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The Films of Paul Verhoeven
FilmJuice have just uploaded a piece I wrote for them about the films of Paul Verhoeven, director of Robocop, Total Recall, Showgirls and Basic Instinct. Regular readers of this site will know that I...
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REVIEW – Purge (2012)
Videovista have my review of Antti Jokinen’s Purge or Pudhistus in its native Finnish. Based on a hugely successful novel by the Finnish-Estonian writer Sofi Oksanen, Purge uses two different time...
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Like Worms in the Belly of Some Great Beast: Family Values and Crusader Kings II
0. Video Games as Purveyors of Moral Outrage There are two main ways in which a work can provoke a moral reaction: The first is by using the power of narrative to encourage feelings of sympathy for a...
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REVIEW – Zaytoun (2012)
Videovista have my review of Eran Riklis’s Zaytoun, an almost impossibly idealistic film about Arab-Israeli relations. Set during the 1982 Lebanon war, Zaytoun tells of an Israeli fighter pilot who is...
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REVIEW – Burnt by the Sun 2 (2010)
FilmJuice have my review of Nikita Mikhalkov’s five-hour Second World War epic Burnt by the Sun 2. Burnt by the Sun 2 is one of the most demented films that I have ever come across. Way back in 1994,...
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REVIEW – In The Fog (2012)
FilmJuice have my review of Sergei Loznitsa’s historical war movie In The Fog. Based on a short story by the renowned Belarusian author Vasil’ Bykaw, In The Fog is a slow, moody and atmospheric...
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REVIEW – Winter of Discontent (2012)
FilmJuice have my review of Ibrahim El Batout’s film about the Egyptian revolution Winter of Discontent. Made in the immediate aftermath of the 2011 overthrow of Mubarak regime, Winter of Discontent...
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REVIEW – Wings (1927)
FilmJuice have my review of William A. Wellman’s Wings, the first ever film to win a Best Picture Academy Award. Set during World War I, the film follows a pair of young men as they travel to France...
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REVIEW – Ender’s Game (2013)
Videovista has my review of Gavin Hood’s cinematic adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s sinister science fiction novel Ender’s Game. Quite possibly the single most commercially successful science fiction...
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REVIEW – Jack Strong (2014)
FilmJuice have my review of Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s historical espionage thriller Jack Strong, which is out in the UK on Monday. Set during the final decades of the Cold War, the film tells the story of...
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REVIEW — Stalag 17 (1953)
FilmJuice have my review of Billy Wilder’s misleading P.O.W. comedy Stalag 17. I say “misleading” as while the film was initially marketed as a tribute to America’s brave prisoners of war, the film’s...
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REVIEW — The Captive Heart (1946)
Earlier this week, I wondered what a fully mature and authentic British film industry might actually look like. For inspiration, I looked to the British cinema of the 1940s and found both good and...
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Ivan’s Childhood (1962) – Adolescent Dreamscapes
Andrei Tarkovsky’s first film began life as a respectful adaptation of an autobiographical story about a child’s experiences working as a military scout during World War II. The story had already been...
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REVIEW — Yoon Ha Lee’s Ninefox Gambit (2015)
Having now finished reviewing the six books I nominated as part of my personal shortlist, I turn my attention to the books that made it onto the official Arthur C. Clarke Award short-list. Yoon Ha...
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REVIEW – Zaytoun (2012)
Videovista have my review of Eran Riklis’s Zaytoun, an almost impossibly idealistic film about Arab-Israeli relations. Set during the 1982 Lebanon war, Zaytoun tells of an Israeli fighter pilot who is...
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