The first movie was great, and the second movie, though entertaining and full of promise, never quite lived up to that potential. This movie has a little to overcome – the small amount of disappointment involved with the sequel and Read more…
Category: Looking Forward
What do I want from this documentary? I want something that offers an insight into Salinger. What do I not want? Something salacious. What I am kind of expecting is something that sits astride both of those ideas. If one Read more…
I saw a trailer of this and was instantly interested in it. The set up is interesting, but with these pressure cooker situations it is how it plays out and whether or not the way it concludes feels like a Read more…
Two great actors and a great director with a simple premise that puts them in a high pressure situation against which back-drop their humanity is likely to be explored in very interesting ways. This has a lot of promise, and Read more…
The first Machete was one of those dumb enjoyment type films and I don\’t expect this to be any different. The Expendables and this strike me as the same kind of film – big dumb action movies in the spirit Read more…
I was fascinated by Julian Assange – what he represented more than who he was; because the thing that he stood for is becoming increasingly important in this day and age. The currency of information and the ramifications of its Read more…
I have watched a few documentaries on Steve Jobs and seen a couple of interviews. Is this likely to fill in the blanks? Probably not. It is interesting to ask what a biopic is going to do, what purpose it Read more…
District 9 was a great film, one that came out of nowhere and offered something really fresh – a shot in the arm for sci-fi. To think of that director with a bigger budget and two actors of the calibre Read more…
I am starting a new thing here – I want to talk about the things that are coming , because it will be interesting to see how expectation fares when actuality bumps up against it. I can flatly say that Read more…