[photopress:oscars_1.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Hmmm, yes, it’s that time of year again – regular Picturenose, Expatica and European Film Awards readers will already know how ’successful’ I normally am when it comes to picking the film, players, director and writers ahead of the most glittering night in the cinematic calendar. Will my predictions for 22 February 2009 be [...]
[photopress:counterfeiters.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Blood money
It’s always a difficult call, making movies about the greatest atrocity in the history of mankind, namely the Shoah (Holocaust). After all, it can be argued, what right do we have, as mere spectators, to be ‘entertained’ by the recounting of events that, quite simply, cast doubt on the very existence of the [...]
[photopress:clerks.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Store men
In an effort to be absolutely bang up-to-date here on Picturenose, I thought it would be a good idea to review a movie I managed to miss for a good 14 years. I don’t think it necessarily matters, though. You could see it for the first time tomorrow and it would be certain [...]
[photopress:projector_1.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Today’s news starts with something I found quite surprising. In this Associated Press piece on backstage.com, the late Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker in the upcoming The Dark Knight (2008) is compared (favourably) to one Mr J Nicholson’s turn in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975). They even go so far as [...]
Black gold, black hearts, bloody masterpiece
At the risk of being unbearably smug, reviewing films for a living can be an absolutely wonderful occupation – and 2008 would appear to be shaping up into one of the best years for flicks in living memory.