Category: Reviews
-
Shane – Review
As one of the most name-checked Westerns, you’d expect 1953’s Shane would feel more relevant to us in 2015. Sadly, there’s little of the formal progressiveness of Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West, or the existential overtones of Ford’s The Searchers – Westerns that really made their mark as classics of the genre… Read More >
Written by
-
Forty Guns – Review
When you hear about a classic film, it’s difficult not to be drawn into the hype surrounding it; your opinions can’t help but be formed somewhat by those of others, heightening what should be your own clear, unbiased reaction. If you happen to like, or even love Forty Guns, Samuel Fuller’s 1957 Western, then more… Read More >
Written by
-
The Misfits – Review
You can label almost any film as a ‘movie about movies.’ Eating up cinemas right now is Jurassic World, which constantly nods and winks to the ever-evolving stream of sequels and franchise-building that’s dominating popular film; only a few years ago, Chris Nolan assembled a team not unlike a film crew to bring dreams to the masses.… Read More >
Written by
-
The Salvation – Review
“playing up to the conventionalities of the genre with an ingenious, European twist”… Read More >
Written by
-
The Homesman review
“Though famed, primarily, for his work in front of the screen, Tommy Lee Jones has proven himself behind the camera too, as following on from his directorial endeavour The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada back in 2005, comes his long-awaited sophomore feature The Homesman, which sees the esteemed performer taking on the lead role, too”… Read More >
Written by
