Posts Tagged ‘war’

Akira (1988)

Akira (1988)
Even if you’ve not really heard of many anime titles the chances are that you know about Akira. An amalgamation of cool sci-fi and impressive fantasy, this famous animated movie was/is very influential (as much as it is also very heavily influenced by genre predecessors) and holds up to this day...
November 9th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Nagisa Ôshima’s vision of war-torn 1942 Java was met with middling critical reports upon its release in 1983, but the film’s stature has grown over the years and it now arrives on Blu-Ray as something of a cult curio, largely for the assembly of its three leading players – David Bowie,...
October 26th, 2011 | DVD Reviews | Read More

King Lear (1970)

King Lear (1970)
One of the most renowned film versions of King Lear is that of Russian director Grigori Kozintsev, who directed his adaptation in 1970, when he was 65 years of age, and secured an original score by Shostakovich himself. The 2007 American DVD version is becoming hard to find, but affordable region 2 releases...
October 14th, 2011 | DVD Reviews | Read More

The Veteran (2011)

The Veteran (2011)
This smart, gritty, British thriller stars the super-talented Toby Kebbell in the lead role and features some superb supporting turns from the likes of Tony Curran, Brian Cox and Tom Brooke. Perhaps that’s why you expect something more explosive, something just a little bit more . . . . . . . . . ....
August 23rd, 2011 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Beyond the Border (2011)

Beyond the Border (2011)
Beyond the Border boasts in interesting rescue/revenge story, but falls short with too many dull moments between the action and lack of fleshed out characters. It’s the winter of 1942 and although Sweden is neutral in the war, they’ve armed their borders and set up road blocks. A couple of Swedish...
August 8th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Sarah’s Key (2010)

Sarah’s Key (2010)
Explaining the French role in the Holocaust Sarah’s Key, (French title Elle s’appelait Sarah, 111 min., half or one third in English), is an ambitious, at times touching, but overall disappointingly conventional film about the Holocaust in France and its aftermath and denial (with a present-day...
July 29th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Resurrected (1989)

Resurrected (1989)
Based on quite an extraordinary true story (just google “Philip Williams Falklands” to find out more), Resurrected is far from a perfect film but it’s a quietly powerful one and launched the film careers of both Paul Greengrass and David Thewlis, with both having been involved in numerous TV projects...
July 21st, 2011 | DVD Reviews | Read More

The Round Up (2010)

The Round Up (2010)
American critic Roger Ebert once said: “We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.” I understand his meaning but I personally think of cinema as being more like a mirror; it allows us to reflect not only on the present, but also on the past. It allows us [...]
July 14th, 2011 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Essential Killing (2010)

Essential Killing (2010)
“People are strange when you’re a stranger / Faces look ugly when you’re alone / Women seem wicked when you’re unwanted / Streets are uneven when you’re down / People are strange.” Despite being written when he was only five, The Doors’ classic single People...
July 8th, 2011 | DVD Reviews, Feature | Read More

Oliver Sherman (2011)

Oliver Sherman (2011)
A film pretty much designed to be described by the word “brooding”, Oliver Sherman is a quietly impressive movie with numerous moments that make the viewer tense and uneasy, it’s the cinematic equivalent of walking beneath a major lightning storm and expecting to be hit. Garret Dillahunt is Sherman...
June 27th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More
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