It’s easy to knock a series of big budget films targeting children as its main audience; and it’s even easier to knock the mass popularity…
“We’re havin’ too good a time today, we ain’t thinking about tomorrow”, states the 1930s outlaw John Dillinger, played by Johnny Depp, in Public Enemies.…
Michael Mann's Public Enemies, which I saw last night with a tough late teen/early 20's crowd whose only mumbled reaction their limited mindset could churn…
Mann, Depp, Dillinger. Throw in a bit of Bale and you have an explosive mix of cinematic talent that can't fail to draw interest,…
The title Giallo refers, generically, to a distinctive kind of Italian horror-thriller film, of which writer-director Dario Argento has been a leading exponent since his…
The penultimate (one more to come) article celebrating the often told cinematic story of notorious 1930's Chicago gangster John Dillinger and the classic gangster genre of film…
Another day, another quirky indie movie written by an unknown. It is becoming a given that first-time writers (and frequently, though not in this case,…
Ray isn't too fucking fond of the new TRANSFORMERS film. But did you really expect any other reaction?
In 1966 Jean Luc Godard made a film Two or Three Things I Know About Her, about a Parisian housewife who prostituted herself in order…
Greg Mottola announced himself as a filmmaker-to-watch with 2007’s excellent Superbad, channelling the spirits of two well loved American directors: John Hughes and Richard Linklater. With his…
Ron Howard’s next movie is THE DA VINCI CODE sequel ANGELS & DEMONS with Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgaard and Armin Mueller-Stahl, due out on May 15th 2009.