The Girl on the Train is the silliest movie I’ve seen all year. I also, in a very strange way, really enjoyed it. It was a campy, ridiculously overblown and often very pompous mess of a film, and for that, it is truly very enjoyable. To be honest, I really doubt any of us really…
Category: Crime
Wild at Heart (1990)
There aren’t any words in any language that can describe how much I love David Lynch. I quite simply adore him – I think he is perhaps the greatest living filmmaker, and one that I unflinchingly worship as a visionary. I cut my hair to look like his. I dress in the same way as…
Run Lola Run (1998)
I could mince words, give a long-winded and elaborate opening to make a very simple point, but I feel that would just a disservice, so I will come right out and say it – Run Lola Run (Lola rennt) is one of the best films I have ever seen, and while I don’t normally find…
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….
Bronson (2009)
The world is filled with bizarre characters, but I don’t think any of them are more bizarre than Charles Bronson, the man who has been dubbed “England’s most famous prisoner” – and when I say bizarre, I mean he is outright terrifying (and quite frankly, I am terrified to even be writing this review, because…
Mr. Holmes (2015)
There has never been a shortage of representations of Sherlock Holmes, arguably the most famous detective in the history of literature. From the classic Basil Rathbone films, to the glut of representations in the modern age, ranging from the excellent Sherlock, to the gloriously entertaining Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr, to the mediocre Elementary,…
Pacific Heights (1990)
I love a good thriller, and nothing is more entertaining than a fantastically trashy psychological thriller. One of the most delightfully campy thrillers I’ve seen recently is Pacific Heights, which is a bizarre film, because despite having one of the most brilliant filmmakers at the helm, and a very talented cast, it is a purely…
Hard Eight (1996)
There is not a shortage of times where I have expressed my absolutely admiration and adoration for Paul Thomas Anderson. I believe him to be possibly the greatest living filmmaker, and someone that matches the talents of all the greatest filmmakers in history. A cinematic chameleon, Anderson is able to twist and manipulate any genre…
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2015)
Something I love about foreign-language cinema (meaning films from countries other than the USA or United Kingdom) is the fact that it can be so brilliantly strange, bizarre and wonderful, and that it doesn’t need to stick to any conventions to be seen, which is something that keeps many original ideas from being made in…
Natural Born Killers (1994)
I was opposed to seeing this film for the longest time. As an enormous Quentin Tarantino fan, I have been reluctant to watch this film, because the idea that someone would take a script that the young, idealistic genius wrote and completely mangled it beyond recognition was a travesty, and Tarantino himself certainly agreed, because…
The Postmodern Pelican 