Equilibrium

In the near future after WWIII, the powers that be decide the only way the human race can survive is by the curbing of all emotions thus quelling man’s violent warmongering. To this end all citizens are on a mandatory self administered drug intake,... 

True Romance

In the early nineties director Tony Scott was given two scripts to read by a young new screenwriter, one of them was True Romance and according to Scott it was “one of the fullest and most accomplished scripts that I’d ever read”. Jump... 

Daredevil

The superhero genre is one that is ideally suited for the transition to the big screen, full of larger than life colourful characters with classic good versus evil struggles. Recently there has been a renaissance in these films & the latest hero to... 

City of God

Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it was being chased by a horde of young Brazilian gangsters as shown in the opening scene of the excellent City Of God. Set in the mean streets of a Brazilian slum this superb movie is a stunning, intense, gripping,... 

Django/Django Strikes Again

Say the words Spaghetti Western & what springs to mind? Maybe the image of Clint Eastwood in a dusty poncho, a cigar butt wedged between his teeth glaring into the noon day sun fingers hovering at his pistol trigger in anticipation of the final showdown,...