It takes a lot to make a truly terrifying film, and in this day and age, where horror is starting to run out of ideas (or rather, choosing to only focus on cheap thrills and jump scares), the possession or haunted house storyline is getting a bit too cliched and obvious – and with the…
Author: The Postmodern Pelican
Eye in the Sky (2016)
The war film has evolved so much during the course of cinema and has existed right from the beginning of cinema’s inception. The cost of war has been explored almost much as the number of wars fought – ancient wars, The War of the Roses, the War of Independence, The Civil War, World War I,…
Serial (Bad) Weddings (2014)
I consider myself a bit of a student of comedy, mainly because it is a genre of entertainment that has many forms, and some truly innovative things have been created in the name of comedy. However, I sometimes grow weary of the mainstream Hollywood comedy, and while many of them are great, I sometimes just…
Man Bites Dog (1992)
I am someone who adores dark comedy, and I can pretty much stomach nearly anything, as long as it is obviously not real or questionably fictional (looking at you, Cannibal Holocaust) – but even I found it incredibly difficult to watch Man Bites Dog (C’est arrivé près de chez vous), and I will be the…
Finding Dory (2016)
The vast majority of Pixar’s films hold very special significance to many people, myself included. While they have one or two failures or films that aren’t as great as their other films, most of their films are innovative, iconic and brilliant. Finding Nemo has perhaps the most important relevance to me, as it is one…
The BFG (2016)
I will be the first to admit that I don’t trust anyone that says they don’t like Roald Dahl. The man is perhaps the greatest storyteller of all time, and his books shaped the childhoods of millions of people worldwide, yours truly included. Dahl was an absolute master at writing stories that would live on…
Keanu (2016)
I’ve had a motto all my life – a film is made exponentially better by the presence of a cat or a dog in the film. I’ve seen some animals give better performances than their human co-stars. Now imagine my delight when I discovered the existence of Keanu, a film that is centered around a…
The Nice Guys (2016)
There are many people that feel that they are born into the wrong generation – and I count myself as someone who often feels misplaced within the 21st century. I often imagine myself enjoying the idiosyncratic nature of previous decades, and one that I have always felt I have a connection to is the 1970s….
Le Havre (2011)
The most difficult part of my European cinema project has not been actually tracking down some of these films, but rather choosing which films to actually watch. Some countries have such diverse and interesting cinematic histories, and to just choose one film to represent that country is entirely impossible (which is why I am not…
Eddie the Eagle (2016)
To be perfectly clear, I am not a fan of sports movies at all. I find them often boring, clichéd and utterly dull. However, there have been a few sports-themed films that have actually been absolutely brilliant and proven to be thoroughly entertaining, from beginning to end. The rare sports film that is actually brilliant…
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