Having prepared myself for a huge budget, Hollywood-friendly, man vs. aliens epic, I found myself somewhat dumbfounded at the bizarre results offered up by the Brothers Strause’s Skyline (2010). On one hand, it is not only derivative of just about every major film of this kind to have emerged over Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ A bedraggled man’s gargling death in a Romero-esque shopping centre sets the stage for this exemplary Mexican horror-satire, the preternaturally assured debut of Jorge Michel Grau. No sooner has the man collapsed to the faux marble floor, than a maintenance team scamper into frame, dragging the body away and Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Midway through Woody Allen’s latest dramedy, Anna Friel’s small role as a budding artist laments to her long time friend Sally (Naomi Watts) that the affair she has recently entered into has turned her life into something resembling a soap opera. This description could not be a more apt Continue Reading