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Double Take – The Paranorman One
All our shows will be released on a Monday now, so don’t panic about getting two editions of the podcast in a week. We also open the show with promises of Hymns and Chumbawumba. Elsewhere its business...
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Argo
Based on a mission declassified by the US Government in 1997, Argo would question the credibility of disbelief if not for its roots. The film opens by presenting how Iran has going through an era of...
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Vulgaria
As a rule of thumb, comedy in Chinese and Hong Kong cinema tends to have a light touch. Instead of anything akin to the more raunchy Western stylings, Chinese territories typically favour slapstick...
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This is the End
Every so often, maybe once a decade, there is a collective of comedy actors who form a school of exceptional movie comedy. The 80s had the likes of John Candy, Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray,...
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Big Trouble in Little China
It’s a rare occurrence in the home release review trade when one ponders who a review is actually for. John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China is just such an occasion, in the UK it’s one of the...
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How to Use Guys with Secret Tips
For a good while now Third Window films have been preoccupied with their stellar Shinya Tsukamoto releases and the darker spectrum of Asian cinema. Their first release of 2014 sees them return to...
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Ace in the Hole
Films come and go regardless of their quality; the rare exceptions to this are films that capture the mood of the time without getting bogged down in the stylised machinations of culture or fashion....
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Behind the Camera
As long as cinema has stood tall as a medium of the people, films about cinema have been consistent as a means of self-analysis. Whether that is a biography, a fictionalised account of an on-set...
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