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,
Last year, famed Canadian director Bruce McDonald released “The Tracey Fragments”, a movie about adolescent malaise starring Ellen Page, the Juno-darling. Page plays Tracey Berkowitz, a distressed teenage girl, known in her school as ‘the girl with no tits’, distrusted by her parents, looked down upon by her psychiatrist and, like many adolescents, trying to
13 Tzameti” is the type of film that you’d project on a wall at a Halloween dance party. The black and white cinematography augments the nightmarish scenario, making this film feel like something from the back of the skull of a notorious serial killer. Released in 2005, the debut feature of director Gela Babluani is
Alphaville” is a science fiction movie made in 1965, filmed in black-and-white. From that one description, you’d expect tin-hat robots and aliens that look like people, but with weird ears. “Alphaville” though depicts a future which is almost indistinguishable from real life in the 60s. Men wear suits, women wear dresses, people get around in
Based on a series of books by the same name, “The Spiderwick Chronicles” is a vibrant film adaptation that shows the world around us, filled with magical creatures. We’re all used to the story of a mother, a daughter and twin boys move into a decrepit old house outside a small country town in New
In the Valley of Elah” is director/screenwriter Paul Haggis’ adaptation of a Playboy article written by Mark Boal, about the death of Richard Davis, who was killed after returning home from Iraq. The movie finds a release at a profitable time, when its blatant anti war message rings upon sympathetic ears across America. Several years
