Safe Haven Review
Nicholas Sparks adaptations seem to be becoming a genre all of their own, Spark is even credited as producer here, and there is little in Safe Haven that will most likely be of interest to those not already head of heels in love with his particular brand of romantic melodrama. Fans of his now tried … Read more
Oscar Predictions and the Winners as They’re Announced
I’ve never particularly liked the Oscars and I rarely care too much who wins but I’ve always found them oddly compelling. As someone who reads a lot of film sites, magazines and listens to a lot of film podcasts the Oscars are also impossible to avoid and every year the volume of coverage seems to … Read more
Sunday Reads: 24th February 2013
Charlie Sheen Is Winning With Inside the Mind of Charles Swan II Whilst I think the way in which Karina Longworth has her cake and eats it with this piece – dismissing those that have written about Sheen whilst falling into similar traps herself – there is some really fascinating detail in this piece at … Read more
Wreck-It Ralph’s Playful Retelling of Recent American Political and Economic History
Whilst film-makers often deliberately infuse their films with messages relating to current concerns – the allegorical explorations by Romero in his zombie films immediately spring to mind – more subtle or even subconsciousness reflections of recent events often find their way into films. In the following piece I explore the way in which Wreck-It Ralph, … Read more