I knew this film was going to be popular among the general public, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work that out. But the universal love it has received from the film community has really stunned me, I thought that there would be some more prominent naysayers, but it looks like I’m going to be on a small island for disliking this film.
My main issue with the film is what I thought would be the divisive topic, and…
Oliver Stone has never been one to make politically neutral films, for better or worse, the vast majority of his filmography wear their politics on their sleeve. So one would expect that an Oliver Stone directed story about the events of 9/11 would be just as politically charged as his previous films, however in the case of World Trade Centre, Stone appears to have decided to mostly keep his politics out of the film and tell a straightforward story about…
This is without doubt one of the most disturbing films I've seen in a while. And I mean that in a good way.
I had heard that the book was considered unfilmable due to it being an unreliable narrator. I may not have read the book but this is one hell of a film. I had never heard of Lynne Ramsay before but I will be sure to check her out. She has created a claustrophobic film that makes the…
"You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant... oh, fuck it." Never has a quote been more accurate of life itself. This film was my first Wes Anderson film (I first saw it over a year ago). It blew me away with how strange it was. I hadn't seen anything like it before, the strange characters, the…
