Shoot the Glass

Oliver Stone has always been hit-and-miss with me. Sometimes he’s brilliant (JFK, Platoon), but sometimes he gives us the worst movie of the year (Alexander). Regardless of the end result though, he always seems to put his heart and soul into any project.
This hit-and-miss aspect of Stone’s career is distilled into W., the movie about [...]

Der Untergang tells the story of Adolf Hitler and his closest confidants in the final days before the fall of the Nazi regime. We see him in his bunker, as he slowly loses control of the war, but also of his mind and body.
It’s an altogether terrifying movie. However, unfortunately, it’s not precisely news to [...]

I’m sure you know about The Elephant Man already. This movie is based on the true story of Joseph “John” Merrick (John Hurt), a man who lived in 19th-century England. Merrick was severly disfigured through a congenital disease (which exact disease, we still do not know till this day) and spent most of his life [...]

I love epic movies. Movies that span large amounts of time and space, and create a scene so beautiful we can’t help but get swept up in it. David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia is one such movie. Sir Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi is another.
Gandhi the man needs little introduction. He was just a man, but a [...]

What struck me straight away was how similar this was, in many ways, to one of my favourite movies — Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. This was made two years prior to Butch, and I would feel certain saying that George Roy Hill took some inspiration from Penn.
That brings me to one problem I [...]