For most Sally Hawkins is an acquired taste, whilst some find performances a little on the niggling side, others find her a quiet, yet unassuming character actress who rolls effortlessly into any part she is given adding her own touch of…
Remaking a movie like The Magnificent Seven is a thankless task. Never mind that it is itself a remake – based on Kurosawa’s joyful Seven Samurai, fans of John Sturges’ classic will automatically revolt against any reimagining through fear…
Pleasures and days
Richard Linklater's Boyhood is a film about family life and a boy growing up from age six to age eighteen. It was shot over a twelve-year period, four days or so of shooting a year, with the principals all played by…
Barely a day goes by now without news of another US military drone strike. Sometimes its positive news, other times it’s tragic, but either way, the future of armed conflict appears to be here already. Arriving to compete for the Golden…
Military Language has long been a battleground. In a calculated attempt to sanitise the image of death and reduce culpability, euphemisms are employed aggressively. In the world of drone warfare, a successful strike is denoted by the simple…
Imagine if you were to take one of Shakespeare’s lesser known works and transplant it to modern day America where a drug dealing biker gang and the police are all set to square off. Now add in an 80’s B movie action vibe and mix it with…
Boyhood proves one of director Richard Linklater’s most ambitious projects yet. Not only must it had taken a lot of discipline to film a story in fragments over a twelve year period, but the real test is to keep an audience engrossed for…