Todd Solondz, 2001 I watched this last night. I had been putting it off for years. I saw Happiness back in about 2003: it was really engaging, but there were one or two moments that were a bit tough to get through. Aronofsky has a reputation for making intense films, but Happiness was almost tooContinue reading “Storytelling”
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Baroness packaging fetish
Wasn’t there a character called Baroness in Action Force? Sorry, ‘G.I.’ ‘Joe’. Kinda makes it sound like a show about a bloke trying out special diets. ‘No bread for me!’ I was always more of a Transformers fan in my youth. That was tops. Inhumanoids too, actually, but mainly Transformers. I had tons of theContinue reading “Baroness packaging fetish”
Bring it on: in it to win it
Steve Rash (USA, 2007) Back in the early days of this century, before the George W. Bush reign of terror, we lived in a more innocent age. Where now we cower in fear of ‘terrrsts’ and credit crunches, the biggest controversy of the prior presidency had been Clinton getting his game on. During this halcyonContinue reading “Bring it on: in it to win it”
A Cock and Bull Story
Michael Winterbottom (UK, 2006) Steve Coogan, eh? While any artist or craftsman hates being associated with one piece of work for his whole career, it seems he will never escape the long shadow cast by his Alan Partridge character, possibly the finest British comedy creation of the nineties. Let’s face it, he’s infinitely preferable toContinue reading “A Cock and Bull Story”
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