Superheroes Review
In the 2010 fiction film Kick-Ass the titular character comments, following his defense of an unarmed man being beaten up outside a diner, “…three assholes, laying into one guy while everybody else watches? And you wanna know what’s wrong with me?”. This apathetic attitude and the desire to do something tangible about it is really … Read more
Headhunters (Hodejegerne) Review
Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) is 1.68 meters tall and feels very inadequate about it. Despite working in a highly paid job, as a corporate headhunter, having a beautiful house and spending a fortune on luxury gifts for his wife, his tall wife, Diana (Synnove Macody Lund), he believes that he is not enough for her. Roger is … Read more
The Green Hornet Review
The journey that brought The Green Hornet to the big screen is long and littered with a very varied selection of actors. At various points in the project’s development The Green Hornet was set to be played by George Clooney, Greg Kinnear, Jake Gyllenhaal and Mark Whalberg and almost filling the shoes once inhabited by … Read more
Precious Life Review
To describe the area in which director Shlomi Eldar treads with his documentary Precious Life difficult would be an understatement but moving within these difficult areas, both literally and figuratively, is perhaps the only way to really get to the heart of the complex and seemingly never-ending conflict currently going on in and around the Gaza … Read more