Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter ERIC’S BEEN BLOWN UP Britain has a rich and long history of producing some of cinema’s most memorable and characterful crime films. From Mike Hodges’ Get Carter to Guy Ritchie’s Snatch, those quintessentially British quirks and traits – whether it is a regional accent or a blackly comic sense of […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter EXPRESS DELIVERY Martin Brest’s Midnight Run is the kind of movie you discover while idly flicking through your television’s countless channels in the middle of the night. It’s the kind of movie that even if you stumble across its cross-country antics at the halfway point, you still stick around for […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter DEATH OR GLORY Rooted in the inherently violent and aggressively traditional world of warring Yakuza factions, Yasuharu Hasebe’s Massacre Gun is a Japanese gangster flick that not only startled audiences upon its original release in 1967, but thanks to this latest Arrow Video Blu-ray restoration, still has the ability to […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter “YOU’RE DEAD SON, GET YOURSELF BURIED” Synonymous with a series a successful and celebrated Ealing Studios releases, including Whiskey Galore, The Man in the White Suit and The Ladykillers, Alexander Mackendrick’s first directorial effort upon crossing the Atlantic was a Machiavellian exposé of New York City’s seedy print media underbelly. […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter CATCH ME IF YOU CAN “The body is the first fact of human existence for me… my imagery tends to be body orientated, my narratives tend to be body orientated.” David Cronenberg Cult Canadian auteur, David Cronenberg, forged an illustrious career upon a grotesque yet deeply layered bed of […]
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Words: Brody Rossiter Twitter: @BrodyRossiter A MEATBALL WITH GRAVY Often cited as one of Hollywood’s most ambitious examples of the film noir genre, Stanley Kubrick’s third feature, The Killing (1956), is a tough and thrilling heist movie, sock full of razor sharp dialogue and murky personalities. Opening with narrated introductions to Kubrick’s ensemble of deadbeats, […]
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