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
Not too long ago, I lamented on how comic books adapted to the silver screen have a nasty habit of being terrible. Well, it’s hard not to like the X-Men. The movies have stellar casts, the special effects are top notch, and the movies try to stay true to the original comic books. That’s good.
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
I recently finished reading the Ultimate Spiderman, a ‘remake’ of The Amazing Spiderman series, slingshotted into the 2000s by updating the era to make it accessible to a younger generation. The original Spiderman was published in the 1960s, where high school ‘jocks’ took cheerleaders to the school dance to do the Cha-Cha; now, Peter Parker
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
When I first saw the trailer for Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, I wasn’t interested at all. Not at all. Usually, college style stoner comedies make fun of visible minorities, poking fun at the accents, the peculiar behavior, the awkward attempts to meet girls Asian and Indians are the butt end of jokes,
