably groundbreaking, especially in production design and imagination. It also helped to later produce an Oscar-winning actor in Jeff Bridges, who isn’t shy of playing an odd array of quirky characters, from Starman, Lebowski and …
For a film with such an emotive title that conjures up all kinds of stereotypical sci-fi imagery of Earth being taken over by extraterrestrial life forms, Monsters by documentary film-maker Gareth Edwards is quite the opposite. It’s actually a surprisingly tender relationship study between two humans that blossoms amongst nature of the Earth and alien …
No film is ever ‘perfect’, especially at the time of release, though many a film critic will have their favourites that nearly touch that impossible mark. What these films become are examples of near perfection in their own right, studied and lauded by all. The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan many well have placed his …
Can Adrien Brody pass as an action hero? Yes, he certainly can, considering the large combat boots he’s had to fill, vacated by Schwarzenegger after the original 1987 film. As no-nonsense mercenary Royce, growling his way through this episode, Brody successfully plays totally against type, acting as one major factor that hooks you in and …
In the famous words of one American icon, “I have a dream…”, Hollywood got all giddy and happily jumped aboard the James Cameron vision express with his latest epic, Avatar, even though the blockbuster film-maker of Aliens, Terminator and The Abyss has been less than influential (studio-translated, ‘mega profitable’) on the movie scene over the …
