Film & TV

1. Trailer for Leon Ford's Griff the Invisible

   2 July, 2011:

   With Defendor, Kick-Ass and Super the fake superhero genre may already be saturated, but Griff the Invisible, starring True Blood‘s Ryan Kwanten, looks like it has some charm.

2. Review of X-Men: First Class

   5 June, 2011:

   Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class is a welcome return to form for the X-Men franchise after the risible X-Men: Last Stand and the sloppy Wolverine origins story. The ’60s setting allows for a lighter tone than previous instalments but Michael Fassbender’s intensity as Erik Lehnsherr takes the film to some dark places.

3. Trailer for The Artist

   28 May, 2011:

   I love the look of this: a brand new black and white, French, silent film filmed in EYE-POPPING 2D! Both Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo were in the excellent spy spoof OSS-117: Cairo, Nest of Spies which Michel Hazanavicius directed, so this has a lot of potential.

4. Review of Little White Lies

   3 May, 2011:

   A follow-up to the well-received thriller Tell No One, Little White Lies is unfortunately smug, tedious drivel that overstays its welcome for at least an hour. This review contains spoilers, but if you haven’t seen it then that’s ok because it means you’ll be able to leave the cinema after only 90 minutes instead of the full, gruelling 150.

5. Trailer for Elijah Wood TV show Wilfred

   26 April, 2011:

   This had me giggling like a loon, and I don’t do that lightly.

6. Trailer for Nick Tomnay's The Perfect Host

   24 April, 2011:

   This film looks like it exists purely so that David Hyde Pierce can have fun. Also impossible to watch the trailer without thinking it’s Ray Liotta as the criminal.

7. Trailer for Mitch Glazer's Passion Play

   24 April, 2011:

   Some nice looking film noir here, and I don’t think Bill Murray has ever looked cooler.

8. Duncan Jones' Source Code

   24 April, 2011:

   In Duncan Jones’ Source Code, Air force pilot Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) has to work out who bombed a train but only has the same eight-minute period to live through each time, a bit like Murder on the Orient Express if Poirot was knifed in the chest at the end of every chapter.

9. Trailer for Duncan Jones' Source Code

   23 April, 2011:

   I really miss Quantum Leap

10. Trailer for Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty

    16 April, 2011:

    It’s about prostitution but it’s mysterious and beautiful so it’s art so that’s ok.

11. Trailer for Matthew Schilling's Avarice

    16 April, 2011:

    Looks like No Country for Old Men except instead of a case full of money it’s a box full of science fiction.

12. Trailer for Lars Von Trier's Melancholia

    8 April, 2011:

    A stray planet threatens to disrupt Kirsten Dunst’s wedding or something. Looks bleak.

13. Black Swan fails to impress

    7 February, 2011:

    Black Swan, its cast and crew apparently scheduled to be showered with Academy Awards and such, is the second Aronofsky film — the first being The Wrestler — that’s left me wondering what everyone else is seeing that I’m not.

14. Trailer for Spartacus: Gods of the Arena

    8 January, 2011:

    The prequel series to Spartacus: Blood and Sand starts on January 12th. I’m looking forward to this — Blood and Sand turned out to be gratuitously enjoyable.

15. 

    The Walking Dead

    31 December, 2010:

    A typical episode of The Walking Dead is pretty much how I’d imagine a real zombie apocalypse would be; incredibly boring for about 90% of the time, teeth-grabbingly exciting for the remaining ten.

16. 

    Review of The Secret of Kells

    23 December, 2010:

    Remember when you were off sick from school, and because it wasn’t during an official school holiday, the only thing on TV was day time television and S4C? If you were lucky, Channel 4 would be showing some animated films from eastern Europe or somewhere; they smelt vaguely of education but at least they weren’t Pebble Mill. Later in life, you would discover that you’d seen Jan Švankmajer’s Alice and would feel quietly smug. The Secret of Kells is one of those films.

17. Babylon 5: A retrospective

    16 December, 2010:

    By and large, Babylon 5, the SF show created by J. Michael Straczynski during the late ’90s, is almost indefensibly poor. I say this as a fan; of the main series, at least a third of it is borderline unwatchable. Of the spin-offs and made-for-TV films, I have nothing good to say.

18. Trailer for Battle: Los Angeles

    7 December, 2010:

    Alien invasion in Los Angeles. Looks nice and explodey.

19. Trailer for The Secret of Kells

    29 November, 2010:

    Loving the art style for The Secret of Kells, an Irish-French-Belgian
    production based on an illuminated manuscript from around the year 800.

20. Trailer for Winnie the Pooh

    28 November, 2010:

    I don’t care if this is a children’s film, Eeyore cracks me the fuck up.

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