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So much has been written about Orson Welles in the last twenty years that it almost feels as though he were a character created by Scott Fitzgerald, a wonderful idea of something worth aspiring to in an attempt to explain a lost moment of time when the United States still felt new. [...]

It’s grim up North.
This, in a nutshell, is the philosophy of novelist David Peace, a native of Yorkshire in England, whose series of books about crime and corruption are the base for this excellent trilogy, originally broadcast on the BBC. Peace is a progenitor of pulp, and obvious student of American [...]

Goodness, the British certainly do hate Tony Blair…
But, I’m getting ahead of myself.
There have been any number of political thrillers released in the last few years, the culmination of the ‘lost years’ of America, where the Bush administration, and its allies in England, have come in for a right kicking over [...]

As the American film industry drifts further into a sort of retarded infantilism–week after week of superheroes, television show remakes, stunted 80’s nostalgia for things that weren’t any good in the first place–it‘s important to remember that, on the fringes, there is still a filmmaker or two out there who is [...]

Cinematic War fatigue, a syndrome afflicting most Americans over the last six years that involves the understandable symptoms of choosing escapism as entertainment over ‘realism’, has claimed many victims at the box office. Many of these films weren’t necessarily worthy of much attention, anyway, either due to their ideological stridency [...]

Oftentimes, when a successful book is transferred to the big screen, the complaint is that the essence of the source material has been lost in translation due to any number of factors, legitimate or not. It’s not unreasonable; so many novels are unwieldy, overstuffed with minor characters and illogical narratives, [...]

As the 1960’s fade further from view, and the images of an unquestionably important decade in world history are sanitized to the point of parody, it’s imperative to remember that not everyone can look back with the benefit of rose-colored glasses. With the hippie wigs in mothballs, the music re-packaged again [...]

(Warning: Sports-related terminology, of both a British and American variety, is contained in the following review, including the usage of the term ‘football’ for ’soccer‘, references to 1970’s baseball managers, and the like. To find out whether the film is ’shot well’, is ‘well lit’, or is ‘an adrenaline-fuelled thrill ride‘, please consult the footnotes [...]

While it may well be true that in space, no one can hear you scream, the question remains: can they hear you talking to yourself? The isolation of space has long been a thematic construct in the best science fiction. Moon, which stars the gifted actor Sam Rockwell in a virtual one-man show as the [...]

Obsession is a common theme in cinema. Whether it’s obsession with a woman, a treasure or a white whale, man’s innate desire to gain control over something greater than himself has led to some of the finest storytelling in film history. Director/writer Robert Siegel’s first script, for The Wrestler, detailed with a keen, if sentimental, [...]