Remember the French guy Etienne from Danny Boyle’s ‘The Beach’? No? Nor me, but he (Guillaume Canet) has just made his second film and it’s called ‘Tell No One’, or ‘Ne le Dis a Personne’ if you’re feeling Gallic. Originally a novel by Harlan Coben set in and around New York State, Canet has skilfully [...]

I was going to see ‘Sunshine’ last night, but fate intervened and I ended up seeing (from what I understand) a film that could not be much more different, ‘The Lives Of Others’, and I have to say that I’m pleased that things turned out as they did.
Set amidst the backdrop of the German Democratic [...]

I’ve been a little disappointed by the releases at the box office of late. Aside from maybe two or three films, there’s been very little that I’ve wanted to see, so the new David Lynch film ‘Inland Empire’ easily made it onto my radar. In general I like Lynch’s films, even though I don’t know [...]

I’ve always been slightly scared of old women. There. I’ve said it. This fear probably stems from being aggressively verbally abused on a regular basis by the mad old bag that lived on the street where I grew up. She used to sit on the corner shouting at all passers by like Satan’s right hand [...]

I first saw The Consequences Of Love (Le Conseguenze Dell’Amore) about a year and a half ago, and having just watched this quiet masterpiece again on DVD I felt compelled to put finger to keyboard. The film’s plot centres around Titta Di Girolamo (Toni Servillo), an ageing mafia middleman who lives a solitary life in [...]

"My name is Chev Chelios, and today is the day I die"
Now this gem is out on DVD I thought it got the fair hearing it deserves. It’s a bit hard to know where to start with ‘Crank’ as I’m not sure I’ve ever really seen a film quite like it, but the formula seems [...]

Aside from ‘The Last King of Scotland’ the only other Kevin Macdonald film I’ve seen is ‘Touching The Void’, an entertaining, and at times hilarious, film about a pretty horrific subject, namely a climbing disaster and the life and death consequences of it. In many ways ‘The Last King Of Scotland’ is similar. The bloody [...]