Shoot the Glass

Casino is another mafia movie from Martin Scorsese, and I thought it was inferior to Goodfellas in every possible way. Maybe I’ve just seen too many similar (and better) movies, but I was just not impressed with this at all.
We get to follow Ace (Robert De Niro) and Nicky (Joe Pesci), two childhood friends who [...]

Paris, France. The suburbs. A young man called Abdel is the victim of police brutality, and is hospitalised. Riots. Vinz (Vincent Cassel) finds a gun lost by a policeman during the riots, and wants to fight back. He vows to kill a police if Abdel dies in the hospital, as retaliation for the police brutality.
The [...]

Princess Mononoke is my sixth Miyazaki movie (after, in order of me seeing them, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Kiki’s Delivery Service, The Castle of Cagliostro, and My Neighbour Totoro), and I’m very sorry to say it’s probably my least favourite. I have been enchanted with all his movies so far, so maybe it’s fair [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]