Trainspotting: Director’s Cut
February 19, 2003
When Trainspotting was released in 1996, it took the world by storm and caused a sensation not only in its homeland of England, but in the United States as well. Audiences couldn’t get enough of this gritty, funny tale of Scottish heroin addicts. The...
The Day of the Locust
February 11, 2003
Based on Nathanael West’s famous novel of the same name, The Day of the Locust (1975) is a scathing indictment of the Hollywood studio system. John Schlesinger’s film recalls a bygone era when the Hollywood sign still read Hollywoodland and people...
The Missing
February 2, 2003
When Cate Blanchett’s daughter is kidnapped she must team up with estranged father Tommy Lee Jones in this slow-burning Western. Ron Howard is as close to Hollywood royalty as you can get. Both his parents were actors, he starred in iconic 50’s...
Shade
February 1, 2003
Shade (2003) is the latest in a long tradition of grifter movies, from the likes of The Hustler (1961) and House of Games (1987). They often feature elaborate confidence games most commonly involving card games like poker or other games of chance like...
Bad Education
January 18, 2003
The film within a film scenario is given the colourful Almodovar treatment in this stylish, autobiographical noir masterwork. Moving and laced with delicious black humor this has given the great Spanish director his biggest every domestic box office opening...
Roman Holiday Collectors Edition
January 15, 2003
The 1953 romantic classic, Roman Holiday, receives a dust off as it is released in Paramount’s ‘special collector’s edition’ series. The restoration process has really elevated this re-release, it looks great. There have been a...
In America
January 13, 2003
Jim Sheridan has a reputation for making intense, character-driven dramas like In the Name of the Father (1993) and The Boxer (1997). His films also contain strong social and political messages (most notably the Irish struggle for independence from England)...
Under the Tuscan Sun
December 16, 2002
From her screenplay for The Truth About Cats and Dogs (1996) to her directorial debut with Guinevere (1999), Audrey Wells has created films with strong female protagonists. She continues this thematic preoccupation with Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) with...
Out for a Kill
December 14, 2002
Now I enjoy bad movies, I’m a veritable connoisseur of them. Which is why I have all of Steven Seagal’s films either on video, DVD or Laserdisc – many of them all three formats! Even I though, have to admit that lately Seagal’s...
Salvatore Giuliano
December 9, 2002
Famous outlaw Salvatore Giuliano was found dead in a courtyard in Montelepre, Italy in July 1950. He was mysteriously shot and killed, the details of which are embroiled in controversy. Francesco Rosi’s film flashes back to the early 1940s to show Italy’s...
