Picturenose

Classic Cronenberg

He can seemingly do no wrong; Canadian David Cronenberg, responsible for some of the finest examples of films that really do hit you where you live, has crossed the Atlantic to the UK for his first effort ever to be filmed completely outside his home country.

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Scary vampires, back from the dead

Marlow: “It’s taken us centuries to convince them that we don’t exist.”

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What? Extended Python? And I thought this was a film site. Fear not, for despite the innuendo-laden title, I have some superb news. Many of you may be wondering why, at the end of Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the self-proclaimed Suicide Squad stepped forward and promptly, well, committed suicide. I had wondered this myself for some time.

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Golden shower

In keeping with this reviewer’s general apathy towards the zeitgeist (I haven’t read a single Harry Potter tome, either), I must confess to allowing the Philip Pullman/Golden Compass craze to have completely passed me by.

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What dreams may come…

Woody Allen completes his ‘London trilogy’ with this surprisingly dark, moody effort. The title refers to the name that close-knit brothers Ian (Ewan McGregor) and Terry (Colin Farrell) Blaine give to their newly acquired pleasure boat, paying some £6,000 for which only adds to the pair’s financial difficulties - Terry’s a gambler whose habit is spiralling out of control, while Ian is looking to invest in a Californian hotel chain, to get away from the struggling restaurant of his father (John Benfield). A surprise visit from their generous millionaire uncle Howard (Tom Wilkinson) could be their way out of a hole, but the potential benefactor has a surprise request - Howard’s looking to make a real killing of his own, and he wants his nephews’ help…

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Picturenose’s very own James Drew talks to legendary boundary-pusher Ken Russell about his most controversial film, The Devils, and joins the growing clamour (and petition) for a speedy DVD release.

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Game for anything

Tom Ripley (John Malkovich): You’re not planning on singing me through the door, are you?
Reeves (Ray Winstone): I’ve got the Carregio in here.
Tom Ripley: Well, you’re not coming in.
Reeves: I’m fucking coming in.
Tom Ripley: No, because it’s not a Carregio, it’s a Correggio. Just like it’s not tacco but ta-a-cco. Not pasto but pasta, see? Your entire education comes from classic car magazine and you dress like you’re on a condom run for the mob. By the way, it isn’t a Correggio, it’s a fake Rembrandt and until you know that, you’re not coming in with me.
Reeves: Don’t fuck me over here, pratt.
Tom Ripley: Don’t threaten me. I’m not the one wearing an earring.

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Moore’s medicine goes down great

The self-appointed scourge of misguided US values (Roger & Me (1989), Bowling For Columbine (2002), Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)) is back with a vengeance – watching Sicko, it’s impossible to shake Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s hilarious ‘marionette Michael Moore’ take in Team America: World Police (2005): “Bring it all down! Bring it all down!”

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Staying power

Marc Forster’s Vanilla Sky-esque vision of what dreams may come, Stay, is worth coming back to.

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A thing of darkness…

With a storyline that still leaves audiences asking questions, John Carpenter’s terror and suspense tour de force, The Thing (1982), is undeniably one of the landmark horror films of the 20th century.

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