The Society Of The Spectacle

So with Sundance just round the corner, buzz is already building around the Banksy documentary (over it) and of course numerous films we haven’t got a clue what they are will no doubt bubble to the surface. However in the meantime, Absolut Vodka has jumped into the fray with a 30 minute short film from Spike Jonze (You know his credit list no doubt). Entitled ‘I’m Here’, the film, a collaboration with TBWA/Chiat/Day (Absolut’s agency of record) it’s an idea that has already been done with Mother’s sponsorship of Shane Meadow’s short films for Eurostar as well as the film Somers Town,and always attracts top talent. (more…)

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Well 2010 is here, and to be contrary, I have put together the inevitable list of what moved me, thrilled me and blew me away from films in 2009. Oh and the stinkers as well. So, in the order in which they popped into my head, are my top films… (more…)

To American readers, you may not be aware of the work of Director Nick Love, his work, being of a very distinctive class of Britishness. Namely cockney football hooligans, south east london wide boys  and the world of the 80’s casual. So it’s no surprise that Love decided to take on and re-make what for many is the definitive statement on the rise of the football hooligan in 1980’s Britain. Alan Clarke’s The Firm. (more…)

I certainly am not the first person to blog about the Tarantino film Inglorious Basterds, but I doubt somehow I will be the last. Why? Because this is a film that you need to go and see, as contrary to the seemingly deluge of bad reviews surrounding the film, it is in fact brilliant and along with District 9 and the Hurt Locker, one of the films of 2009. (more…)

Last night i sat down and watched a film that totally and unexpectedly blew me away, not just for the quality of acting, writing and directorship that was on display, but for the fact that it told a story that seems more real and relevant that it was in 1976. The film was Network and here’s why it’s essential viewing. (more…)

I went to see Moon over the weekend and mighty good it is too. Starring Sam Rockwell as a lunar employee who after three years working on his own to maintain and mine the Moon the fuel that has solved the energy crisis (Th film is set in the near future) finds out all is not as it seems… (more…)

I’m sure many of you have seen the totally ludicrous and therefore amazing 2012 trailer-  from the ‘guys that bought you Independence Day’ comes the most cataclysmic disaster movie since well… the last one. (more…)

Because it’s friday.

I managed to get my hands on an advance copy of a new film called The Hurt Locker. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break – need i say more?) this is absolute monster film… (more…)

Great article this week in the consistently excellent Observer Music Monthly on the two events that came to define the best and worst of the new counterculture. Woodstock and Altamont. (more…)