Films Not Freebies
If you followed me on Twitter during the 2012 London Film Festival launch you may have seen me complaining/ranting about the obsession with pastries that some film critics appeared to have. It is perhaps a silly and rather insubstantial thing to get annoyed by but it really stuck in my craw because it felt to me that … Read more
Rodney Ascher and Tim Kirk Interview for Room 237
Why The Shining? Obviously Kubrick had an obsessive attention to detail, is that the main thing? Rodney Ascher There’s a couple of things. It started with The Shining, it started when Tim sent me an online analysis that was super deep about The Shining. Mind blowing ideas about Zodiac and government conspiracies and Kubrick’s personal … Read more
Celeste and Jesse Forever Review
Recognisable leads plucked from successful U.S. Television series? Check. Female lead who spends the majority of the film suffering humiliation all in order to ‘grow’? Check. Female lead acting in an entirely clueless way about things that she would almost certainly easily comprehend? Check. Gay best friend who appears to have no life beyond the female lead? Check. Marriage scene … Read more
Sunday Reads: 11th November 2012
Mickey Mouse – Jedi knight? I never thought I’d say this, but bring it on David Mitchell weighs in on the recent purchase of Lucasfilm by Disney. The last of Louise Glenn Kenny on Louise Brook’s final film. Spooktacular Halloween Case File #27: Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 Nathan Rabin tackles the much maligned sequel to The Blair … Read more