Southland Tales
Donnie Darko remains one of those interesting independent movie success stories. It’s script was plucked from a slush pile and deemed worthy of production, with creator Richard Kelly given a small 4.5...
View ArticleBoogie Nights
The 90s were a remarkable time for movies – the rise of indie studios like Miramax, New Line and Lions Gate lead for a new cinematic wave, with numerous original, intelligent and very well made movies...
View ArticleFight Club
Fight Club has an interesting backstory. Its author, Chuck Palahniuk, had previously written Invisible Monsters, which was deemed too disturbing by his publishers, who subsequently rejected it. Having...
View ArticleTroll Hunter
Since the release of The Blair Witch Project over a decade ago, the found-footage, or ‘mockumentary’ genre, has carved quite a niche for itself. A favourite with filmmakers due to the cheap production...
View ArticleA Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange has an infamous history. Anthony Burgess wrote the original novel back in 1962, over a three week period in order to beat a terminal brain-tumour which never quite lived up to it’s...
View ArticleDon Jon
There are certain things which have changed as the internet has grown. Social media platforms have altered the way people perceive others and portray themselves. News is now delivered through online...
View ArticleScott Pilgrim vs. the World
By the time of Scott Pilgrim‘s release in 2010, Edgar Wright had already made a name for himself as brilliant action/comedy director. His previous films with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost – Shaun of the...
View ArticleThe Bling Ring
Sofia Coppola has always been concerned by the lifestyles of the wealthy, casting a casual eye over the disaffected and disaffecting world in which the upper classes live. Her movies – Marie Antonette,...
View ArticleSpring Breakers
It’s interesting that two of the most talked about films of 2013 – Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring and Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers – share a lot of the same themes; youthful hedonistic excess, the...
View ArticleThe Wolf of Wall Street
2013 was the year of excess – the year Hollywood was drawn to decadence, impossible wealth and suspect morals. First there was Korine’s surreal and artistic Spring Breakers, then, Sofia Coppola’s...
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