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 [...]

Clint Eastwood has really become one of the best directors working in Hollywood today. He seems to have a thorough understanding of what works and how to simply tell a story without any overbearing moral lessons or special effects. His movies are subtle, and thoughtful, and really solid. The script was written by J. Michael [...]

Hunger relays the true story of the 1981 IRA hunger strike in Northern Ireland. Lead by Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender), this was a strike carried out by the prisoners of the Maze prison in an effort to win political status. It dramatises the events in the prison in the six weeks leading up to Sands’ [...]

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 [...]

Inherit the Wind is based on a play by the same name, and is a fictionalised account of the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial. Don’t worry, I didn’t know much about this beforehand either. Basically, you have a high school teacher who’s on trial for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution to his class — which was [...]