Safety Not Guaranteed – the debut feature from director Colin Trevorrow – is ostensibly a film about time travel, but is really a film about love and regret. Its science-fictional trappings, although taken seriously as being central to the movie’s plot, thus serve as more of a sideshow to the human relationships which lie at […]
Can Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to ‘In Bruges’ reach the same artistic heights as its much-lauded predecessor? In the meta-fictional spirit of Seven Psychopaths, I’ll begin this review by talking about this review. I found that once I began writing this piece, what had initially been intended as a straightforward film review quickly turned into a […]
Blackthorn (15) DVD review Directed by Mateo Gil, written by Miguel Barros. Running time: 102 minutes approx. Starring: Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Stephen Rea. This is quite possibly the surprise movie of 2012 (released theatrically 2011); a Western, in this cinematic age where they are a rare breed indeed, about a character so entwined […]
Alan Moore is better known as the visionary writer of such comic book classics as Watchmen and V for Vendetta, but he’s recently turned his hand to scripting short films in collaboration with director Mitch Jenkins, the latest of which – Jimmy’s End – is now available to view online. Given Moore’s much-publicised disgust with […]
Griff Williams, the newest operative to join the geekzine’s ongoing crusade, applies his literary scalpel to the latest Disney shopping binge…. If you’ve ever been to one of the Disney theme parks, chances are you’ll have at least seen, and more than likely ridden, Star Tours. For those not in the know, Star […]
When CBS announced its plan to produce a modern-day adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, the casting of Lucy Liu as a female Watson and the shift to a New York setting weren’t (despite the deluge of online negativity) particularly big problems for me. As details about the upcoming series emerged, the question uppermost in my mind […]