Sunday, February 5, 2012

review: The Damned United (2009)

April 6, 2009 by  
Filed under 8/10, biopic, cinema reviews, drama, Reviews

Ok… So I actually wrote most of this review last week but somehow it’s all been deleted, very upsetting. Oh well, better just get on with it. I like watching football, but I don’t know all that much about some of the history of it. All I knew about Brian Clough was that he once [...]

review: Control (2007)

February 17, 2008 by  
Filed under 7/10, arthouse, drama, DVD reviews, Reviews

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 [...]