The Tale of Zatocihi Continues (Zoku Zatoichi Monogatari) Review
Released in Japan just six months after the first film, the second Zatoichi film is almost certainly one for completists only. At 72 minutes The Tale of Zatoichi continues is also rather short and contained within is very little in the way of plot or character development. Hired as a masseur to the Kuroda (or Kurata … Read more
For Love’s Sake (Ai To Makoto) Review
Seemingly back making films at a breakneck pace Takashi Miike makes it clear with For Love’s Sake (Ai To Makoto) that 13 Assassins and Harakiri, his recent period samurai remakes, were examples of him branching out further, rather than a full-blown new direction. That’s not to say that Miike is fully back to approaching the … Read more
The Sapphires Review
Based on a play of the same name, The Sapphires is a spirited but misguided Australian musical feature from director Wayne Blair and writers Tony Briggs and Keith Thomspson. Loosely based on the experiences of Briggs mother and aunt – a postscript reveals that it is very loosely based – the film tells the story … Read more
Room 237 and Film Criticism
There are two comments that film critics/academics will often hear from non-film critics/academics when discussing a theory they have relating to a specific film. These are, “I think you’re probably just reading too much into it” and “I don’t think that’s what they were actually thinking about when they made it”. It seems quite likely … Read more