The World Will Break Your Heart; but… Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
The World Will Break Your Heart; but… Silver Linings Playbook (2012) Hollywood has always had a bit of an odd attitude when it comes to dealing with mental illness. And I’ve likewise always been a little ambivalent about how to relate to it myself; well, as dealt with in the movies, you understand? [column size=”1-5″ last=”0″ style=”0″][/column][column...
Flying High: Flight (2012)
Flying High: Flight (2012) It’s been several days now since I saw Robert Zemeckis’s return to live-action cinema after a hiatus of twelve years; and I still can’t get Flight out of my head. Is this the best performance of Denzel Washington’s career? I think so and that is quite saying something, because Washington is never less than good. Here though, playing ‘Whip’ Whitaker, he goes somewhere else entirely. When we first...
Lincoln – Deliver Me From Worthy Films!
Deliver Me From Worthy Films! There’s an entire day gone out of my life that I’ll never get back again. What’s that you say? Stephen Spielberg’s Lincoln was only two and a half hours long? Good heavens, I must have taken an accidental hit of slo-mo, the drug from Dredd (a far better movie and I’m not kidding!) that makes everything seem to crawl along at a snail’s pace; because I felt as if I was watching Lincoln forever....
In the End, Everybody Breaks: Zero Dark Thirty
In the End, Everybody Breaks: Zero Dark Thirty I would imagine that by now almost anyone turning to a review of director Kathryn Bigelow’s new film Zero Dark Thirty knows that it centres on the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the terrorist behind the bombing of New York’s Twin Towers, amongst other things, by an elite CIA team of investigators. So I’ll set that aside for the moment and at least try to tackle the main controversy that...
The Possession – Movie Review
The Possession (2012) It’s a moot point whether the world really needs another movie about the demonic possession of a little girl; or even possession of anyone if it comes to that. It doesn’t matter because here is indeed yet one more, nor is it likely to be the last. Director Ole Bornedal’s The Possession (good title! Think tank was it, lads?) isn’t too likely to throw anyone any surprises and there’s little here that hasn’t...
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