Tag: Review
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Happy Birthday.
Just a very quick post to announce that it’s now been over a year since I started my film blog. I have learnt so much in this time and feel that my writing has really developed. I hope that it has been enjoyable to read. It has been very enjoyable to write. I am looking…
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“A Wife Beating Musical.” – Carrie Rickey.
I have previously stated that I think The King of Comedy is possibly Scorsese’s greatest film. It is definitely the best of De Niro and Scorsese’s collaborative pieces. Yet, it is very underrated and occasionally forgotten about amongst their repertoire. Another of their films that gets lost amongst the glory of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull is the magnificent and tragic New York,…
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Stoker.
It is understandable why some people have taken a really strong dislike to Stoker. Firstly, the trailer led us to believe it was going to be a very different film, moving at a much more rapid pace than it turned out to do. Secondly, the style and genre of the film is particularly unique and hard to…
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Occasionally, I will watch a film that will truly haunt me. When this happens I can not seem to get the images or sounds of the film out of my head for several days. After watching The Arbor and Haneke’s Amour, I found myself constantly referring back to these films in my mind and replaying…
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Amour.
There is always a high expectation of a new Michael Haneke film. His recent success with films such as The White Ribbon and Hidden (Caché) have established his importance within contemporary European cinema. What I admire the most about Haneke is his ability to merge beauty and horror so seamlessly. His films, despite their occasionally overbearing messages, rely on the…
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Letterboxd – My Response.
Several weeks ago I came across a website called Letterboxd thanks to a fellow blogger who complied an entry, advertising and explaining the website. Here is the original entry to which I am replying: Hello Letterboxd – thatDandyBoy (Give it a follow, it’s a really interesting blog!) Letterboxd, in a nutshell, is an on-line diary where you can log,…
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The Women, The Words, His World & His Work.
Yesterday I sat in my favourite Picture House and watched a documentary about my favourite film maker and writer. Robert B. Weide’s highly anticipated documentary, Woody Allen: A Documentary rolled in front of me and I drifted away for two hours into my favourite world. Now, it is hard to review a documentary that was never going to…
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Absence of Magic.
I’ve just got back from watching Magic Mike. It turned out to be a dreary and heartless piece of cinema. I was so disappointed. I am not certain of what I was really expecting but it was a complete shambles. If you are going to see this film for a giggle and to peek at some muscles…
Hannah McHaffie 