Showing posts with label genre re-defining. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genre re-defining. Show all posts

Saturday, 12 May 2012

27/04/2012: Being John Malkovich [1999]

"Ever wanted to be someone else?" That is the tagline for Being John Malkovich, but isn't that the entire reason we watch movies? To be someone else? Being John Malkovich may be one of the strangest movies out there, but it does ask an important question, one everyone already knows the answer to.




Saturday, 21 April 2012

15/04/2012: The Cabin in the Woods [2012]

I wrote this review just after coming back from seeing it in the theatre. I have since seen it a second time in theatre and anxiously await the DVD release. At that time I claimed: “It is the most defining milestone in the horror genre in easily the last I don't know how many years, refreshingly original and yet a true homage to all the horror movies we already love.” In case you were wondering several months later, I still stand by that claim.