What To Watch: 25th Hour (2002)

The spectre of the fallen Twin Towers is a ubiquitous presence throughout Spike Lee’s poignant and powerful drama, 25th Hour. Indeed, we’re introduced to New York City at night, a wide shot showcasing the illuminated skyline, the Tribute in Light piercing the dark like Excalibur held aloft; a fixed, ethereal moment of defiance.

Adapted from his own novel by David Benioff, it was conceived prior to the 2001 terrorist attacks. However, Lee, preparing the film that year, made the wise decision to subtly integrate the destruction of that day into this absorbing story about one man’s final hours before a seven-year stretch in prison.

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What To Watch: Clash Of The Titans (1981)

 

Much of the real cruelty in Clash of the Titans is, like the giant Kraken, concealed from plain sight. It lies behind a veneer made up of fantastical beasts, heroic adventure, and dark magic; visceral stimuli that impress the impressionable. It’s why the film remains such an exciting spectacle for young and old; a truly frightening piece of fantasy on one hand and a camp, cartoonish display of special-effects on the other. [Read full article at Top 10 Films]

What To Watch: The Conspiracy (2012)

Christopher MacBride won’t have had any clue how prescient his 2012 film The Conspiracy would become. It arrived before the presidency of Donald Trump, and the POTUS’s relentless attack on mainstream media, by design diverting attention to fringe political commentators and sociopaths pushing nefarious theories. And it arrived well in advance of a post-COVID-19 world riddled be fear, mistrust and uncertainty. Where conspiracies peddled by Trump acolytes have displaced so-called “fake news” with an insidious credibility fuelled by social media memes.

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What To Watch: Romper Stomper (1992)

Romper Stomper is an aesthetic tour de force. Fronted by a shaven-headed Russell Crowe prior to the Gladiator superstardom, his white supremacist is a disenfranchised Melbournian sweating rage from every pore. It’s admirable that Crowe’s glassy-eyed fury could be a moment away from tears as he teeters on an edge between frenzied animosity and a deep-rooted sadness. It’s a mark of the New Zealand born actor’s talent, revealing a subtle intimacy in a character that is otherwise underwritten.

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What is Stanley Kubrick's best film..?

Neal Damiano tells Top 10 Films about his favourite Stanley Kubrick movies... What are your favourites?

William Friedkin's "lost" masterpiece Sorcerer finally gets its chance to shine

Have you ever heard of Sorcerer, a movie by The French Connection and The Exorcist director William Friedkin?
Now you'll get a chance to see it as the film is released on region FREE blu-ray. Find out more about Sorcerer here.
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RoboCop 2014 is not one of the better reboots

What did you think of the new RoboCop remake?

RoboCop fails to live up to the qualities of the original film says Top 10 Films critic Daniel Stephens - read the full review here.

Does the Jose Padilha's RoboCop remake work with its watered down, videogame violence? Is this sort of violence actually worse than Paul Verhoeven's graphically bloody original because of how desensitized we become to it...?

On remakes and reboots: Ultimately, the American film industry is playing it as safe as possible in an economic climate of uncertainty and under the strain of a market coming to terms with quickly developing technology. Unlike the era of Jaws and Star Wars where the public had to get in a car and travel to a theatre to see a movie, today we are as likely to watch the latest release digitally streamed onto the three-inch screen of a mobile phone, watching our selected feature in bite-size chunks while riding on the train. [Read more]

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