Wadrick Jones
Dead Actors Society
Each Oscars ceremony always includes an ‘In Memoriam’ segment, paying tribute to those in the movie world who have passed away in that particular year. Rarely mentioned are those fringe-dwellers, those faces you recognise but can’t put a name to, those people who have never been invited to the world’s largest smugfest…
The Best Death Scene In Movie History
The Best Death Scene In Movie History (aka The Most Absurd Death Scene In Movie History)…
The Ten Best Films I Saw In 2011
There were some great films released in 2011. Lars VonTrier, despite his Hitler comments at Cannes, produced another great work in Melancholia. Woody Allen served up his best film in years with Midnight In Paris. Kevin Smith tried something different and almost succeeded with his off-beat horror film Red State. Margin Call and The Ides Of March proved that decent drama is not yet dead. The much-maligned Apollo 18 breathed new life into the slowly fading mockumentary sub-genre, much like last years’ The Troll Hunter…
Marvel Minimalism
Marko Manev, a comic artist and illustrator from Macedonia has created some wonderful minimalist poster designs for Marvel characters…
RIP Ken Russell
Avant-garde British filmmaker Ken Russell of “Altered States” fame has passed away at age 84…
Akira 2.0
Just how much will the live-action remake of Akira suck? Probably a lot. Read more at i09.com (they’re from the future!)…
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly why The Adjustment Bureau fails as a film. Based on the Philip K. Dick story “Adjustment Team”, George Nolfi’s adaptation is, from memory, quite faithful to the source material. But like many of the works of author Stephen King that have been translated to the screen, something goes awry. Perhaps it is the simple fact that some novels and short stories are not suited to celluloid treatment. But why is that?…
Bill Hunter – An Oz Icon
To me, Bill will always be the sympathetic Major Barton in the trenches of Peter Weir’s Gallipoli, softly humming to Adagio in G Minor as he writes one final letter to his wife. Despite appearing in more than sixty films, if there is any regret to be had at the passing of Bill Hunter it is that he did not make more films for us to enjoy in perpetuity…
Stephen King Speaks
Read James Parker’s interview for The Atlantic: Stephen King on the Creative Process, the State of Fiction, and More…
Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
My instinct with Battle: Los Angeles is to drive in the skewer, place it over an open fire and roast it until the skin begins to crackle. But I’m not going to do that. A film with a title of “Battle: Los Angeles” damn well better deliver a battle in Los Angeles. And that’s exactly what this film does. It offers no apologies for its by-the-numbers approach, and as an audience member with popcorn box and coke in hands, it delivers precisely what you’d expect…
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