Is metafictional cinema the newest film genre? In what must surely be the ultimate conclusion to cinematic post-modernism, a few films have been popping up that attempt to blur the line between fiction and reality. Read the rest of this entry »

James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart together on the silver screen? How can you lose? Read the rest of this entry »

The world must seem a terrifying place to Americans. All they see of it are images of enraged and alien people killing one another and targeting American individuals and institutions for bloody revenge. Read the rest of this entry »

Remind me never to go to the North Pole. If the conditions that Dan Simmons describes so meticulously in his latest novel are in any way accurate, it really doesn’t sound like a pleasant place to visit. Extreme cold, hazardous ice floes, frostbite, starvation, scurvy, mutiny, cannibalism: as if that wasn’t enough for these poor sailors to go through, Dan Simmons decides to throw an enormous ice monster into the mix to pick them off one by one. Read the rest of this entry »

The term “taut thriller” gets bandied about quite a bit these days, but no film in recent memory deserves the epithet more than the Coen brothers’ latest piece of work, No Country For Old Men. Read the rest of this entry »

Could this be the most sordid period piece ever filmed? William Shakespeare meets Todd Solondz in the debut film from British director Laurence Dunmore. Read the rest of this entry »

“I’m B, and I’m proud”. That seems to be the attitude of this schlocker from director David R Ellis. This is a B-movie that revels in its own crappiness. Indeed, the concept is so hilariously ridiculous, it generated a pre-release internet hype not seen since The Blair Witch Project back in 1999. Read the rest of this entry »