20 Feet from Stardom | Review

There are many, many documentaries worth watching, thousands in fact, dating all the way back to the end of the 19th century when the Lumiere Brothers, Auguste and Louis, decided to point their cameras at the normal, press record and see…

The Influence of H.R. Giger

“I do not know anybody else who has so accurately portrayed the soul of modern humanity. A few decades from now when they talk about twentieth century, they will think of Giger.” – Oliver Stone, 2001 H.R. Giger was regarded as the foremost…

Snowpiercer – review

It’s the future, and the earth is a cold dead place.  After a global warming reversal experiment goes wrong all life on earth is frozen and has been for seventeen years, with the exception of those who live aboard a train, the titular…

All Is Lost – Movie Review

Silence.  Sweet, glorious silence.  That’s the defining feature of this sea-faring, survivor drama which pits Robert Redford (known in the film as “Our Man”) against Mother Nature’s brutal, endless ocean.  Silence truly is golden in J.C.…

The Wolf of Wall Street Review

Martin Scorsese’s latest, The Wolf of Wall Street, explores the world of excess and overindulgence enjoyed by stock broker/swindler Jordan Belfort (DiCaprio) in America during the 1990s.  Belfort shamelessly pushed worthless stock at…

American Hustle – Movie Review

American Hustle is set in the shady but flamboyantly dressed world of 1970s con artists, Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) and Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams), as they are drawn further and further out of their comfort zone by over ambitious and…