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Not up to speed Since his Oscar-winning The Departed (2006), Martin Scorsese, the man who can perhaps lay claim to being America’s greatest living director, has been going a little ‘experimental’, with a documentary on The Rolling Stones, Shine A Light (2008) and a Spanish short, The Key To Reserva (2007) his only cinematic output. Now, [...] Little clarity of vision Based on the well-received Chinese film Gin gwai (Jian gui) (2002) by Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang, David Moreau and Xavier Palud make over the original story of Lee Sin-je’s young woman who receives a corneal transplant that restores her sight (she’s been blind since early childhood) but also [...] Taken to the edge Troy Kennedy-Martin’s original BBC TV series, way back in 1985, was groundbreaking, both in the darkness of its subject matter, and its willingness to take risks. Director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale (2006)), then as now, revealed an all-encompassing conspiracy lurking at the edge of everything, and the price that one man must [...] Long is the way, and hard… Picturenose is embarking on a bit of a ‘films we have always meant to review’ trip, and this really is one I should have done some time ago. The greatest murder mystery, ever? Discuss. There are some cinematic experiences that will stay with you, period. Picture the scene – back [...] So-so Row Back in the early 1980s, when old Shep was a pup and Michael Meyers/Jason Voorhees and Freddy Kreuger had not yet become post-modern icons, the stalk ‘n’ slash/slice ‘n’ dice horror experience was still in its relative infancy, but the decade as a whole came to be deluged with a steady stream of examples [...] Not boxing clever It’s an interesting enough idea – The Box (2009) by Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko (2001), adapted by the director from the Richard Matheson short story Button, Button) has a provocative talking point at its core – would you push a button that you knew would kill a complete stranger somewhere, if the prize [...] Back in the darkness Catalonian and Spanish directors Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza are back on the scene, with their sequel to the sublime, terrifying [Rec] (2007). So, does the second slice of P.O.V. pandemonium match up to the first? Well, yes and no. As already said, the same directors reunite (and Picturenose had a chance [...] An offer you still can’t refuse… It’s ‘re-release city’ in the UK at the moment – Francis Ford Coppola’s seminal The Godfather (1972), an adaptation of Mario Puzo’s novel, has also returned to big screens in recent weeks. Radio Armageddon Way back in 1968, George A. Romero’s enormously influential horror Night of the Living Dead was first unleashed on unsuspecting audiences. Its deceptively simple set-up – a group of survivors barricade themselves away from apocalyptic events, the situation deteriorates as what’s outside threatens to get in – has been used so often since (to [...] |
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