Film Reviews
Tinker Tailor Soldier Snore
I have been sitting on this review for a while. Or rather, it’s been roiling around in my head from the moment I left the theatre in which I saw Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy almost a month ago. But I’ve held off on writing it, let alone posting it, because while sometimes it can be [...]
The Adventures of Tintin – Great Snakes!
So, I have to confess…that I’ve never read The Adventures of Tintin. It somehow completely passed me by during my childhood, and I never knew anything more about it than that there is a guy named Tintin, he has a dog named Snowy, and there is a sea captain? And that was fine by me, [...]
Melancholia – not just a feeling, but a place.
“It began with…a music video?” is how Chantelle described Melancholia today. That certainly seems apt: you are presented with scenes, vignettes, each filmed at an intense 1000+ frames per second that make every detail of every scene burn itself into your retina and your consciousness. And over it all one mournful Wagner tune plays, slowing [...]
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