Shoot the Glass

This has long been one of the nagging black holes in my Rickman education. It was never commercially released on DVD, which annoyed many Alan Rickman fans. After a petition online, Mike Binder and his brother Jack (acting as producer) decided to release it for themselves, and it can now finally be purchased from their [...]

After having lived in Ireland for a number of years, I was not completely unfamiliar with the history of the Irish Civil War, and the years leading up to it. I knew about Michael Collins, about Eamon de Valera, and had a fair grasp of what happened.
I am always a bit apprehensive when viewing a [...]

Tom Tykwer has made some interesting movies in the past (that I’ve liked), like Run Lola Run and Heaven. I respect him as a filmmaker, and was quite looking forward to this, his latest. And of course, it has Alan Rickman, so it was practically required viewing for me.
Perfume tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, [...]

The plot description for this movie really couldn’t have appealed to me more. Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant in a Mike Newell movie about life in a theatre in the 40s. Sounds like right up my alley.
So what went wrong? I don’t really know, but somehow it didn’t completely gel, and it turned out to [...]

Franz Anton Mesmer was an intriguing man, who lived in 18th century Vienna. He believed that everything in the world was in balance, except man. He performed unusual studies on ill people, believing he could heal them, and in the process discovered something he called “animal magnetism“.
The plot itself is an interesting one, and its [...]