Posts filed under “movies”
The Truth According to Wikipedia
Thought-provoking documentary by Dutch film maker Ijsbrand van Veelen, featuring The Cult of the Amateur author Andrew Keen. The Cult of the Amateur on Amazon.co.uk Andrew Keen’s blog
ASCII Star Wars
Very geeky, but very cool: watch Star Wars in your Terminal: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Review: The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly tells the tragic story of former Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who becomes paralyzed after a car accident. He suffers ‘locked-in syndrome’, and can only communicate by blinking his left eye. Despite this tragedy, he manages to dictate his memoirs and the film concentrates on this process. What unfolds is [...]
Film Review: Eastern Promises
David Cronenberg’s latest film stars Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts in a gritty gangster thriller set in North London. It concerns the death of a young teenager, the diary that she leaves behind and the implications of a Russian gang behind her death. Mortensen, who plays the driver of the gang, puts in a performance [...]
Indy 4 Trailer
Okay, so Harrison Ford is old, and there’s no Sean Connery. But. I do wanna see this so much!
Paranoid Park
Prince Charles, Leicester Square Gus Van Sant’s latest film is based on the novel of the same name by Blake Nelson. It features a young skater who accidentally kills a security guard. The film is stunning in parts: many long slow-motion sequences with no dialogue gives the film a dream-like quality in parts. The amateur [...]
Juno
Curzon, Soho Juno has been called the Little Miss Sunshine of the year; this was all I needed to get to the cinema to check it out. It is a quirky comedy based around the pregnant teenager of the title, and the dilemma that she subsequently faces determining the unborn child’s future. With a fantastic [...]
Control
Prince Charles, Leicester Square Based on Deborah Curtis’ book, Touching From a Distance, Control tells the story of Ian Curtis between 1973 and 1980. In one sense, it’s a classic rock star rise and fall, but what gives it an edge is stunning visuals, and lead performances. The film is directed by Anton Corbijn, best [...]
Cloverfield
Empire, Leicester Square Lots of internet-led hype surrounded this film, so I was intrigued, if a little skeptical, about seeing it. The film’s premise is simple: New York is under attack from an unknown creature. What makes the film more interesting, though, is precisely how the audience is shown the story: through a video recording [...]