Film Review: Side Effects (2012)
byIn many ways, Side Effects is the perfect swan song for Soderbergh. Like many the films in his catalog, it is impeccably made, with the director showing his panache for composition, framing and editing throughout.
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Film Review: Beautiful Creatures (2012)
byIf you’re a fan of teenage fiction, especially the supernatural kind, you’ll anticipate the plot as you go along. Intense adolescent love, implied sex scenes that are powerful enough to quite literally start fires, long gazes with no words spoken, not to mention a bottomless bag-full of tricks, spells and special effects, Richard La Gravenese’s adaptation has it all.
Film Review: Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir (2011)
byThe film’s closed environment of two friends talking is candid and equally engaging, while the insights into some of Polanski’s more memorable films is engrossing for any fan of the filmmaker’s work.
Film Review: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
byIt must be almost fifteen years since I last saw Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Between the ages nine and twelve, Harrison…
Film Blerg’s Top Ten of 2012
byHaving spent much time carefully considering the options, Film Blerg is happy to present our Top 10 of 2012 (or as we affectionately call…
Film Review: Psycho at the Astor
byMarion Crane (Janet Leigh) looks wary as she hurriedly drives away from Phoenix, Arizona. It’s getting late, almost dusk. Pulling close on her profile we…
Wednesdays with Woody: Whatever Works (2009)
byAfter five years of working throughout Europe and the UK, Woody Allen returned to his native New York for production on his 39th feature…
Wednesdays with Woody: Anything Else (2003)
byAnything Else tells the story of Jerry Faulk (Jason Biggs), a frustrated New York writer who scribbles one-liners for nightclub comedians while dreaming of…
Wednesdays with Woody: Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
byThe beginnings of Sweet and Lowdown take root some thirty years before cameras would start rolling in the Fall of 1999. The story goes that…
Wednesdays with Woody: Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
by“Achilles only had an Achilles heel… I’ve got an Achilles body.” Seven years after being coerced into adopting a baby boy by his art-dealing…