Film Review: Rashomon (1950)
byA conversation between Nick Alexander, Joanna Di Mattia and Scott Halligan Synopsis: Three men – a woodcutter, a priest and a commoner – seek shelter…
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Film Review: The Hidden Fortress (1958)
byA conversation between Nick Alexander, Joanna Di Mattia and Scott Halligan Synopsis: In feudal Japan, two greedy peasants are tricked into escorting a princess –…
TV Recap: Fargo, S01E09
byThe ninth, and penultimate episode of Fargo is an extremely tense and absorbing experience. The show again starts off with something visually disorienting –…
Film review: Shane (1953)
by‘A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.’ These are words to live by. These are words…
TV Recap: Fargo, S01E08
byThe eighth episode of Fargo starts with happy music and shots of robotic arms and other mechanisms beavering away in an industrial factory….
Film Review: The Rover (2014)
byIt has been four years since David Michôd’s auspicious debut feature film Animal Kingdom was released, but now he is back with The Rover,…
Film Review: 13 Assassins (2010)
byMidway through Takeshi Miike’s 13 Assassins (2010), a man in a tavern jokes, ‘These days, swords are only good for cutting radishes.’ It might…
TV Recap: Fargo, S01E07
byThis is another strong episode in a very good series, and decidedly less violent compared to last week’s instalment. The episode starts with a…
Film Review: Rising From Ashes (2012)
byT.C. Johnstone’s documentary charts the journey of the Rwandan cycling team a decade on from the 1994 Hutu-Tutsi conflict. Johnstone introduces us to the…
TV Recap: Fargo, S01E06
byWow, this is a very dark and serious episode. Shit just got very real in Fargo. Basically, many threads of the story have a…