Christopher Nolan is best known for his Bat-films, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight; big, heavy, dark comic book movies that have captured the hearts and wallets of a generation of moviegoers. But once upon a time, before Christian Bale gargled gravel and donned the bat cowl, Christopher Nolan made a little film called Memento. It’s a mind-bending post-noir psychological thrillery affair, as well as a pretty...
Way back in the beginning of December, in our first week of existence, I posted a list of the five most anticipated films of the summer. Now that it is officially autumn (even if the weather obstinately refuses to accept this incontravertible truth), it’s the perfect time to look back over the past three months and put the summer releases in perspective. There were a few surprises, some hits and some misses,...
If you think Star Trek is ‘lame’ or ‘uncool’ then you are still manacled to the ball-and-chain of high-school mentality populararity contests, and should probably go back to listening to Green Day and reading Harry Potter and watching Avatar, you soulless humbug. Star Trek is a forty-year-old institution, a supporting pillar of modern pop culture, and beyond being a hideously outdated and...
Ah, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts: Britain’s answer to the Academy Awards. I don’t think I know any people who speak of the BAFTAs (or the Golden Globes, for that matter) when comparing the calibre and critical worth of films; it’s always the Oscars that everyone talks about ten years after the fact. But the Oscars are weird and unpredictable, especially when it comes to Best...
From Paris With Love reeks of squandered potential. Charlie Wax could have been an iconic, entertaining character in his own right, and John Travolta’s performance is desperately trying to push the character in the direction of success, but something about the film’s script and direction really drags the otherwise entertaining character into the inescapable realm of mediocrity. How does this happen,...
Shutter Island is a strange movie, but not in the way it intends to be: it’s strange because it’s bad. Martin Scorsese isn’t the critical and commercial king he is today because he makes movies that suck. But he’s managed the impossible here — he’s made a bad film. ”But the trailer is awesome,” you say, tears running down your trembling face in denial. Well, the...
The teaser trailer for District 9 is one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen. You know the one, where the totally weird and alien thing sits in an interview room, with its face blurred, and clicks and pops and grunts in response to some questions asked by off-screen humans. It hooked my attention and piqued my anticipation more than any other trailer I can remember, that cold, chilling image of an...
The original Wolf Man was a noble tale of tragedy, fathers and sons, and fate, intertwined with some wacky gypsy woo-woo bullshit. Something about curses, pure hearts, and gypsies really didn’t bode well for our innocent protagonist Larry Talbot, and he ended up snuffing it by taking a silver cane to the face a few too many times. What was tragic about the film was that was that a) everything Larry goes...
The disappointing but inevitable box office success of James Cameron’s lacklustre return to fantasy filmmaking has, for better or worse, solidified 3D movies as financially viable in the minds of those cold, distant studio execs whose only apparent concern is the bottom line. After the unprecedented success of Avatar in standard 3D as well as Imax 3D venues, many studios appear to be jumping on the...
As if Avatar’s Box Office haul wasn’t evidence enough, here we have another fine specimen to file under the already expansive exhibition ”Reasons People Are Shit.” But thankfully, The Road joins these ranks deliberately, in thematic content and not by cultural reception. The Road is a bold move into relatively uncharted territory for Hollywood. People seem only to want bright,...
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