Welcome to the Punch : Stylish, Gritty, Dumb as a Bag of Hammers
New Brit thriller Welcome to the Punch is stylish, gritty, and dumb as a bag of…
Don’t Be Late! : Films With Deadly Beginnings
Alfred Hitchcock is the “The Master of Suspense”, most well known for amplifying anxiety, panic, and high levels of anticipation in cinemas to an entirely new level. A pure genius…
Best Movie Villain Hair of 2012
In some of the year’s best performances by a stack of dead cells, the sheer bastardry of a character was perfectly matched by the glory of their tresses. It’s a…
Seven Psychopaths – All fur coat, no knickers
Seven Psychopaths really should be more fun that it is. Writer/Director Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to his excellent In Bruges is all fur coat, no knickers. Despite having an excellent cast…
Perturbing extra footage in Japanese version of Star Trek trailer
Brace yourselves my friends, in the Japanese version of the first teaser trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness there is a chilling moment which reminded this trekker of a certain…
Men love American Beauty, Women love Vertigo – IMDB by gender
Last week I called my mother. “What are you doing?” I asked. “Watching Empire Strikes Back” she replied. I am not a big fan of the Star Wars films. I…
Review : Two Little Boys
Two Little Boys brings a couple of New Zealand’s most abundant native resources to the big screen: beautiful scenery and idiot bogans. Within the first ten minutes a dead tourist bleeds…
Frankenweenie is a rare gem
Frankenweenie (2012) is the adorable re-retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, but of course you already knew that. This is the story of a boy and the love that he has…
Frankenweenie – Inside the Puppet Hospital
Stay tuned to EOS for our review of Frankenweenie, coming soon.…
Interview : Hillcoat and Cave on their Lawless collaboration
John Hillcoat likes to refer to Nick Cave – a key collaborator on all of his movies including his latest, the stylish gangster epic Lawless – as his right hand…
Maybe She’s Bourne With It: How the Bourne Movies Put the HBIC
Action movies are notoriously bad at producing decent roles for women, but for over ten years the Bourne thrillers have been responsible for some of the genre’s best female characters.…
Review : Lawless
Few groups get treated as badly by the movies as the country folk of the US South. This slander reached a peak with Deliverance, and its indelible linking of banjo…
SDCC Offsite : The Revenant screening
One of the many new movies using Comic Con to build interest is Kerry Prior’s 2009 zombie buddy movie The Revenant, which finally has a theatrical release this August. Director…
Whedon assembles a great Avengers movie
Staying after the credits to see the recently-shot final moment of Joss Whedon and Marvel’s The Avengers gave me the opportunity to hear something that, frankly, I don’t get to very often…
New Price of Kings doc released : Shimon Peres
“You photographed my heart, not my body” was the reaction of Israeli president Shimon Peres when he saw the documentary produced by Joanna Natasegara and Richard Symons as part of…
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