Shoot the Glass

I love epics. Grand sweeping shots of beautiful landscape, stories spanning decades, characters larger than life. I rarely mind the runtime and I love just sitting down on a Sunday afternoon to watch a three- or four-hour movie. Lawrence of Arabia is among my favourite movies ever.
Australia though, was just a little too much. Baz [...]

The Brothers Bloom is Rian Johnson’s follow-up to 2005’s brilliant high school noir Brick. Personally, I couldn’t wait to see what Johnson would do next. What he has done is take on the conman subgenre, and weaved it into a rich and very entertaining romp about two brothers.
The movie is about Bloom (Adrien Brody) and [...]

Everyone knows Robin Hood. Even if you haven’t seen this version, chances are that you’ve at least seen the Kevin Costner movie from 1991 or the far superior animated Disney version from 1973.
I quite enjoyed this movie, even though it was the silliest thing I’ve seen in a long time. This is a very lighthearted [...]

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 [...]

As you may remember, I saw Lang’s M last year (read my review) and gave it a full five stars. This movie, which was made a few years prior to M, is almost as impressive.
The plot is simple. It’s set in a futuristic city which is divided between the working class and the city planners. [...]