Gus Van Sant’s “death trilogy” started in 2002 with the unique and intimate film, Gerry, kicking off a run of small, super low budget and very internalized pieces of work, which also included 2003’s Elephant and Last Days in 2005 (while similar, 2007’s Paranoid Park isn’t considered part of this unofficial grouping). Certainly not for…
Spike Lee has always been a very politically and socially conscious filmmaker, with much of his work touching on topical elements that link us all together as human beings. This makes his straight-up genre picture, Inside Man, all the more atypical, as it’s one of the few gun-for-hire pictures that he’s put his name…
Vue has surveyed the nation to ask which iconic live action films Brits would like to see animated and has worked with an award winning illustrator to suggest what these famous live action movies might look like in the style of creative cartoons. Over the last 10 days fans have guessed each image and what…
Lately the experiences and events I’m being invited to never seem to be movie related but always have some movie motive or connection. This is one of those times. Floyd Mayweather has recently been working on a film with Jamie Foxx called All Star Weekend, so in a way, we’re on the right track. Floyd…
Totally buried by Paramount Vantage at the end of 2012, David Chase’s Not Fade Away is a funny and nostalgic time portal back to the 60’s, with a fantastic soundtrack, and a killer supporting performance from James Gandolfini. While the film possibly feels incomplete (I really would love to see a miniseries that picks…
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is not a good movie. It pains me to report this, as Ang Lee is a master storyteller and filmmaker, and I’ve been a fan of all of his films (yes, even Ride with the Devil, which is hugely underrated). However, nothing about this movie worked for me as a…
For the first time ever Back to the Movies was invited down to the London Olympia to attend the Walker Stalker convention, a very popular comic-con style set-up where many of AMC’s The Walking Dead cast members attend and meet the fans. We hopped on the train down to London, and just like at the…
It seems nearly insane that this film was nominated for Best Picture in 1993, not because it’s not fully awesome, but rather, this genre would NEVER be paid attention to by members of the Academy in our current cinematic climate. Harrison Ford delivered a quintessential movie star performance, eliciting sympathy right from the outset, and…
Shoot ‘Em Up is a wildly silly R-rated cartoon of a movie, tremendously fun and berserk and made with low-budget zeal and ingenuity. Playing like a Looney Tunes adventure on a few hits of PCP, this is pure comic-book-movie shenanigans, but instead of superheroes from another galaxy, the characters in this oddly eccentric actioner bounce…
If you love sports, chances are that sports movies make you more emotional than romantic films. Personally, each time I watch the highlights of the 6 NationsI can’t help myself from feeling a wave of varying emotions and nostalgia rushing up on me. If you are anything like that, you just can’t miss out on…
This review contains no spoilers only basic plot elements. Logan is without a doubt the best Marvel movie that Marvel didn’t technically make. There are so many things they got right about Logan that I just don’t know where to begin. Hugh Jackman really did the character Logan justice this time around. It’s by far…
James Bond is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time which started back in 1962 with Sean Connery in Dr No. It is also the longest continually-running film series in history. Since the first film, there has been another 23 films, and rumours have it that the 25th film is already in production…
Currently streaming on Netflix and available on disc via The Criterion Collection, a piece of work that has come into full view after more than one screening. Shot on location all over Europe at a variety of obscenely photogenic locations by cinematographer Yorick Le Saux on 35mm film(!), Olivier Assayas’ dreamy film, which he wrote…
It’s a hard quality to have as a director, to make your films feel crazy and antic and wild, but at the same time still pay attention to mise-en-scene, performance, and technique. Rush’s 1970 effort Getting Straight is a wild beast, an anti-establishment picture made as one turbulent decade was ending and another socially questionable…
Gore Verbinski’s sumptuously mounted horror-thriller A Cure for Wellness plays like a cross between Shutter Island and The Cell but not nearly as great as those two pieces of work, with various props borrowed from the bunker set on TV’s Lost (I don’t ever want to be reminded of that show again). As I expected,…
Six Rounds takes place in the aftermath of the 2011 riots, the movie focuses on Stally (Adam J. Bernard) a former boxer who has hung up his gloves as he is roped back into a life of crime to save a friend. Most of the film is shot in black and white and rather than…
