Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter DEVIL’S ADVOCAT Ryan Reynolds’ playful yet resilient campaign to bring a truer representation of comic book mercenary, Deadpool, to movie theatres following the hatchet job Wolverine Origins inflicted upon the character, exhibited not just his love for filmmaking and unique characterisation, but affection for bizarre and outlandish black humour. Fans […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter LOOKING FOR CATHY Following a seven-year stint spent at Her Majesty’s Pleasure, George returns to his London home with hope of being reunited with estranged teenage daughter, Jeannie. What he discovers is a changed city, filled with new, racially diverse faces, and stricken by an increasingly seedy underbelly engorged on […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter FINAL. NAIL. COFFIN. It’s difficult to know where to begin with Accidental Love, so let’s start at the beginning; the bizarre, distasteful, goofball beginning. Jessica Biel stars as Alice Eckle, a small-town waitress who after being accidentally shot in the head with a nail gun (in the kookiest, Farrelly Brothers-esque manner […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter A deeply unsettling atmosphere radiates from the visuals of Tsai Ming Ling’s critically lauded 2013 Taiwanese-French drama, Stray Dogs. It is as though a set of gnarled fingers are slowly reaching out from the screen, inching ever closer and forming a deathly grasp around your neck. The picture’s opening scene depicts a […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter PAGES OF RAGE The ferocious thrill-ride that is Mad Max: Fury Road has quickly set itself aside as a contemporary action cinema classic, and yet for a movie packed with operatic violence and fiery bombast, Max’s latest trip to the wastelands is also a surprisingly progressive and thoughtful race to freedom. The combination of […]
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