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  • The Express
    Date posted:
    20/11/2008 - 7:28pm
    Year: 
    2008
    Director: 
    Gary Fleder
    Cast: 
    Ron Brown, Dennis Quaid, Charles S. Dutton
    Rating: 
    B
    Reviewed by: 
    Nancy Keefe Rhodes

    The ExpressGary Fleder's new sports biopic, The Express, offers a remarkable insight into the world of college football. Nancy Keefe Rhodes is rather taken with this fine genre piece.

  • Ballast
    Date posted:
    04/11/2008 - 12:17am
    Year: 
    2008
    Director: 
    Lance Hammer
    Cast: 
    Michael J. Smith Sr., Jim Myron Ross and Tarra Riggs
    Rating: 
    C
    Reviewed by: 
    Matt Kendall

    A single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence awakens the fury of a bitter and longstanding conflict.

  • Transsiberian
    Date posted:
    31/08/2008 - 8:18pm
    Year: 
    2008
    Director: 
    Brad Anderson
    Cast: 
    Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley, Kate Mara and Eduardo Noriega
    Rating: 
    B-
    Reviewed by: 
    Paolo Cabrelli

    In Brad Anderson's new film - an entry into the enduring sub-genre of train movies - Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer get in way too deep across the frozen Siberian wastelands. An enjoyable if unspectacular old-fashioned romp.

  • The Visitor
    Date posted:
    31/08/2008 - 11:56am
    Year: 
    2008
    Director: 
    Thomas McCarthy
    Cast: 
    Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Jekesai Gurira
    Rating: 
    B+
    Reviewed by: 
    Matt Kendall
    Matt Kendall gets to grips with this enlightening tale - a favourite of the film festivals - of a college professor who travels to New York City to attend a conference to find a young couple living in his apartment. At last, Richard Jenkins gets his own movie!
  • Unveiled
    Date posted:
    21/08/2008 - 12:40pm
    Year: 
    2005
    Director: 
    Angelina Maccarone
    Cast: 
    Jasmin Tabatabai, Anneke Kim Sarnau, and Navíd Akhavan
    Rating: 
    B-
    Reviewed by: 
    Matt Kendall

    Survival is not enough. Under peril of death Fariba Tabrizi has fled from Iran. In Germany she has no alternative way of avoiding the threat of deportation other than to assume the identity of a deceased co-detainee. Matt Kendall explores this intriguing tale of immigration.

  • Pineapple Express
    Date posted:
    21/08/2008 - 12:22pm
    Year: 
    2008
    Director: 
    David Gordon Green
    Cast: 
    Seth Rogen, James Franco, and Danny McBride
    Rating: 
    B+
    Reviewed by: 
    David Holmes

    What if a stoner’s wildest notions, both paranoid and grandiose, magically came true? That, in a nutshell, is the premise of Pineapple Express, a clever and detailed pastiche of 80’s buddy movies steeped in the conventions of loser comedy.

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  • Interview with Ballast filmmaker Lance Hammer
    Date posted:
    20/11/2008 - 7:18pm
    Writer: 
    Nancy Keefe Rhodes

    Ballast filmNancy Keefe Rhodes talks to director Lance Hammer about his intriguing new film Ballast, which was met with great applause at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

  • An Interview with Courtney Hunt
    Date posted:
    07/08/2008 - 10:00am
    Writer: 
    Nancy Keefe Rhodes

    Frozen River premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival - Nancy Keefe Rhodes talks to the film's writer / director Courtney Hunt.

  • Shouldn't all shows be made like The Wire?
    Date posted:
    03/08/2008 - 10:40am
    Writer: 
    Matt Kendall

    TV show of the moment, The Wire is fast becoming everyone's all time favourite. There's just something about its God-is-in-the-details approach that wins us over. Matt Kendall believes it points the way forward for the medium itself.

  • Fear in a Cold Climate: An Interview with Larry Fessenden
    Date posted:
    18/05/2008 - 4:41pm
    Writer: 
    Nancy Keefe Rhodes

    Nancy Keefe Rhodes talks to one of America's most interesting independent filmmakers on the DVD release of his latest film - The Last Winter - an eco-horror parable on global warming. Larry Fessenden discusses his thoughts behind the film, his influences and the siren call of Hollywood.

  • Scenery Bum: Mitchum and the Movies
    Date posted:
    03/05/2008 - 8:18pm
    Writer: 
    Laavanyan Ratnapalan

    The heavy-lidded, lusty lipped drawl of Robert Mitchum is one of cinema's indelible memories. A non-conforminst, a natural performer and one of the finest and most engrossing screen actors to croon a line of dialogue, Laavanyan Ratnapalan looks back at a career of transient genius and a man of escapable charms. 

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