Mock yourself : JCVD is real cinema

Jean-Claude Van Damme is a guilty pleasure of those of us who grew up thinking that Terminator 2 was more violence than one could possibly handle.

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But the man has gone from weakness to weakness. Until now, with a new project called JCVD, which in a turn as surreal as Brett […]

Sweeney Todd : Dark Night of the Soul

Last night I went to watch Sweeney Todd with my brother and my sister, for her birthday. Thinking what woman could resist a Johnny Depp movie I ended up feeling pretty guilty as she looked away for large swathes of the movie.
That said, if you can get past the classic Burtonesque macarbe setting, the movie […]

Cloverfield and the YouTube Generation

Just come home from the cinema, and enjoyed a really surprising film from Hollywood in the cinema verite style: Cloverfield. 
The acting is poor, but pretty unnecessary considering. It is an amazing experiment in presenting a film in a way not dissimilar to the way we now experience news through YouTube, CNN’s iReport et al. […]