Author: James Curnow
The Situation: Is Reality TV the Symptom of a Cultural Disease?
Excuse me for a moment while I rant. I don’t know what free-to-air television is like where you’re from, but I can’t watch it anymore. I’m considering unplugging my television antenna and retreating permanently into the warm comfort of my DVDs, Blu-rays and the infinite possibilities of downloadable content. These days, it seems that there…
Django Unchained: New Trailer
Anybody else excited? Tarantino occasionally takes hits over his cinema of referential overload, but I stand behind the man 100%. The most common arguments see people claiming his work is closer to plagiarism than homage, but the reality is that his reassembled visions are closer to acts of genre worship than anything else. They also…
A bizarre and mediocre ode to Stanley Kubrick
What could I possibly write about Kubrick that hasn’t been written before? Today at least… absolutely nothing. And so, in the interests of filling a blank page with some kind of Kubrick-esque blog, here is a series of hurriedly composed haikus, chronologically ordered, on the films of Stanley Kubrick. Flying Padre: An RKO-Pathe Screenliner…
Will Ferrell & Adam McKay: Comedic Genius
Comedy is a challenging form. For every hundred attempts made at producing something that might be considered funny to a commercially significant audience, only a dozen might be lucky/good enough to succeed. Of those that do succeed, only a minuscule number prove to be worthy enough to produce laughs more than a few years on.…
Lincoln (trailer)
I’m not too sure about this one. The idea of seeing an Abraham Lincoln biopic is very appealing, but does it really have to be Spielberg? While Spielberg is a great director for entertaining blockbusters, I still have a bad taste from the very naff, Saving Private Ryan (DISCLAIMER: Yes, the first thirty minutes were…