criticism
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Wedding Crashers and Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds Much has been said about the death of the movie star in modern cinema – where are the names that can sell a film on their own merit, the stars who are more important than the characters they play? Much of the…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller is good clean fun with a thin but obvious layer of underlying innuendo that gives the central romance some much-needed bite that the airy-fairy political plotline inevitably lacks. The vague Cold War reveals of what’s really going on don’t matter as much as…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Almost done with college – at last. My documentary project will be available to view sometime soon, stay tuned, and for now enjoy the usual weekly reviews. Monday – Kneecap The trailer for this didn’t exactly fill me with confidence – an Irish rap group with a Republican gimmick getting a big…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan God almighty but doesn’t college take it out of you? Monday – The Royal Tenenbaums An all-time favourite of mine – Wes Anderson can do no wrong. Gene Hackman is so utterly compelling as Royal, maybe the greatest difficult dad in cinema history, a corrupt hustler who thinks it’s appropriate to shoot…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan It’s going to be a busy couple of weeks on my end with work, college projects and other general life obligations – I’ll still have time to watch plenty of movies, mind you, just less time to talk about them. This week’s reviews are all a little shorter than I’d normally write…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Speed Racer Let it never be said that I don’t like fun. Speed Racer is a magnificent, joyous explosion of a film, a non-stop twirling headlong rush though a cartoon world of vibrant colours and bizarre characters treated with a genuine and heartfelt emotional honesty that just doesn’t seem to…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan As a kid growing up in the 2000s, watching a movie was a very different experience than it is today. Streaming was barely an idea yet, my TV options were Dora and Blues Clues, and the cinema trips were a relative rarity. DVDs were where it was at, a big silver box…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan You may notice that I have watched much, much fewer films this week than I ordinarily would. No, I have not come to my senses and found better uses for my time – a ridiculous thought. I was busy with a different but related way of wasting my time – making a…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Blackhat Michael Mann’s Blackhat is probably best remembered as ‘that movie where Thor is a computer hacker’, and is one of the biggest flops of the 2010s, losing about 90 million dollars at the box office and kneecapping Hemsworth’s non-Marvel career. It also put Mann in the so-called ‘Director Jail’…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Police Story Sometimes the most difficult films to discuss are the most self-evidently brilliant. What can I say about the film that isn’t obvious just from looking at it? Directed by and starring Jackie Chan, Police Story is far from your average cop procedural. From the very first scenes it…
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