My feud with Zack Snyder is the stuff of internet legend. I hated 300 and Watchmen, and will never, ever forgive him for Sucker Punch, the most offensive film of the last 20 years. But I’m a fair man and am willing to give him [...]
I saw the first Star Trek movie when it hit cinemas and that was very much my baptism into the franchise. I’d seen people doing the Vulcan finger things and heard some gibberish about ‘red shirts’ dying first, but, other than that, I knew nothing [...]
Watching (and reviewing) action movies is kind of a pointless task for me. Sure, The Raid was my No.3 movie of 2012, but that was an anomaly, given the fact that I’ve not enjoyed another action film in years. I found The Avengers massively underwhelming [...]
The Place Beyond the Pines is a weird film, and I think that needs to be said before I start. Adverts have sold it to look like the bastard lovechild of Drive and Silver Linings Playbook, in a drive to get punters in for their [...]
For all the hipster raving about its ‘credibility’, there’s been quite a lot of, well-judged but sniffy, cynicism reserved for Spring Breakers. The conceit of having former Disney stars doing TOTALLY OUTRAGEOUS things is not exactly original, and the trailers could hardly have looked more [...]
It’s pretty rare that I see a short film that impresses me enough to blog about it, but here’s one: Between Beasts, a short animated film by 19-year-old Swedish filmmaker Jesper Eriksson. First off, I’d recommend you watch it. So, there you go. It’s 7 minutes [...]
