This week we discuss Ridley Scott’s latest film, The Counselor, Davis Guggenheim’s moving educational documentary, Waiting For Superman, and early awards front-runner, 12 Years A Slave. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Read more »
We explore the limits of human identity in three films this week, a post-apocalytic humanity in exile adventure, After Earth, the latest incarnation of the Superman story, Man of Steel and yet another zombie action blockbuster, World War Z. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Read more »
Will Smith and son Jaden must face their fears after crashlanding on a post-apocalyptic Earth 1000 years in the future. M. Night Shyamalan directs this bland, uninspiring vanity project that could put to bed the acting career of at least one Mr. Smith. Read more »
Winner of the grand prize at this year’s Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, this is the story of Saori, a young working girl who takes a new gig visiting and pleasuring disabled customers in the suburbs of Tokyo. Employing a number of genuinely disabled actors, the film attempts – in its early stages at least […] Read more »
This week we discuss two very different films. First we compare notes on the second instalment of the rebooted Star Trek franchise. Then we take a look at acclaimed Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky's first feature film, Ivan's Childhood, which was recently re-released as part of the Criterion Collection. Read more »
David Fincher’s attack on the 1% proves just as poignant, prescient and thrilling today as it was when it was first released, to much disappointment, back in 1997. Michael Douglas is on great form as the pristine billionaire dragged through the dirt in an increasingly paranoid nightmarish San Francisco, all of which may or may […] Read more »
Venturing across the border I sought out the China version of Marvel’s Iron Man 3, complete with added Wang Quexi and Fan Bingbing. Was it worth it? Not at all. Read more »
We celebrate our quarter century of podcasts with a short special, looking back over this week’s Academy Awards. Having managed to correctly pick 20 and 19 of the winners respectively, James and Fernando reflected on the winners, the whole game of second-guessing the Academy’s hive mind and what the awards say about the year in […] Read more »
While the central protagonist in 50/50 – the other cancer comedy currently playing – was determined to beat the disease and laugh off his impending death, Marley (Kate Hudson) in A Little Bit of Heaven takes a different approach. Successful, popular, yet emotionally cut-off, Marley has never allowed herself to fall in love for fear […] Read more »
It’s clear from watching RED RIDING HOOD that Catherine Hardwicke doesn’t understand what made her previous film, TWILIGHT, so successful. She positions her beautiful young heroine (Amanda Seyfried) in a wintry, woodland outpost where two shirtless hunks from opposing sides of the tracks vie for her affections, all the while suggesting that either one could […] Read more »