Reviews
July 25th 2008
Lou Reed’s Berlin
This is as raw as it gets. No conversation, no soundbites, no background or history – just Lou Reed playing his 1973 concept album, Berlin, in its entirety.
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
This latest from the bright, breezy and perennially banal Gurinder Chadha follows the budding love life of 15-year-old Georgia Nicholson.
Baby Mama
The idea behind Baby Mama – a 37-year-old single woman has a baby on her own – is a great one.
July 18th 2008
Mad Detective
In a sense Johnny To’s latest, Mad Detective, co-directed by Wai Ka-fai, tells a similar story to his 2003 film, PTU.
Donkey Punch
Taking part in a sex act that has achieved the status of urban legend is all fun and games until someone gets killed.
Puffball
“It’s not exactly a child-friendly place, is it?” You don’t always expect words of truth from an estate agent but it’d be hard to put a spin on the house at the centre of the latest film from Nicolas Roeg.
Standard Operating Procedure
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Errol Morris, the grandee of documentary making and the poster boy for wannabe video journalists everywhere, has directed a dud.
WALL-E
Mankind is suicidal. And as we consume ourselves into an oblivion of obesity and rampant capitalism, we’re taking the earth down with us.
Crazy Love
Dan Klores’ Crazy Love tells the sometimes astonishing story of the intense, roller-coaster relationship between Burt Pugach, a prosperous, married, 32-year-old lawyer and Linda Riss, a beautiful 20-year-old girl living in the Bronx.
