“What is this? Is that what I think it is?” Slavoj Žižek husks while approaching a monochrome gadget in the corner of the room. He stares at the object before jumping back aghast. It’s a premium lager tap system. Clearly ruffled by its presence, the Slovene philosopher launches into a Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ Every wondered what would happen should a tornado whip up a frenzy of sharks from the ocean and deposit them onto an unsuspecting American public? Well have no fear, as purveyors of DTV schlock The Asylum have stepped up to answer that question in their imaginatively titled Syfy Channel Continue Reading
★☆☆☆☆ A Saw wannabe from Hong Kong-based director Danny Pang, Fairy Tale Killer (2012) sees a work-obsessed cop investigate a series of bizarre, grotesque murders that lead him closer to home than he first expected. It’s a crime mystery that falls flat on its face in its poor attempts at Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Featuring diminutive heroes wrapped up in a big adventure, Chris Wedge’s Epic (2013) offers old-fashioned, if baggy, family fun. Based on the children’s novel by William Joyce, Wedge blends elements of Bill Kroyer’s eco-adventure Fern Gully (1992) with that of Joe Johnston’s family classic Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989). Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Having picked up the 2008 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar with The Counterfeiters, Austrian filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky now makes his English-language debut with Deadfall (2012). Penned by screenwriter Zach Dean, this neo-noir thriller heads onto DVD and Blu-ray under the radar, despite its star-studded cast. Eric Bana and Olivia Continue Reading