Category: Reviews
Puppet the Critic Show: John Wick 2
After I saw the poster for the second John Wick film, which seemed to have a hint of the horror film The Witch in its text and tone, I became intrigued, believing that John Wick 2 was going to use horror elements, extending the myth of Baba Yaga, and what happens to the boogey man…
Puppet The Critic Show – Inception 1:Minute Review
CURNBLOG is proud to welcome the latest member of our team, Puppet! Puppet has been a filmmaker for the last thirteen years, and has a passion for approaching online film criticism from a filmmaker’s perspective. More than this, his reviews are informed by a deep knowledge of film theory. In fact, he’s quite possibly the…
Faith no more: Why Scorsese’s Silence is a haunting work of art
‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ The desolate words of Jesus Christ on the cross offer one way into Martin Scorsese’s new film, Silence. The film inhabits the character of a 17th Century Jesuit missionary to Japan who is forced to recant his faith. The ‘silence’ being referred to in the film’s…
Why I just couldn’t like ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’
SPOILER ALERT: IF YOU’VE NOT SEEN ROGUE ONE, OR HAVE ANY INTEREST IN SEEING IT, DO NOT READ ON. I was little late to see Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and if I’m to be totally honest I wasn’t in any rush. Last year I wrote a very positive review of Star Wars: The…
Dangal: The perfect Bollywood film for the uninitiated
There is a general resistance to Bollywood cinema in Western countries. This isn’t so much because of any strong objection to them, as it is because their structure is so fundamentally different from the output of Hollywood. They are frequently quite long, invest heavily in a sense of the melodramatic, and perhaps most significantly, the…