review: The Spirit (2008)
I’d never really heard of The Spirit (the film or the comics) until I started seeing the tv ads about a week before it came out… I like the visual style and I’m interested in films of comic book stories but mostly what swung it was that it had Samuel L. Jackson in it. I’ll [...]
review: Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
Don’t know where I’d heard of this film… I think it was probably when I was browsing through Leslie Bibb‘s filmography while doing the Iron Man review… Anyway wherever I heard of it, I thought it sounded interesting but I put it down as a film I’d never see – didn’t seem like the type [...]
review: Chasing Amy (1997)
There are some directors that I’m really into, like Michel Gondry, Wes Anderson and Tim Burton… however there are far more directors that I really have no particular thoughts on either way, I’ve seen a good few of their films but I’m still ambivalent. Paul Thomas Anderson is one – which I noted in the [...]
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: In Bruges (2008)
Ireland doesn’t tend to feature much at the Academy Awards… Ok, this year wasn’t too bad with Daniel Day-Lewis winning and Saoirse Ronan nominated, however, generally, it’s more of an observers night for Irish fans. Except in 2004 when Martin McDonagh won the Oscar for Best Short Film for a quiet little film called Six [...]
review: Cloverfield (2008)
From the team that brought you Felicity, Cloverfield is a heart-warming tale of a man searching for a love that he had tried to deny. Kind of. Mostly it’s about a monster attacking Manhattan. Cloverfield is really the first big “event” film of 2008. The buzz around the trailer when it was first shown before [...]
