His Girl Friday, also known as How To Systematically Destroy A Love Rival’s Masculinity, stars Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell as quarrelling journalists in Howard Hawks’s classic screwball comedy.
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Often referred to as the best Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never made, Charade is worthy of being associated with the master director. But kudos must go to director Stanley Donen, and writer Peter Stone for delivering a smart and funny romantic-comedy-thriller.
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An attempt to capture the realities of space travel falls flat in this anti-film.
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This seminal and pioneering science fiction epic still resonates today.
An amazingly trippy visual hallucinogen injected into your eyeballs, this is a striking debut from a director with vision, following in the clinical footsteps of Kubrick.
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Shane Carruth’s follow-up to his time-travelling mindfucker Primer comes almost ten years later, and is a film about shared consciousness, splintering of identity; of cycles controlling lives, a possibly nefarious music sampler dude, and lots of scared pigs.
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It’s been more than fifty years since this film was released, and due to personal experience, I can successfully say that not much has changed in Japanese bureaucracy.
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Kurosawa’s ode to Shakespeare’s Macbeth follows the tale beat for beat in a Japanese context, set during the warring states period rife with betrayal and shifting alliances.
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As this film began I wondered how I had missed a Ridley Scott film back in 2008, and by the midway point I remembered: there was nothing unique, compelling or memorable about it from the trailers, and by the end the same could be said for the film as a whole.
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Many things went through my mind as I began to watch Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 chanbara film, set during Japan’s warring states period.
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