Film Reviews
Behind The Sun
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Tuesday 25 May, 2010
The success of Walter Salles’s 1998 classic Central Station symbolically marked the end of two decades of trauma for the Brazilian film industry. It was the harbinger of a new era of quality fil... Read More...Saboteur
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Tuesday 18 May, 2010
Stung by criticism that branded his defection to Hollywood just prior to the outbreak of World War II as unpatriotic, Hitchcock spent the early forties busying himself with a series of films that exam... Read More...Family Plot
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Wednesday 8 July, 2009
Following the success of The Birds in 1963, legendary director Alfred Hitchcock’s seemingly-evergreen career at the peak of Hollywood finally began its slow descent into the wilderness, after mo... Read More...Vacancy
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Friday 27 February, 2009
Vacancy has to be among the sleeper hits of 2007. On the surface, it’s another outing for the slightly oversubscribed drive-in/motel horror sub-genre, but adds a couple of new twists added to th... Read More...Godsend
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Tuesday 24 February, 2009
Godsend offers up a forgettable slice of psychological-thriller action which, despite fielding a decent cast that includes Robert De Niro and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, is cut-down by an overly far-fetche... Read More...Steven Spielberg's Duel
Written by Dan Moore in Film Reviews, Saturday 27 September, 2008
Where do I start with the excellent film that is Duel? Well it was perhaps unwise to start with my opinion of it; those of an impatient disposition might well be inclined to have already stopped readi... Read More...Sunshine
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Thursday 13 March, 2008
With Brit classic Trainspotting and box-office smash 28 Days Later already under his belt, director Danny Boyle turned his attentions to science-fiction in 2007. The result was Sunshine and, given his... Read More...Silent Hill
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Wednesday 19 December, 2007
History has taught us that a good game rarely makes for a good film adaptation. Tomb Raider and Streetfighter are primary examples of projects destined for failure purely because they had so little st... Read More...Appleseed
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Saturday 20 January, 2007
For reasons unknown to me, some of the biggest anime exports of the last few years have been those driven by a significant helping of computer-generated imagery (CGI). Given that anime is an art form ... Read More...Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex - 1st GIG, Volume 2
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Tuesday 15 August, 2006
The Ghost In The Shell franchise is an all-too-rare examples of anime that has been as successful outside of its native Japan as within. The reason? Well, much like Manga-stablemate Akira, the origina... Read More...Behind The Sun
The success of Walter Salles’s 1998 classic Central Station symbolically marked the end of two decades of trauma for the Brazilian film industry. It was the harbinger of a new era of quality fil...
Saboteur
Stung by criticism that branded his defection to Hollywood just prior to the outbreak of World War II as unpatriotic, Hitchcock spent the early forties busying himself with a series of films that exam...
Family Plot
Following the success of The Birds in 1963, legendary director Alfred Hitchcock’s seemingly-evergreen career at the peak of Hollywood finally began its slow descent into the wilderness, after mo...
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