Movie Review

or, Fucking dwarfs in Belgium? A Review of In Bruges Martin McDonagh’s reasons for setting his self-directed (and written) film In Bruges, in Bruges, is unclear. It may have to do with the fact that a beautiful picture will emerge wherever a camera is pointed. Cinematographer Eigil Bryld serves him well in virtually every frame. Harry (Ralph Fiennes – having a great time playing Michael Caine), an English criminal ‘boss’, and the only remotely honourable character in the... [more>

The 8th annual Belfast Film Festivalrolls into town next month, and among the 125 events, screening films from 32 countries, a number of LGBT interest films are on offer. Otto; Or Up With Dead People (Cert 18) is the latest offering from leading gay experimental director Bruce La Bruce (who will participate in a Q&A after the screening), telling... [more>

STRIP JACK NAKED, subtitled Night hawks II is a film about a film. It is about the making of Nighthawks (released in 1979, but in production from 1974). There is, too, a large element of the Director, Ron Peck’s autobiography in the film. Towards the end of the film I realised why thiSeand the original film were fundamentally flawed. Ron Peck... [more>

Dir: Richard Glatzer Starring: Alexis Arlette,lackie Beat. Craig Chester Looking at Grief is like looking at the balance sheet of a business. You know that it is valid for the time it was put together, but you also know that things have changed. It has feeling of surrealism, which continues for the first 20-30 minutes of the tilm, creating an... [more>

Sitting through Carrington I wished I was at Braveheart, I did not quite think the opposite at Braveheart. Mel Gibson is going to have to face the fact that dallying with women in their twenties is beginning to look dubious in a man wh’ll soon be a grandfather. Some objected to the portrayal of the Prince of Wales [Edward II] in Gibson’s... [more>

Nothing Personal iSean oddity, it is vaguely based on the so-called Shankill Butchers (hacking people to pieces in lock-up garages being deemed to be particularly unmoral, and radically different from hacking people to pieces by bombing *ass-fronted buildings during rush-hour: or by dropping ’smart’ bombs on the world’s oldest city).... [more>

This film is claimed to be “hard-edged” because it deals with early-teens engaging in drink, drugs, and sex. The central figure is Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) who is interested in fucking virgins. He scores two in the one day of the action of the film, and is pursued by Jenny (ChIoe Sevigny) who he has infected with HIV in a prior conquest.... [more>

I finally got around to watching this film, and I was not impressed. The story line of an anti-hero has been better scripted and played in films like The Good, The Bad And The Ugly and Shane. Indeed, I would say that if you were to compare the basic outline of Shane with Waterworld, you would find them the same. An unknown arrives in town, doesn’t... [more>