For a community that thrives on the adoration of abstract images and the odd stories they tend to tell, the cinephile community is filled with hypocrites, especially from those that normally take a more elitist point of view. One can’t go a day without hearing someone lament about how the modern film industry is over-run…

Well, where do we begin? As shameful as it is to say, I don’t think I’ve got the words that can appropriately describe Mandy, the latest film from the obscurely brilliant Panos Cosmatos. I wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into, but considering the director’s previous work, Beyond the Black Rainbow was a work…

A decade ago, a film called Speed Racer was released. I was still a cinematic neophyte, and thus I took the thoughts of the critics as being the gospel truth and considering this film received an almost overwhelmingly negative response, I opted to skip it and go for something a bit more acclaimed. Now, having…

There are few directors working today that excite me as much as Edgar Wright. His three comedies Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End are absolutely brilliant pieces of cinema and some of the best comedy films of the 21st century. Naturally, being a fan of his, I would be excited about…

There is an abundance of trash that comes out year after year – terrible films with poor stories and questionable choices. What has been dubbed as “B-movies” occupy a very odd but solid place in cinema. Whereas B-movies started out as being earnestly-made films that failed to be of quality, they have evolved into films…

The year was 2004. The event was the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, and the man was Quentin Tarantino, who was serving as President of the Cannes Film Festival jury. Tarantino is a personal hero of mine (as if you couldn’t surmise that already), and he decided to give the Grand Prix to Oldboy, an ultra-violent…

Hollywood has developed quite an annoying habit in the last few years – playing off the fact that we all love nostalgia. There are countless reboots, sequels and comebacks, and very rarely are they very successful, and sometimes they can be outright painful. Obviously some of them aren’t all bad, but the concepts “nostalgia” and…