Joseph Walsh
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London Southbank: Tracey Emin’s ‘Love is What You Want’
Recently, I was invited to view Tracey Emin’s latest exhibition ‘Love is What You Want‘ and write a piece about it. You maybe asking yourself why I am I reporting on an art show seeing as I write for a film blog? Well firstly, Emin’s show is a mixed media exhibition incorporating sculptures, paintings, prints,…
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DVD Releases: ‘Patagonia’
Directed by Marc Evans, Patagonia (2010) tells two parallel stories about road journeys, one in Argentina and the other in Wales. The premise seems promising enough and could have resulted in a great movie. Instead it only leads to a vacuously expended hour and half of my life that I won’t get back. But before…
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DVD Review: ‘Ironclad’
★★★☆☆ Swords, knights, castles and a cruel king, what more could a boy ask for? Not much! Ironclad (2011) shows what a talented director can do on a relatively small budget (roughly $25,000,000). It appealed to my boyish obsession with knights riding around on horseback, swinging swords, wreaking havoc, and generally unleashing the dogs of…
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Interview: John Malkovich takes to the Barbican stage
Last weekend saw the opening of The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer (2010) starring John Malkovich. Loosely speaking, it is a play that merges baroque opera with dialogue telling the autobiographical tale if Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger. The play has met with critical success and is touring until November when Malkovich will…
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Film Review: ‘Potiche’
★★★★☆ There are so many reasons to love François Ozon’s latest film, Potiche (2011). It possesses jollity, a strong sense of playfulness and boasts the fact that it reunites the much-loved belle dame of French cinema Catherine Deneuve with the larger than life Gerard Depardieu (her last role was opposite him in the 1988 film…
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Prince Charles Cinema: ‘Killer Klowns From Outer Space’
Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988) delightfully poor premise follows a U.F.O. resembling a circus tent full of maniacal monster ‘klowns’ armed to the teeth with fairground-based weapons lands on earth with the intent of attacking the residents of a small American town. The film has a fairly spectacular cast of B-movie actors (Grant Commer,…
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BFI BUG: Moby Special
Films come in all shapes and sizes, big, small, short and long. Film is expansive and exists in many formats and platforms both inside and outside of the cinema. There exists a plethora of films that critics just don’t give any attention to including trailers, adverts, film portraits, and of course, music videos.Last week’s event…
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DVD Release: ‘Biutiful’
I rarely believe that a film deserves five stars, but I would argue that on this particular occasion, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful (2010) deserves every one of them. As a director, Iñárritu is known for his deft skills at storytelling, proving himself in previous films such as Babel (2006) and 21 Grams (2003). Biutiful takes…
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DVD Review: ‘Budrus’
★★★★★ Budrus (2009) is a truly remarkable documentary of great power. The film documents Budrus, a small village in Palestine on the borders of Israel, and the story of the village leader who unites Fatah, Hamas and members of the international community in a peaceful protest against occupying troops attempting to erect the dividing wall.The…
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London Australian Film Festival 2011: ‘Red Dog’
★★★★☆ Last week I was fortunate enough to attend the opening gala of this year’s London Australian Film Festival. The festival opened with the UK premiere of Red Dog (2011) with an introduction from the film’s producer Nelson Woss. Red Dog tells the delightful and heart-warming legendary tale of a dog that roamed the Australian…