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Review: Dog Eat Dog – “A mad film for a mad world”

Posted by on Nov 15, 2016 in action, All, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Paul Schrader’s auteurist obsession with decadence and bruised masculinity reaches its most elaborate with Dog Eat Dog, a film brazenly...

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Review: Inferno – “All a bit of an unpleasant mess”

Posted by on Oct 14, 2016 in action, All, Books, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

The Robert Langdon series (is that what we’re calling this?) has perpetually appropriated the James Bond formula – picturesque...

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Review: Blood Father – “Mel Gibson has resurrected himself on screen”

Posted by on Oct 3, 2016 in action, All, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Mel Gibson has become an easy target and a gold mine for the salacious-seeking press. Almost anything he says, however uncontroversial –...

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Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – “A wonderful fairy tale experience”

Posted by on Sep 30, 2016 in action, All, Books, fantasy, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

It’s difficult to think of a more suitable Hollywood auteur for such literary adaptation as this. Surely when author Ransom Rigg’s was...

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Review: Sausage Party – “Far more inventive and intelligent than you may have assumed”

Posted by on Sep 1, 2016 in All, animated, comedy, Film, Headline, Reviews | 1 comment

Back in the early 60’s, Alfred Hitchcock had the balls to show a toilet for the first time on film. He even flushed it. Back then censors...

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Review – Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Posted by on Aug 5, 2016 in All, documentary, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

How far is too far? What limits should there be, if any, when it comes to art and self-expression? These are just some of the questions...

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Review: Crazy About Tiffany’s

Posted by on Aug 5, 2016 in All, documentary, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

“Don’t you just love it!?” enthuses Audrey Hepburn as she flounces through the titular store of Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961). You...

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Review: The Legend of Tarzan

Posted by on Jul 15, 2016 in action, All, Books, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

The Tarzan concept as we all know it – the aristocratic offspring of a British Lord adopted and raised by apes to become a superhuman...

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Review: Heart of a Dog

Posted by on Jun 10, 2016 in All, documentary, Film, Reviews | 0 comments

On the occasions that this writer struggles to sleep, amongst an advisory collection of music is Lou Reed’s ambient album Hudson River...

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Review: Kill Command – “Predator meets The Terminator”

Posted by on May 13, 2016 in action, All, Film, Headline, Reviews, sci-fi, thriller | 1 comment

If you ever wanted to see the plot of two Arnie classics collide like two giant biceps, then lo and behold Kill Command. Predator meets...

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