Showing posts with label film reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film reviews. Show all posts

Thursday, 28 April 2011

Jennifer Lynch gets Daddy's penchant for a twisty, macabre story

Daniel Stephens reviews Jennifer Lynch's film Surveillance. This excellent film shows signs of her father's penchant for obscure narrative as well as instilling some invention of her own. Click here or the picture above to read the review.

Sunday, 3 October 2010

Angelina Jolie has a mighty heart...


Daniel Stephens reviews Michael Winterbottom's intelligent adaptation of Mariane Pearl's book in A Mighty Heart.

Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Spielberg's 1941 - load of crap or underappreciated gem?

In the late Seventies, Steven Spielberg was the working definition of the term boy-wonder. He already had two films under his belt that could be argued as the most important films ever: one made you never want to go into the ocean again and the other made you keep your eyes on the night skies.

So there he was pondering his next step as a film-maker; what would his next film be about?

Interesting story: while making Close Encounters of the Third Kind, fellow director Francois Truffaut spoke with him about how well Spielberg worked with kids, commenting that his next film should feature kids as a focal point. Spielberg’s response was that he was planning on doing a comedy about World War II with lots of pratfalls and explosions. Truffaut’s response: “You are the child.” I’m sure he meant it as a compliment.

But that brings us to 1941, the last Spielberg movie of the Seventies and also the most notorious film Spielberg would ever make – not only because of its huge budget and small returns, but also because of its main star.

And no, I don’t mean Treat Williams. [read more]

Friday, 3 September 2010

New reviews up...

Top10Films has posted reviews of Little Miss Sunshine, Hamlet 2, and Joon-ho Bong's unique psychological thriller Mother.