Archive for October, 2009
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Released 30th October 2009
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What is it that Danny ‘one-take’ Dyer does best? You’ve guessed it: Playing the entertaining East-End light relief, with a tough-guy cockney accent in a drug-infused gangster movie. Director Alex De Rakoff (The Calcium Kid) seems to have discovered the elixir of eternal film magic; the return of the Danny Dyer and Tamer Hassan double act. Surely, any film with The Football Factory stars in, is an instant box office hit?
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Released 30th October 2009
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If debut writer/director Steven Kastrissios needed a forum to vent some deep-seated inner rage, he picked a challenging one in cinema. The revenge movie has been done and done to death may times before. Although The Horseman is raw and brutal, it is also quite a ballsy portrayal of pure and unadulterated revenge that challenges our preconceptions and ethics, rather than leading its avenger (and us) along a bloody road to near self-destruction, then salvation. It not only questions what would we do in such an emotive situation if the shoe was on the other foot, but it also attempts to show shades of grey in most of its scenarios and character representations, rather than displaying the standard black-and-white found in many revenge slashers of past. It is an Australian revenge movie with a heart - if such can co-exist?
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Released 30th October 2009
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“Education, education, education!” is what the folks always stress, long before certain politicians adopted the saying. This wonderfully vibrant British coming-of-age tale by author Nick Hornby addresses the impact of education for young females in the 1960s, questioning its value in an age where female emancipation and dependence was only beginning to make any real ground in the sexual revolution.
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Released 28th October 2009
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Remember the joy that making a small rag doll brought as a kid and the need to love and care for it? This gothically charming and uniquely imaginative tale may deal with a post-apocalyptic fallout on the surface, with the end of the human race a sobering fact, but it actually explores the depth of the human soul that appears to translate into inanimate objects, bringing their very being and purpose alive. This intriguing concept comes with that telltale Tim Burton flare, complete with blade-styled limbs (as in Edward Scissorhands) and a looming, menacing danger to all characters involved.
