Where No Bond Has Gone Before. NB: Above the video, guaranteed no spoilers! Comments which contain spoilers occur after the video, and are preceded by A VERY LARGE WARNING J Casino Royale was the perfect Bond reboot, and opened up so many possibil...
Month: October 2012
Barbara
I have yet to see one review of this film which doesn't compare it to The Lives of Others, which I think does Barbara a real disservice. I suppose the obvious connection is that both films are set in East Germany in the 1980s, but whereas Florian ...
Looper
You know what? Despite all the time-travel hype, this film is really about the strength of love, and doing the right thing. It's quite a clever concept; the whole time travel bit works if you don't think too hard about it, and it moves at such a p...
Samsara
An absolutely beautiful film that will say something different to everyone who sees it. IMdB describes it as: Filmed over a period of five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on 70mm film, Samsara transports us to the varie...
Holy Motors
This is such an individual, unique film, it's difficult to know how to describe it. There isn't a story as such, but rather a series of 'appointments', mostly staged, featuring Denis Lavant in numerous guises, from beggar to motion capture artist,...