Posts Tagged ‘Carey Mulligan’

Shame (2011)

Shame (2011)
Steve McQueen’s second directorial outing after the immensely powerful Hunger (2008) is a raw and unflinching portrayal of addiction and loneliness. Michael Fassbender gives an outstanding performance as the cold and distant Brandon, a man whose existence is built around a well ordered routine and...
May 14th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Drive (2011)

Drive (2011)
2011 was Ryan Gosling’s year, and Drive was his crowning achievement. Or so the polls would have us believe. Nicholas Winding Refn’s movie, about a nameless driver who gets mixed up a dodgy robbery, topped virtually every end-of-year best-movie list, and was garlanded with the kind of plaudits that...
January 29th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Drive (2011)

Drive (2011)
Drive came out months ago, so the world needs another review as badly as Meryl Streep needs another Oscar. And there’s not a lot to say about it: it’s been consecrated as one of the finest movies of 2011 in many Top Ten lists, and I’ll just add my praise to the general consensus. Drive [...]
January 18th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Shame (2011)

Shame (2011)
In his long-awaited second feature, what does Shame has in common with Steve McQueen’s brilliant debut Hunger? Not only do both films feature an astounding performance by Michael Fassbender, but they also explore the damaged human body: one film explores it through hunger, and the other through sexual...
January 16th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Shame (2011)

Shame (2011)
Oh well, here goes. I’m wary about writing this review because it’s the worst kind of review to write. Shame has been put on a pedestal by critics and praised as a work of genius but here’s ignorant little me, someone who just thought it was okay. Am I missing something that everyone...
January 11th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Shame (2011)

Shame (2011)
Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a handsome thirty-something New Yorker hailing from Ireland. He owns a tidy single room apartment, paid for by his respectable corporate job. He has friends. A sociable lifestyle. His outward appearance would point towards the perfect life, but Brandon is also a sex addict....
October 16th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Drive (2011)

Drive (2011)
At the wheel  Drive, directed by Nicola Winding Refn, which showed at many festivals before opening including Cannes and Toronto, is a violent LA thriller that’s too nasty to recommend to the faint of heart. An eye gouged out. An arm slit open all the way down with a sharp knife. A man bashed...
October 4th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Drive (2011)

Drive (2011)
Remember the opening of the first Transporter movie, in which a well-suited Jason Statham drives a car, picks up some bank robbers, a car chase occurs that finishes with his car landing on the top of a car holder? I didn’t, because I am still mesmerised by the opening car chase of Drive, which...
September 26th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Drive (2011)

Drive (2011)
Drive is an action thriller from acclaimed director Nicolas Winding Refn that blends the vibe of some 80s Michael Mann movie with the brutality of a Jim Thompson novel and then squeezes the mixture into a muscle car and begins accelerating ahead of the pack. Ryan Gosling (who may as well change his name...
September 19th, 2011 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Never Let Me Go (2010)

Never Let Me Go (2010)
When you label a movie as sci-fi many people forget that the term encompasses a wide range of thought-provoking material that doesn’t have to include shiny constumes, spaceships, laser guns, teleporters or pointy-toothed aliens. Never Let Me Go is one such sci-fi movie. It’s set in an alternate reality...
May 2nd, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More
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