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Reel Weekend | 25 April 2008
Based on a graphic novel, the beautifully hand-drawn, black-and-white Persepolis is an autobiographical story of Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian woman who spent the first decade of her life living a relatively happy childhood in Tehran, before being packed off to Vienna by her liberal parents. The film is a masterclass in economic story-telling, effectively condensing many years into just over 90 minutes, and Satrapi and writer-director Vincent Paronnaud manage to find verbal and visual humour in even the darkest of situations.
Reel Weekend | 18 April 2008
Acclaimed playwright Martin McDonagh's debut feature In Bruges is probably the first hitman movie to be set in Belgium, a country better known for worryingly fruity beer, Poirot and Jean Claude Van Damme than a violent criminal underworld. The hitmen in this case are a pair of Irishmen, played by Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, who come to the quaint medieval town of the title to cool off after a hit back in London goes wrong...
Behind the scenes: Quantum of Solace
Reel Report | 07 April 2008
An early look behind the scenes on the latest James Bond movie Quantum of Solace, due out in late 2008. In this short video Reel Report gets a peek at what we can expect in the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Casino Royale, from locations in Panama to low-flying planes in the desert. We can't tell too much about the plot from this short featurette but Quantum looks set to deliver the requisite amounts of action, drama and Daniel Craig in a tux.
Movie Review: I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
Reel Weekend | 04 April 2008
Chan-wook Park's I'm A Cyborg is not your typical romantic comedy. It opens with a woman cutting her own wrists, and proceeds to tell the story of Young-goon, a mentally ill girl who is convinced she is a killer android and has violent fantasies about massacring a bunch of doctors. Unlike Park's previous film Oldboy, there's no octopus gobbling, but fans of Asian splatter will still lap up the scenes of robotic mayhem.
Movie Review: Lars and the Real Girl
Reel Weekend | 28 March 2008
The tale of a man and his relationship with a life-size sex doll is not what you'd immediately consider could make a genuinely moving love story, but Lars and the Real Girl somehow manages to combine humour with a poignant look at loneliness and the fragility of the human mind. The emotionally troubled Lars meets Bianca, the girl of his dreams, however unfortunately for Lars he believes she's a living, breathing human being...
Reel Weekend | 14 March 2008
Director Brian De Palma returns to his low-budget roots with Redacted. The film was shot on high-def video for an American cable channel and looks at life in Iraq for a squad of American soldiers in typically controversial style. It focuses upon the brutal rape of an Iraqi girl by out-of-control American soldiers, and while it's not exactly subtle and doesn't tell us much we don't already know, it's pretty powerful stuff.
DVD Review: The Counterfeiters
Reel Weekend | 14 March 2008
For the second year in a row, Germany produced the Best Foreign Language winner at the Oscars, and like last year's The Lives Of Others, The Counterfeiters is a politically charged thriller about uncomfortable events in the country's past. This is a wartime tale, focusing on the uneasy relationship between the Nazis and Jewish counterfeiters, who were offered a slightly nicer life in concentration camps in return for creating fraudulent money and documents...
Movie Review: Margot at the Wedding
Reel Weekend | 29 February 2008
Margot at the Wedding, starring Nicole Kidman, Jack Black and Jennifer Jason Leigh, is a dark comedy written and directed by Noah Baumbach, whose previous movie The Squid and the Whale proved a breakthrough indie hit in 2005. Kidman plays Margot, a successful writer but emotional wreck who comes to visit her estranged sister Pauline after she hears she is about to marry a deeply unsuitable man she has only just met...
Reel Weekend | 29 February 2008
David Cronenberg has brought us many horrifying images over the years – from James Woods inserting pulsating video cassettes into his stomach to Jeff Goldblum transforming into a gloopy insect. But few are as disturbing as the sight of Viggo Mortensen's bits flapping around during the much-discussed bathhouse fight in Eastern Promises, which hits DVD shelves this week. This is the Canadian director's follow up to A History of Violence, and like that film, mixes a mainstream thriller plot with his own distinctive style.
Movie Review: There Will Be Blood
Reel Weekend | 07 February 2008
There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, is serious cinema – two-and-a-half hours of weighty drama, moral complexity and epic storytelling. Director Paul Thomas Anderson, who previously brought us the likes of Boogie Nights and Magnolia, makes his intention clear from the very start, opening with an entirely dialogue-free 15-minute prologue that will really sort the men from the boys among audiences...
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