Movies
Skyfall review
12/11/12 22:17 Filed in: Website Updates
Daniel Craig is back as Bond and making quite the splash in the 23rd installment in the series of films. Read a review of Skyfall here...
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BitDepth#844 posted
23/07/12 21:52 Filed in: Website Updates
In BitDepth#844, musings about 007 and the masterful JB, composer John Barry are posted here...
BitDepth 837 posted
04/06/12 22:27 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth#837, a review of the third installment of the Men in Black franchise, is posted here...
BitDepth 802 posted
04/10/11 22:00 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth#802, a review of the new Transformers DVD/Blu-Ray release, offers an insight into what big-budget movies might well become.
BitDepth 778 posted
18/04/11 22:21 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth#778, a look at the deteriorating state of the alien invasion movie, is posted here...
2012 review
01/12/09 00:54 Filed in: Website Updates
My review of the film 2012 for the Trinidad Guardian is posted here...
BitDepth 694 posted
24/08/09 22:22 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth 694, a review of Neil Blomkamp's District 9 is posted here...
BitDepth 689 posted
20/07/09 22:22 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth 689, a conversation with Brett Lewis about a project he made to promote his way out of the economic downturn is posted here...
BitDepth 680 posted
18/05/09 21:06 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth 680 a look at the new Star Trek film, is posted here...
Who watched Watchmen?
27/03/09 23:28 Filed in: Movies
In less than a week, Watchmen slunk off the screens of moviehouses in Trinidad and Tobago. Some thoughts about why a dark brooding superhero film failed to find an audience here and elsewhere. Read More...
BitDepth 671 posted
16/03/09 22:20 Filed in: Website Updates
Kelly's surreal Tales
22/08/08 23:59 Filed in: Movies
Like Darko, there's an interesting science fiction underpinning to all the goings on, but it's almost irrelevant to the political intrigue of a US Government that has taken homeland security to its logical conclusion and the personal peccadillos of Dwayne Johnson's Boxer Santaros.
The star power that's brought to bear on this story is impressive, inclusive of Sarah Michelle Gellar, John Laroquette, Miranda Richardson, Justin Timberlake and Seann William Scott, but what's lacking is a sense of restraint and service to the story. Kelly's tale wanders off on odd little tangents that ultimately amount to very little and nudge the story forward imperceptibly.
It's not hard to see why the film failed so completely to find an audience. The comedy is so black as to stifle even the most hard earned laugh, the science fiction is almost marginal and the action is so brief that it could qualify as punctuation.
Add to this Mr Timberlake's surreal little song and dance number and you have a cinematic pelau so varied that it's sure to be inedible to all but the most refined of palates.
What Southland Tales is, though, is a very personal piece of work that feels a lot like the work of a post-Matrix Robert Altman-esque director, one whose passions are involving enough to draw intriguing performances from a strong cast but so undiluted that they alienate all but the most committed of audiences.
If you like your movies odd and quirky, then give Southland Tales a look.
BitDepth 636 posted
15/07/08 11:20 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth 636, a look a superhero deconstructions as offered by the new Will Smith movie Hancock is posted here...
BitDepth 631 posted
14/06/08 14:01 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth 631, a look at the magic of the double feature is posted here...
Cold Comfort
19/05/08 20:53 Filed in: Cable Guys
A slyph of a star
26/05/08 20:42 Filed in: Cable Guys
Contract Killers
21/04/08 23:48 Filed in: Movies
Might as well jump
26/02/08 11:09 Filed in: Cable Guys
Jumper is a bad movie. Bad, bad, bad.Movies made of vignettes
17/12/07 23:51 Filed in: Cable Guys
Films built out of little stories are starting to look a bit too similar. Read Keifel's entry here. Read More...
The Horror, The Horror
29/10/07 22:06 Filed in: Cable Guys
Willem Dafoe is Gene Hackman
14/10/07 21:28 Filed in: Cable Guys
