These days even movie reviews have sequels. As Fast and Furious 6 races into cinemas today it becomes baffling to the point of admiration that the franchise built of speed (and little else) has managed 5 sequels in 12 years. This week marked a rare and unusual event for me, not only did I venture [...]
Orson Welles is a name you should probably be familiar with. If you are not suitably familiar, and have no desire to redeem yourself by becoming so extremely swiftly, then you should probably leave and never darken my doorstep again. Go on. And pull the door to as you go. There. Now that we are [...]
Can you believe it’s been four years since J.J. Abrams triumphantly rebooted Star Trek? No. Me neither. I can clearly recount events of the day I saw the 2009 blockbuster, not least because the screening proceeded a successful date, from which I rushed, flushed and fleet-footed to the IMAX on London’s South Bank. Seated with [...]
In keeping with the spirit of Share Your Shame, I’m going to start with a guilty confession. As passionate and engaged with the medium of film as I am, as intelligent and reasonable and considered a person I would like to believe myself to be, I have the occasional failing. Despite all the movie pretensions [...]
Konga is a surprising little film. Looking at the cover I immediately assumed it was a sixties version of King Kong. Although both films have a giant gorilla; that is more victim than perpetrator; and is destroyed for no other reason than it’s big, there the similarity could be said to end. This is a [...]
