movie reviews
The Road (2009)
Utilising drab filters, crafty visual effects and impressive restraint, Hillcoat’s film is as emotionally devestating as it is visually stunning, thanks in large part to the wonderful cinematography by Javier Aguirresarobe (New Moon). There are no tidal waves demolishing Manhattan, no comets tearing off the spires of tall buildings and no scenes of mass panic and death. Instead, we have allusions to the apocalypse – even the flashback sequences before the collapse of civilisation are presented intimately and without destructive detail…
Moon (2009)
Comparisons to science-fiction classics such as Silent Running and 2001: A Space Odyssey are obvious – but even though the film borrows from not only those films’ concepts but their sensibilities as well, Moon exists in its’ own atmosphere. Key to the films’ success is Sam Rockwell, an actor that has consistently chosen interesting roles throughout his career…
The 50 Best Movies of the Decade
But even with the influx of tedious CGI-based films, it must be said that the decade advanced the art of special effects with leaps and bounds, building steadily on the work first displayed in Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park way back in 1993. These advancements alone allowed films such as The Lord Of The Rings trilogy to finally be put on screen the way it should be seen…
I See Films – Best Of The Decade
Guest writer for GritFX T-Shirts Adam Fay has recently posted his Top 100 Films of the last decade on his blog I See Films (so you don’t have to…)…Stay tuned to GritFX T-Shirts for Wadrick’s Top 50…
The King Of Comedy (1983)
In 1983, Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese had already collaborated on four films together, culminating in De Niro’s Oscar for Raging Bull in 1980. This dynamite team had been at the forefront of the groundbreaking decade of cinema known as the 1970s, and when they made The King Of Comedy in ‘83, the pair had reached a level of singular sophistication in their method and delivery…
GritFX on Best T-Shirts Ever!
The Best T-Shirts Ever website has featured the brand spanking new “Magic Bullet” range by GritFX…Read the review here…
GritFX featured on My Life Thinking
GritFX (yes, that’s us) has been featured by Hisham on his blog My Life Thinking…Read “How GritFX turned Movies, Music & Madness to a T-Shirt” here…
Terminator Salvation (2009)
The first forty minutes of this film is extraordinarily good – so much so that I was reaching to take back the grenade I’d thrown at McG and offer a hand of gratitude. But the perfectly realised wasteland atmosphere, combined with the awesome hardware, is not enough to sustain the second half of the film. It is almost as if two directors were working on the movie, the first half being so out of synch with the second…
Drag Me To Hell (2009)
Director Sam Raimi returns to horror, the genre that gave birth to his career after completing the low-budget classic The Evil Dead in 1983. Raimi’s films have, for the most part, incorporated dark themes (I just won’t mention the atrocious For Love Of The Game – oh no, too late!), and horror is a genre that fits the director like a glove…
Slap Shot (1977)
The Charlestown Chiefs are a two-bit minor league hockey team on the verge of collapse. When the team enlists three sadistic, bespectacled brothers, their violent antics on the ice (they like to play with toys in their spare time) earn the Chiefs a new legion of fans. However, the increasing infamy is no guarantee of the teams’ salvation, and is less than admired by their star player…
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