Excision is one of the most bizarre, grotesque and gory films I have ever seen…and I loved it. I am not someone who particularly likes gory body horror films, but Excision was a wonderfully strange film that is a brilliant combination of gruesome horror and teen comedy, and achieves all it tries to attempt without…
An Appreciation of…Jack Lemmon (1925 – 2001)
The concept of the greatest actor of all time is a complex one. Choosing the greatest actress of all time is very easy – not many will stray from Katharine Hepburn or Bette Davis. But the greatest actor of all time is a whole different process. One needs to consider the traits that made so…
The End of the Tour (2015)
My love of books predates my love of cinema, and something I have noticed is the almost complete lack of films about writers. We have so many biopics of musicians, athletes and performers, but very rarely films about authors, which is a shame because, in some ways, they are some of the most interesting people…
Youth (2015)
About a year ago (I actually remember the date, 11 August 2014 – a tragic day in cinema), I saw a film called This Must Be the Place. It was a dark comedy about a rock star confronting his past and going to try and avenge the death of his father, and of course it…
The Big Kahuna (1999)
Being a film lover means a lot more than just seeing all the cinematic greats that have defined cinema, it also means finding those obscure little gems of films that no one else seems to consider important or notable. It has always been a pleasure of mine to find films that are obscure and little-seen,…
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
War films have the ability to be either an absolute chore to get through, or to be moving and emotional adventures into times of extreme suffering. War films, in my humble opinion, are best when they are unflinching in regards to their subject matter. What is the use of telling the audience a story about…
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
I am not the biggest fan of young adult films. They are either too self-conscious and unrelenting in their attempts to be smart, they come off as arrogant, or they are just too intelligent for their own good, or they are just unbearably cliched. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is different to a…
The Intern (2015)
I don’t need to gush about Robert De Niro, do I? At this point, if it isn’t clear that he is one of the greatest actors of all time, and the best actor of his generation, and that he has given dozens of iconic film performances and contributed to acting what Picasso did to painting,…
Black Mass (2015)
Having a perfect career in Hollywood is definitely hard, especially when you’re an adored leading man. All leading men have had their failures, but the best of them quickly pick themselves up and move along and improve the next time. Johnny Depp has been a popular actor for over two decades now, and it so…
Suburban Gothic (2014)
I love horror, but I adore silly horror. Unfortunately, a lot of the more brilliant horror comedies flow under the radar, and remain obscure for far too long. Suburban Gothic was a fantastic discovery, and while it is in absolutely no way a brilliant film, as it is very flawed, it is a fantastic piece…
The Postmodern Pelican 