This film opens with a prairie dog climbing out of its hole to look around. Promptly, it is almost decapitated by some young folks on a wild joy ride in a flat, jejune plain. So it goes in this enjoyable movie. From beginning to end there are many variations of human strifing and nick-of-time escapes. There is […]
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Although I didn’t like some aspects of this film, I gave it a decent grade, based on the stunts, exciting sequences, editing, special effects, sound track and some twists. I thought the director & team did well in these areas. I thought the fundamental concept driving this film attempted absurdly to propose that there existed a ”super-hero” character latent […]
This movie is saved from disaster primarily because it had good music accompanying the action and because the photography had a moody beauty. The latter effect was due to the suggestive, portentious and lyrical quality of wind blowing through trees and grass, as well as the good composition of people suddenly becoming “planted.” Therefore, both […]
Well directed and edited, this was a film that seemed to be more than it actually is. One can be mesmerized by the special effects, as well as the frequent and often lengthy chases and general strifing. The music, sound effects (often some kind of shooting firearm), and roar of the Hulk (Ferrigno’s voice) all […]
The shining- On the ‘axe’s’ edge!
Stanley Kubrick demonstrates how horror and terror can be carved on a screen, in his 1980 film The Shining. Based on a novel of the same name by Stephen King ‘The Shining’ proves to be a horror Avant-garde. At the same time it vividly states that blood and gore which […]
Scarface- A flamboyant tragedy!
A year after ‘Blow Out’, Brian De Palma loosely remakes the 1932 film of the same name and this time his script is penned by Oliver Stone. Al Pacino and Steven Bauer play the leads of this passionate but powerful movie. With a historical background, the life of Tony Montana, a […]
Sexy as well as skanky!
‘Films or commercials, Whatever you do, do it in style’, seems to be the motto of Jonathan Glazer who has directed this Sexy Beast written by Louis Mellis&David Scinto. We admire this Pocket sized dynamite as soon as we see it, we are awe-struck when its […]