It’s academic
Following three years of me deriding James and poking him with a big stick on account of his truly average attempts at picking the Oscar winners, he finally snapped and said “if you can do better, please be my guest”. That was the gist of it anyway, but I do remember the sentence being [...]
Ah, wonderful! The eclectic, exciting Brussels film festival season begins in earnest, as it has done twice previously, with OffScreen, the annual rendez-vous for extraordinary cinema enthusiasts. Taking place over three extended weekends from 4-21 March, Brussels’ Cinema Nova, Cinematek, Bozar and RITS Cinema will be buzzing with cult-film screenings, featuring rare cinematic gems including [...]
The Master of Suspense’s Top Ten? Tell us if you agree…
1. North by Northwest (1959)
Simply his best outing – the master ratchets up the tension in this classic tale, which starts off with a New York skyscraper as the backdrop to very stylish credits and a roaring Bernard Hermann score.
He’s back! The splendid Cillian Donnelly returns, he who some time ago presented his first list of 100 Movies To Be Seen Before You Die. Enjoy his latest thrilling installment!
101. Orpheé (1950)
Post-war retelling of the Orpheus legend, featuring a dominatrix Angel of Death, Nazified celestial dispatch riders and poetic fragments broadcast over short-wave radio.
Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
Bond Beauty
There is increasing speculation (probably generated by publicists) about the possibility of a 100-1 outsider taking up the reins of the 23rd James Bond outing. When will it be out? What will it be called? We don’t know, but we do know who many of the big names in the business are touting as [...]
Strike a light
OK, smoke ‘em if you got ‘em. Or rather don’t, because the kids might think you’re cool and hip and that would never do. Apart from grossing some eleventy billion dollars at the box office, James Cameron’s Avatar (2009) is busy corrupting our youth and tearing at the very fabric of society. Why? [...]
Unless, of course, you know different?
Some actors are just so good that we can forgive them their little peccadillos – let’s face it, George Clooney is a top bloke, but not all of his films are great, and not all the roles he casts himself in are well-advised. And Johnny Depp – for every Donnie [...]
And you thought film fans were geeky?
‘What’ (I hear you cry) ‘is machinima?’ Well, for a start, it’s going to be one of those things you know about or don’t, simple as that. The actual word itself is a portmanteau of ‘machine animation’(badly spelled in the end, but the name stuck), and is pronounced mash-in-imma, [...]
Probably not. But there are such things as free movies. A quick peek around the internet will reveal a rich seam of free stuff to watch. OK, some of it is really, really bad – but sometimes you get what you pay for. As a kind of ‘Free Movies for Dummies’ guide, Picturenose presents enough [...]