Jan
2012 20
2012 20
Real Steel
It’s 2020 and boxing between men is prohibited and boxers have been replaced by robots. Cool huh? Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) owns a boxing robot and pits it in the ring for money, but business don’t turn out to be profitable and Charlie ends up babysitting his not so welcome son Max (Dakota Goyo) for money ...
Jan
2012 15
2012 15
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Film Review)
It is impossible to approach the big screen adaptation of John le Carré’s masterpiece without comparing it with the epochal BBC series from 1979. That version starred Alec Guinness as MI6 spymaster George Smiley, along with a cast of peerless British thespians (Ian Bannen, Ian Richardson, Patrick Stewart, Siân Phillips) and is a perfect...
Jan
2012 13
2012 13
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
From the opening credits of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo- where dark, swirling digital imagery from the story uncoils to the roar of Immigrant Song (retooled by Trent Reznor), you know that Fincher means business. Stieg Larsson’s crime novel (the first in the phenomenonally successful Millenium Trilogy) was first adapted as a Swedish film...
Jan
2012 10
2012 10
Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows
Fun fact 1: I haven’t seen the first movie. I refused to, after catching a glimpse of the trailer and thinking “This isn’t Sherlock Holmes!”. Fun fact 2: I was an idiot for doing that. Summary: Watson, on the eve of his wedding, rejoins Mr. Holmes, in order to solve a number of recent crimes ...
Dec
2011 15
2011 15
Attenberg
Lately, I ‘ve been noticing a tendency to associate Greek cinema with “difficult”, “challenging” films. The Guardian called it “the Greek wave of weird cinema”. Harsh, unforgiving films who refuse to comfort the viewer and whose point is usually obscured behind allegory, symbolism or multiple...
Dec
2011 15
2011 15
Senna
It’s been a great year for documentaries and Asif Kapadia’s stunning film on the life and death of Ayrton Senna was one of the best. The film follows Senna’s career through a mixture of TV footage, family home videos and interviews with people who knew him, as he blazes through Formula One. It focuses on ...
Nov
2011 29
2011 29
Fright Night
After the unholy abomination that was the prequel to The Thing, I was reluctant to check out Fright Night, another 80s horror remake. Tom Holland’s 1985 vampire comedy is not one of my personal favorites or anything, but it’s still a fun little movie and features two of the all- time classic performances by Roddy ...
Nov
2011 25
2011 25
The Thing
The Thing? THE THING? Seriously? Look, why don’t you just remake Citizen Kane while you ‘re at it? OK, let me start over: Dear Hollywood, Please stop remaking* masterpieces. You don’t have the balls or the talent to pull it off and I can’t afford anger management classes. Best Regards, (-Dimitris Kontogiannis-)...
Nov
2011 17
2011 17
Immortals
In all fairness, I didn’t expect anything great… I was certain, greek mythology would, once again, be butchered but there was still some hope left in me, that it would be done in a spectacular way. Alas… Theseus, a poor man -who for some reason lives in a village built inside a cliff- vows vengeance ...
Nov
2011 16
2011 16
Don’ t Be Afraid of the Dark
In the early 70s, horror was all over American television. TV series such as Rod Sherling’s Night Gallery and Dark Shadows crept up on people’s living rooms every week and the networks even shot a number of made- for- TV movies with a horror subject. These days, TV movies are synonymous with crap and justly ...
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