horror
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by Oscar O’Sullivan The first hour of Sinners is not exactly indicative of the film that everyone is raving about. The film that is taking cinemas by storm doesn’t exist until hour two, but it also could not exist without that first act. For as shocking, exciting and genre-busting the main event is, the endless…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Whisky Galore and The Spy Who Loved Me I’ll generally concede that the British make great comedy, but this wasn’t it. Whisky Galore should be an anarchic good time, and is advertised as a subversive anti-authority piece, but it feels too entrenched in the sensibilities of its time to work…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Love Lies Bleeding Would you rather watch a sincere outcast love story, a surreal body horror or a traumatic gang thriller? With Love Lies Bleeding, you get all three at once – which isn’t necessarily a good thing. Each component is well-done and full of memorable moments, but it never…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Diamonds Are Forever Lazenby gave it his best shot, but damn if it isn’t good to take one last ride with Connery. Less human but far more entertaining to follow, the unflappable professional whose borderline psychopathy becomes a part of the charm. There is a semi-serious attempt to establish continuity…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Look, you can make a movie where nothing happens – as long as there’s a good reason for nothing happening. The Damned is simply not the kind of film where nothing should be happening. Picture this – an Icelandic fishing outpost, utterly isolated in the dead of winter, ignores a foreign ship…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Inland Empire Plotless by its very nature, Inland Empire began life as a series of digital camera tests that Lynch enjoyed so much he decided to string them together into a feature film. Ostensibly a story about an actress whose sense of reality begins to drift as she films a…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan While I have your attention, why not watch my Youtube video after you’re done reading these reviews? Go on, you know you want to. Monday – The Sixth Sense A film that surely needs no introduction. Um. The Sixth Sense. M. Night Shyamalan’s breakthrough hit is famous for having a twist that…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – An American Werewolf in London Stick to the road, stay off the moors. Simple instructions, but do our heroes follow them? Of course not. Cue two fatalities and one new werewolf. An American Werewolf in London is steeped in the tropes and mythology of werewolf films without feeling like a…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Play Misty for Me Clint Eastwood was best known for playing cowboys and cops, so of course the logical choice for his directorial debut was this, a thriller where he plays a radio DJ tormented by a superfan who won’t take no for an answer. Eastwood’s deep, even tones make…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Thunderball To describe this film in a word – wet. Filled with visually stunning underwater sequences that I can only assume were a nightmare to pull off, the results speak for themselves – be it the ethereal beauty of exploring a downed aircraft or the gonzo insanity of the final…
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