I’m not going to call The Darjeeling Limited a return to form for Wes Anderson because ‘The Life Aquatic’ was a hugely entertaining movie. The general consensus seems to be that his previous shark-chasing Bill Murray starrer was a bit overblown and superficial, the classic ‘third album’ if you will (although his forth film). For [...]

Mike Judge’s latest live action film after the classic ‘Office Space’ is a great, light-weight, but often hilarious, stoner sci-fi comedy. It’s straight to DVD (out today!) in the UK and only had a contractually obliged mini-theatrical run in the US in late 2006. The idea of a massively dumbed down future society with stores [...]

Reality versus delusion, a recurrent Philip K Dick theme and something we all consider after a few too many shrooms. Think about it all too much and you can end up feeling like you’re gasping for air on the Mars surface (see above). Total Recall is a great guilty pleasure pre-cgi action movie and also [...]

It’s the 1990’s. Imagine you’re 43, you’re a handsome man, the toast of Paris and oh yeah, the editor of Elle. Pretty sweet right? And right now you’re driving a sports car. That’s so cool I can’t even picture it. Then you feel a bit wrong, pull over and your entire body freezes up and [...]

It’s been ten years or more since Harmony Korine blew a hole in the indie scene with the unbelievably cool ‘Gummo’. He hasn’t directed since the crazy ‘Julien Donkey Boy’ in 1999. What’s he been doing? Drugs mainly. He lost the interest in films and everything (apart from some pop videos and filming his buddy [...]

In my opinion you can’t beat dogs in movies. They’re always funny and they rarely overact. Tackling some dog action in the upcoming satire ‘Year of the Dog’ is Mike White; a great writer of acerbic one-liners as seen in ‘Chuck and Buck’, ‘The Good Girl’ and ‘School of Rock’. Here he directs his first [...]