Last night, I had planned to follow Lias timely advice and watch Main Hoon Na on SBS, a hit Bollywood film with a cast of notable Indian actors. I couldn’t sit through the first 10 minutes. I’m pretty easily irritated and the main actor Shakruhk Khan irritates me like a grain of sand embedded in […]
“Red Cliff” is the most expensive Chinese movie made to date, a two-part film depicting the famous battle at Red Cliff, when the Han Dynasty general from North China, Cao Cao, sails a massive fleet down the Yangtze River to invade the lands of Liu Bei and Sun Quan in the South. It’s directed by
This is a little gem of a movie, buried in the back of the drama section at the video store and forgotten. My Beautiful Laundrette is the perplexing story of a young English-Pakistani man trying to scratch out a living in Thatcher era England. His name is Omar, and it’s never really evident what he
There’s something to be said for going to the video store with another person, they’ll be drawn to movies that you’d never otherwise take a second look at. That was certainly the case last night, when I had my tentacles locked on George Romero’s gruesome Dawn of the Dead, but my friend was drawn to
I am always up for a good Almodovar film they’re usually funny and wildly entertaining, even while exploring dark and sombre themes. This year’s Cannes Film Festival included Almodovar’s latest film, Volver, and it won the award for Best Screenplay. Clap-clap-clap when it comes to theatres in Australia, I’ll make a point of going! Volver
Aren’t I lucky? I managed to get sneak preview tickets to the opening of Candy, an Australian film about love, poetry and heroin, featuring Heath Ledger and Geoffrey Rush. Generally speaking, I’m not a fan of love or poetry in film it’s pretty hard to depict either without getting intolerably cheesy. Sometimes, it feels like
My intentions were to watch V for Vendetta after I had read the graphic novel of the same name. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to locate a copy as of yet, and was strangely compelled on the weekend to see the film and review today. Despite the barbaric ticket prices at the theatre, and the
Bollywood films have been mentioned before on this blog, with some commentors feverishly supporting them, and some treating them with indifference… Mira Nair is an Indian director with a keen eye for portaying human emotions, and while her films are proud to show Indian traditions and customs, she doesn’t shy away from social problems like
It is one of my favourite films, and one of the best to have come out of China in recent times. I’m not much of a romantic in fact, you could say that I’m an anti-Romantic, protesting flowers, fancy dinners, and rehearsed pleas of love. Fake romance. our culture is rife with commercialized ways to
Yesterday, I criticized Guardian film critic, Ron Bergan, for being too pretentious about the ‘art of cinema’. Though reading his posts is similar to being reprimanded by your father for throwing dirt in the street, he does have a wide knowledge of film, and his recommendations are probably worth watching. Bergan recommended The Story of
