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Underworld film review

Underworld’s trailer makes it looks wonderfully slick and dark in the tradition of The Matrix and Blade; but after seeing it, you’ll realize that everything that seemed dazzling was simply stolen and then abused – from its Dark Shadows-meets-Matrix costumes to its Blade weaponry to its Nine Inch Nails video backdrops. Nothing about Underworld is ….

The Usual Suspects film review

The Usual Suspects, the heavily hyped new film from Bryan Singer, is finally here, and with it comes the answer to the riddle posed in its high-powered ad campaign, "Who is Keyser Soze?" Keyser Soze is a semi-mythical crime kingpin who ultimately directs the actions of five small-time hoods. With the promise of $91 million ….

U Turn film review

0 I can’t imagine U Turn in any director’s hands except Oliver Stone’s. Breaking free from his political obsessions, Stone explores new territory, giving the material a stark edge, innovation, and a thick, memorable atmosphere. In one film he investigates adultery, incest, bad luck, Indian philosophy, gambling, paranoia, murder, deception, fraud, money, and the Russian ….

Vertigo film review

Awesome and brilliant, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo was recently restored, and its power is immense. Jimmy Stewart never did finer work, and Hitchcock’s masterpiece, though its meaning may be lost on many, reveals a man at his most obsessed — an apt metaphor for Hitch himself. The restored Vertigo features vibrant colors and a crystal clear ….

Woman Thou Art Loosed film review

It can be extremely difficult to deal with such heavy issues as incest, ignored abuse, and redemption without allowing the topics to take over in lieu of connecting with the characters involved. And nobody wants to take issue with films about women climbing out of victimization because we all hate to see the wimp who ….

The Wrong Man film review

Hitchcock famously hated the police – thanks to an experience as a youth in which his father had him locked up at the local jail – and more than any other film The Wrong Man exudes that sentiment. Based on the 1953 case of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero, The Wrong Man is a true story (the ….

28 Days Later film review

What is the best way to describe 28 DAYS LATER? Well if you take the Armageddon-like feeling of Planet of the Apes (the original), mix it with the shaky camera shooting style of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, and add in a little B-Rated late 70’s horror flick seasoning, that’s what this movie is. I liked ….

42 Up film review

It gets longer every seven years! Now clocking in at a monstrous 2 hours, 19 minutes, the sixth installment of Michael Apted’s ambitious but uniformly unenlightening 7 Up series drags us down a familiar road, kicking and screaming all the way. Yet again, Apted shows us how the baker’s dozen of Brit-kids he first profiled ….

About the film Shotgun Stories

Official website: www.shotgunstories.com  Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family. A film by: Jeff Nichols Release Date: 23rd of ….

Soon in cinemas The Escapist

Frank Perry is a lifer; in prison for the rest of his natural born days. He’s never had a problem with that: he did the crime; he’ll do the time. Until now. He receives a letter telling him that his only and much loved daughter is critically ill following an overdose. He knows that he ….

The People Vs. From Dusk Till Dawn

Defending From Dusk Till Dawn Released:1996 Director: Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, Sin City) Writer: Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2) Cast: Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, Ernest Liu, Salma Hayek Synopsis: Two cavorting outlaw brothers (Clooney and Tarantino) kidnap a preacher and his two children (Keitel, Lewis, and Liu) ….