review: Shame (2011)

Shame. In more ways than one. Man of the moment, Michael Fassbender, plays Brandon Sullivan, an Irish-American business suit type with an addiction to porn and sex with anonymous strangers. His life is going… relatively well really. His job hasn’t yet cottoned on to his problem – or at the least he must be making [...]

review: Antichrist (2009)

At this stage any film reviewer worth their salt has seen Lars von Trier‘s latest film, Antichrist. The controversy that ensued after its screening at Cannes meant that it was top of my list of “must see” arthouse films this year. I know this is a bit pretentious and all and maybe slightly disqualifies me [...]

review: I’m a Cyborg, But That’s Okay (2006)

Park Chan-wook could hardly be described as a household name in the western world however, his films probably are much more noted than those of some other Asian directors. Park Chan-wook is the director of The Vengence Trilogy which comprises of Sympathy for Mr. Vengence, Oldboy and Lady Vengence – and he really can do [...]

review: Control (2007)

Ian Curtis died on May 18th, 1980. He was 23 years old. Control is a biographical film based on the 1995 memoirs of Ian Curtis’s wife, Deborah Curtis, entitled Touching From A Distance. It is directed by acclaimed photographer and music video director Anton Corbijn. Shot in colour than transferred to black and white, Control [...]