Anger Management first published by Daily Info, 5 May 2003 Try to imagine The Iliad, Homer’s epic study of anger’s destructive power, transferred from the Town of Troy to the City of New York, rescripted as a film comedy, and directed by Peter Segal, the maker of Naked Gun 33 1/3: the Final Insult (1994)…
28 Weeks Later first published by EyeforFilm, 8 May 2007 Back in the Fifties and Sixties, with the British Empire crumbling, the Cold War in full swing and nuclear devastation only a button away, this sceptred isle seemed to be a cinematic epicentre for world-shaking horror. Time and again in the Quatermass series, as well…
Rec (aka [Rec]) first published by Little White Lies Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and The Blair Witch Project (1999) may have set the ball rolling, but it was the terrors of 11th September, 2001, recorded live by amateurs at the scene, that made reportage the vehicle of choice for today’s horror films, from Diary of the…
Shortbus first published by musicOMH, 1 December 2006 Ever since Woody Allen came along with his Annie Hall (1977) and his Manhattan (1979), his Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and his Husbands and Wives (1992), New York has been established as the American city of the ensemble romantic dramedy, where different characters come together to discuss love, life and politics. Witness…
Avatar first published by EyeforFilm Pandora, the jungle moon at the centre of James Cameron’s Avatar, has a lot of waterfalls. In one scene, protagonist Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) leaps from the top of a waterfall to evade being devoured by a ferocious leopard-like beast known as a Thanator, thus separating himself from his human…