Film Review
Fifty Dead Men Walking
Dolores was right, “It’s the same old thing since 1916”. But for the past decade, the fighting was not being fought with “their tanks and their bombs and their bombs and their guns”, but with diplomacy. And it was working… until the murder of two British soldiers by the Real IRA [...]

Bill Maher preaches the gospel of “I don’t know”. He’s an evangelist of doubt. A sermonizer of rationality. A missionary of questioning. And like his opponents, the evangelical fanatics, religious zealots and the dogged clergy, his views are seldom supported with fact, seldom open to serious debate and never given in an accepting forum.
Yet, this [...]

Does cinema need another dimension? As far as I can tell, it seems to be working perfectly well with the two that it has.
My scepticism of this new dimension, which is nearly upon us, is not born from a clichéd fear of change, or a dogmatic clinging to tradition, but rather comes from a [...]

Film Review
Two Lovers
Although marketed as a touching romantic drama about a young man’s struggle deciding between the two women in his life, there is little romance, and no romantic love in Two Lovers. Yet, this paean to storytelling and the tradition of character driven cinema says more about love, the human condition, mental “stability” and [...]

Film Review
Gran Torino
With Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood has ended his acting career by putting his foot to the floor and driving back to the beginning. Back to those days 53 years ago of an actor with rough, gruff, hoarse and dangerous appeal.
Gran Torino is Eastwood’s acting epitaph. His final words. A performance that encapsulates traits [...]