pop culture
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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 – 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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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 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 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 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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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid As the 1960s drew to a close and the writing was seemingly on the wall for the Hollywood Western, there was a sense that any Western released was a farewell tour. While some directors chose to put the genre to bed with deconstructions that…
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