by Andrew Pitchford | May 29, 2012 | Media
If we were to do this review in a tweet it would have read; “Theseus the Greek Superman rocks into town to save known universe from a wrestler King called Hyperion and spills a little blood. OK a lot!”We don’t see much from director Tarsem Singh but with a cinematic...
by Andrew Pitchford | May 23, 2012 | Media
What do Shakespeare and Chechnya have in common? Not a lot until Ralph Fiennes decided to take the Shakespearean play Coriolanus and interpret it through the modern eyes of urban warfare. Although written around 1605 the storyline takes us into the days of Rome as the...
by Andrew Pitchford | May 15, 2012 | Media
Margin Call was a movie we should have seen released in New Zealand a lot earlier. It wasn’t that long ago that the acronym GFC was sitting alone on the shelf without meaning. Then the Global Financial Crisis hit and banks paying out executives as the ship went down...
by Andrew Pitchford | May 8, 2012 | Media
So how does a survival movie fare with a pack of hungry wolves hunting their human prey? How does the audience feel when the humans are low on respect for life, their fellow man and themselves? Despite the feeling that this movie had only one way to turn we still went...
by Andrew Pitchford | May 4, 2012 | Media
Assemble! Get your 3D glasses on and come save the world with the Avengers. It’s a film project I didn’t think would come off but the genius of Joss Whedon has directed a mega blockbuster for the Marvel franchise. The question of whether an ensemble cast would work in...