The L Word: Season 2
February 5, 2006
The L Word is a fascinating drama about a group of lesbians living in Los Angeles. Airing on Showtime frees the program from the restraints of network TV and allows it to explore issues of sexuality in a more frank and open way. Thanks to the success...
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
February 5, 2006
Ya-Ya! Oh, wait. Wrong movie. It’s true, the comparisons between The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) and The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) are unavoidable. Think of the former as a teen version of the latter. Both examine the...
American Pie: Band Camp
February 5, 2006
This one time, at band camp, they got this horse, and flogged it, and kept on flogging it, and then it died, and they kept on flogging it, then they had this idea, and made another American Pie film. The three American Pie films managed to complete themselves...
Career Girls
February 4, 2006
One of the hallmarks of Mike Leigh’s cinema is that he has always been an astute observer of human behaviour and relationships that borders on cinema verite. He’s a fantastic observer of life, the way people talk, act and interact with one another...
Rumble Fish: Special Edition
February 4, 2006
History remembers Francis Ford Coppola’s, Rumble Fish (1983) as a film that was booed by its audience when it debuted at the New York Film Festival and in turn was viciously crucified by North American critics upon general release. It’s too...
Alone in the Dark
February 4, 2006
Christian Slater stars as a mysterious agent on the trail of ancient demons in this latest video game adaptation. We tend to criticise movies these days for being vacuous, poorly written fluff, but there’s a new director on the block that makes...
No Direction Home Bob Dylan
February 4, 2006
So much has been written about Bob Dylan. His career has been well-documented, including some truly excellent documentaries, most notably Don’t Look Back (1967) by D.A. Pennebaker. So what is there left to say? Apparently, Martin Scorsese thought otherwise...
Batman Begins
February 4, 2006
The fact that it took eight years for a new Batman film to be released illustrates how freaked out the studio was over the commercial and critical failure of Batman and Robin (1997). Warner Brothers gave the franchise a much needed rest while they quietly...
The Back to the Future Trilogy
February 4, 2006
Great Scot! Marty and the Doc are back again for a seriously heavy new Back to the Future boxset. There are few films we can call untouchable classics, but Back to the Future parts one, two and three are about as close as you could get to a perfect trilogy...
The Warriors: Ultimate Director’s Cut
February 4, 2006
Attention all you Boppers out there. Word on the street is that there’s a new edition of The Warriors on DVD. Can you dig it? When The Warriors came out in 1979 it was a modestly budgeted movie made by an up-and-coming director named Walter Hill and...
