Archive for the ‘Film Reviews’ Category

Silent House (2011)

Silent House (2011)
I hated this movie. Well, I hated the first hour, at any rate, and when I realised it had no intention of trying to get better, I walked out. I was not the first person in the screening to do so. The film is, in its way, technically ambitious, the whole thing ostensibly a single [...]
April 30th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Goodbye, First Love (2011)

Goodbye, First Love (2011)
Honest look at early passion Hansen-Løve’s first two films tackled subjects like family dissolution, addiction, and suicide. Her delicate, intelligent, naturally cinematic treatment of such challenging material has established her, at 30, as one of today’s best young French filmmakers....
April 30th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

The Arriviste (2012)

The Arriviste (2012)
$9,500 seems like a lot of money, unless you’re making a movie with it, which is exactly what one-man film crew Pascal Santschi did with his début effort, The Arriviste; a black comedy about a guy whose brother causes him more trouble in death than he ever did in life. The film’s protagonist,...
April 30th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Scabbard Samurai (2010)

Scabbard Samurai (2010)
A ’ronin’, famously, is a masterless samurai, but what do you call a swordless samurai? Why, you call him Scabbard Samurai, of course! The title character in this samurai comedy is named Kanjuro Nomi, but he has almost no dialogue. His wife died in an epidemic, and now he sadly and swordless wanders...
April 29th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Terraferma (2011)

Terraferma (2011)
A small island off the coast of Sicily is home to a small community of fishermen and other villagers, most of whom make their living by catering to tourists. The tourists come for the climate and love to hang out at the beach. Every early morning, the locals are picking up the trash that has [...]
April 29th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011)

The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011)
Wow. If you are at all interested in mythologically based fantasy, with plenty of magic, demons, comedy, romance, kung fu and senses-shattering special effects of the highest magnitude, you quite simply gotta see this movie. It is cute and beautiful and full of grand spectacles. Just jaw-dropping. It...
April 29th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Poongsan (2011)

Poongsan (2011)
One of the most well-regarded South Korean directors is Kim Ki-duk, famous for such titles as The Isle (2000), Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (2003), Samaritan Girl (2004) and 3-Iron (2004). When he doesn’t direct, he furnishes other directors with screenplays, and that is the case for...
April 29th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

4 Days in May (2011)

4 Days in May (2011)
It is the very last days of 1945. The Russians are swarming Germany. The routed German soldiers are trekking west and north, because they prefer to surrender to the British rather than the Russians. In this movie, a tiny contingent of eight Russian soldiers arrive at a tiny and almost abandoned German...
April 29th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Low Life (2011)

Low Life (2011)
One of the themes most often addressed in current European cinema is that of illegal aliens trying to enter Europe and escape their previous life of poverty or persecution. Although these movies (of which a few recent examples are The Invader from Belgium, Indignados from France and Terraferma from Italy)...
April 26th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011)

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011)
At this moment in time, I have to say that I’m pretty much in league with all of the other males being dragged along to the cinema to see these movies. I sit there thinking “why, why, why?” and then I plot ways for my good lady to make it up to me. In my [...]
April 26th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
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