| Home | My Account | Directories |
FILM: Margin Call (2011)
Published on 2012-02-22 04:43:00
The story: On the eve of the financial collapse, an analyst (Zachary Quinto) uncovers evidence that his firm may be on the verge of total financial collapse. Margin Call is unusual, in that you spend the whole movie waiting for something to happen - for the markets to crash. When handled wrongly this kind of tension can be excruciating but here it's exhilarating, especially once you see how the filmmaker handles an opening source of potential plot stress (whether someone will look at something i
FILM: Haywire (2011)
Published on 2012-02-21 12:50:00
The story: A top female agent-for-hire (Gina Carano) is betrayed, and must exact vengeance. But who betrayed her?Haywire is a very simple story, although the plot can seem ridiculously complicated. Essentially, this is an A-B-C story of betrayal and vengeance exacted, but the director (Steven Soderbergh) and the cast (Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender) give it a serious upgrade in both style and execution. At the centre of it is Gina Carano, a mixed martial art
FILM: Twentieth Century (1934)
Published on 2012-02-03 08:18:00
The story: A Broadway impresario (John Barrymore) makes a star out of a lingerie model (Carole Lombard), but their professional partnership is a rocky one.There's a saying about comedy - that you can have ordinary characters in ridiculous situations, or ridiculous characters in ordinary situations, but not both. Without some shred of reality, there's nothing for the audience to recognise and hold on to. This is why farce is an acquired taste, and it's a rule that Howard Hawks's film only briefly
