Oh lord, The Counsellor is an awful film. Cormac McCarthy wrote it, for God’s sake, and he’s one of my favourite authors ever ever ever. (If you haven’t read his Blood Meridian….well, you should is all I’m saying.) But his own script here – about a sleazy lawyer who gets in over his head when…
Read morePrometheus Teaser (Again)
Another frakkin’ brilliant teaser vid for the Alien prequel Prometheus – Michael Fassbender as an empathetic robot. Eek.
Read morePrometheus
I’m already pegging this for my Top Ten of 2012
Read moreRobin Hood
Robin Hood was by far and away my favourite childhood hero: the gang of mates hanging out in the woods far away from adult supervision, singing lewd ballads, cooking bangers over an open fire, the being super cool with the bows and arrows business, and making a living beating the crap out of the King’s…
Read moreLife in a Day
“Life in a Day” is the Ridley Scott-produced, Kevin MacDonald-directed doccie that’s shooting TODAY – 24th July 2010 – on location near you (and you, and you, and you…) I’m thinking The Qatsi trilogy meets A Day in the Life of…. series of coffee table books, only messier and more inspired. As the blurb says:…
Read moreHannibal
There was so much hype and so many expectations raised before the launch of Ridley Scott’s Hannibal movie back in 2001, that at the time, it probably couldn’t have failed to disappoint. I don’t remember enjoying it greatly back then, but I watched it again last night, and I have to say, I got much more out…
Read more