Stop Making Sense
Like most teenagers of my generation I became fanatical about music, obsessive even, and at the high point I was acquiring an average of 4 record albums a week. It's hard…
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Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick started his career as a photographer for Look magazine in New York in the 1940s. His most famous photo captured the look of utter devastation on the face of a newsvendor…
Chaplin
Director Richard Attenborough is the first to admit that his epic biopic Chaplin was a difficult film to finance and consequently the producers made demands upon him which lead it to be not as…
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
Luc Besson came to prominence as the writer/director responsible for some of the most iconic French films of the Cinéma Du Look period including Subway, The Big Blue, Nikita and…
Rango
With Rango, his first completely animated feature film, co-writer / director Gore Verbinski returns to the anarchic spirit of his movie debut Mousehunt as he follows the existential quest of…
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show has always been something of a guilty pleasure dating back to my days as a teenager appearing in am-dram musical revues inspired by it because the performing rights…
Sucker Punch
It infuriates me that Sucker Punch has been universally demonised in the mainstream press for being the one thing that it clearly isn't and anyone with a modicum of intelligence…
Tamara Drewe
It seems that 2010 will be remembered as a boon year for movies derived from comic strips what with Kick-Ass, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and the various Marvel and…
Cléo from 5 to 7
From the opening credits of Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7, you know this is going to be a stylish and important film of the French New Wave, a period of…
The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Baader Meinhof Complex attempts to chronicle in its 150 minute running time the entire decade which saw the rise and fall of the Red Army Faction (RAF), Germany's most…
The Conspirator
As soon as I heard that Robert Redford was directing a film about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln I wanted to see it, more so than the long awaited Steven…
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
A great advantage of parenthood is having the wonderful opportunity to revisit the movies you loved when you were growing up and experience them afresh through your child’s eyes. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is one of those timeless…