Some of you are no doubt looking at that heading and wondering what a ‘leitmotif’ is, possibly wondering if it’s a form of Eastern Europeon cinematic style you don’t care about, or if I’m making up words for my own personal amusement. It is, in fact, a musical term used to describe a recurring piece … Continue reading
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DVD Review: The Bridge [M15+]
Dir: Wolfgang Panzer Cast: Francois Goeske, Franka Potente, Lars Steinhofel The Film Set in Germany during the tail end of WWII, The Bridge takes place in a small rural town where a group of school boys are drafted into the Hitler youth and assigned the task of defending the bridge into town from the incoming … Continue reading
DVD review: Metropia
Dir: Tarik Saleh Starring: Vincent Gallo, Julliette Lewis The Film Set in the year 2024, Metropia depicts a resource dry world that is controlled by a corporation who has linked existing subway systems into a giant network covering Europe. Roger (voiced by Gallo) is a disenfranchised worker who often suspects that something is not quite … Continue reading
Funk’s Top 10: Reasons to Put That DVD Back on the Shelf
Quite often you’ll be browsing the New Release section and pick up an unfamiliar title because the cover looks interesting. You’ll read the blurb and find potential for a good movie. You may even know some of the actors. Should you rent it? First check for one of these warning signs… 10. Walt Disney ‘Adventures’ … Continue reading
Funk’s Top 10: Most Annoying Fans
If you’re reading this then you are a movie fan. We love are movies and some we love than others. But we’ve all met someone who has taken their love too far… 10. Trekkies I’ve got no big issue with Trekkies. I haven’t seen enough Star Trek to judge it myself and the fans usually … Continue reading
Funk’s Top 10: Music Videos By Movie Directors
The music video market is a great place for directors to make their mark before moving onto bigger and better things. Other directors will take the chance to use the platform as a form of experimentation, or to lend their expertise to making a short film centred around a music performace. Here’s the ten best: … Continue reading
Funk’s Top 10: Smart 2nd Choices in Casting
Every movie goes through a long casting process and sometimes decisions are made in haste only for the producers to make a switch later in the game. Sometimes it happens before shooting, sometimes during – they generally don’t get mentioned again. There’s plenty of surprising potential films out there. Such as… 10. Sandra Bullock decides … Continue reading
Top 10 Video Games for Movie Fans (That Aren’t Based on Movies) by G-Funk
With the advancement of interactive video entertainment (read: games) in the past two decades we’ve seen the line between consoles button mashers and silver screen classics begin to blur. Extensive narrative, realistic graphics and player controlled cameras could see previously uninterested movie buffs pick up a control pad and get involved. Here’s ten places to … Continue reading
The 10 Least Threatening Villains in Cinema by G-Funk
Cinema is littered with many great examples of evil villainly, and countless lists have been dedicated to them. Here’s the opposite end of the spectrum: the ones who sucked at the job. These boys couldn’t menace their way out of a paper bag. 10. Green Goblin (William Dafoe) from Spider-man Let’s be clear about one … Continue reading
Thursday Top 10 – Opening Scenes
10. The Fellowship of the Ring Adapting the epic trilogy to the screen, capturing the scale and condensing the fictional history was a big sell. Telling us that it was going to be achieved by a Kiwi director whose most seen previous work was Braindead was an even bigger sell. Needless to say that this … Continue reading
X-Men: First Class (Review by Gareth Mitchell)
A rare thing in modern Hollywood cinema – the prequel that adds to a franchise instead of using gimmicky fanbaiting to make a quick buck. X-Men: First Class steps away from the established story and characters from the four existing films to reset the clock back 40 years to tell the story of Professor X … Continue reading
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