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DVD Review: ‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans’
★★★★☆ Werner Herzog has made some weird films in his time. Some weird in a good way, some weird in a bad way, some just plain weird. But the near-psychotic German is never afraid of a challenge, even if it involves dragging a steamboat all the way over a hill. With Bad Lieutenant: Port of…
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Film Review: Frozen
★★★☆☆ Adam Green wants to be Steven Spielberg. Within the press notes that accompanied the preview screening of his latest feature, Frozen (2010), Green very overtly expresses his undying love for the legendary director. In addition, the film itself is peppered with references to Spielberg classics ET (1982) and Jaws (1975) and it is the horror and tension of…
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Barbican Film: Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Lodger’
It was only just last year that we saw filmmakers take another crack at this old nut. Cribbing the original title and whisking Hitchcock’s 84-year-old thriller away to the sprawling hills of West Hollywood, we find another ‘Alfred’ – in this case Molina – heading up proceedings.The fact that almost no part of the core…
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Interview: Meir Zarchi, ‘I Spit on Your Grave’
In a recent interview with Meir Zarchi, the horror director spoke openly throughout about the film that sealed his place in cult film history, whilst also explaining how his passion for cinema is still going strong, thirty two years on from making his cult classic I Spit on Your Grave (1978), or Day of the…
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DVD Review: I Spit on Your Grave
★★★★☆ The original I Spit on Your Grave has continued to arouse passionate and polarised responses from audiences since its release in 1978. Banned in nearly every country at some stage and with numerous versions still censored today, it may come as a surprise to many that it’s being released once again as a Collector’s Edition.…
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DVD Review: ‘Mother’
★★★★☆ Revered director Bong Joon-ho is one of a number of South Korean directors that have (rightly) garnered recognition for his cinematic work in the West. His latest film Mother (2009), is a wonderful achievement which deserves just as much praise as his monster hit The Host (2006), and once again utilizes scenes of both graphic violence and…
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DVD Releases: ‘Trash Humpers’
The first thought that will undoubted spring to your mind when you begin watching US indie director Harmony Korine’s latest oddity Trash Humpers (2009) is,”OK, this is weird”. The more you watch though, the more you realise that “weird” is an absolute understatement. With not much of an introduction, we see a bizarre group of figures – apparently…
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DVD Review: ‘Robin Hood’
★★☆☆☆ Has there been a better time in recent memory to return to the age-old English legend of a poor man willing to stand up to a nation’s greedy oppressors? Unfortunately, Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood (2010) manages to miss a ripe opportunity to explore this pertinent element of the famous tale in favour of what is…
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DVD Review: ‘The Ghost’
★★★★☆ Adam Lang, the disgraced ex-British Prime Minister depicted in political thriller The Ghost (2010) and Roman Polanski, the film’s veteran director, share one thing in common – controversy. Unfortunately for both Polanski and his latest effort, The Ghost’s release earlier this year was overshadowed by fresh allegations regarding the Polish-French director’s private life, unjustly…
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Cigarette Burn: The Comic Strip presents…
The movie based on popular comic strip Marmaduke (2010) is out in cinemas now. Marmaduke? Oh, you know Marmaduke, the big dog, created in 1954 and still being made to this day. You must know what I mean!? It’s Marmaduke! Conversations like that are happening up and down the length of the country right now,…
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