I recently watched High Fidelity again it’s even better now that I’ve become old enough to be surly enough to be jaded. What? It’s a 2000 film based on Nick Hornby’s novel, and the movie plays out like a giant clockwork golem great pacing, amazing narration and interesting dialogue make it so rewatchable. The cast […]
I’ve been in the mood for classic Hollywood films lately it started with The Maltese Falcon, and I’ve been crossing them off the list, one-by-one. Naturally, I’ve seen It’s a Wonderful Life several times when I was an anklebiter. Around Christmas, it played on free TV, maybe twice or even three times in a week.
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
George Lucas in Love is a rock ’em, sock ’em mashup of Shakespeare in Love and the life of George Lucas. It’s a short film about George Lucas’ life as a film student in California. This pre wealth George is rake, thin and nervous, still sporting the glasses and facial hair, and trying to finish
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
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
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
