Film Reviews
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
The film promotes an insightful psychological examination of the universality of human nature but ultimately seems abridged despite its lengthy running time.
Grant Phipps wears...Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Tarkovsky's uncanny ability to capture and manipulate landscape provides the film with a tremendous sense of naturalistic power.
Grant Phipps pursues...A Single Man (Tom Ford)
Boasting a memorable performance from Colin Firth, fashion director Tom Ford's directorial debut looks great, but just doesn't fit quite right
Paul Fowler tries A Single Man on for size...A Zed and Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway)
Greenaway's semi-surrealist black comedy is an impressive and instructive exercise in the cinematic and scientific arts.
Grant Phipps inhabits...Eternity And A Day (Theo Angelopoulos)
A masterful meditation on time and loss.
Dan Schneider ruminates on....Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
A transcendent collaboration between revolutionary artists, the film is a stunning meditation on the essence and power of form and burgeoning sentimentalities of a transforming world of cinema.
Grant Phipps spends...Big Fan (Robert D. Siegel)
Siegel's layered and tortuous script is often transfixing, but his directorial amateurism is highlighted through an anxious cutting slideshow.
Grant Phipps is a...The Rules Of The Game (Jean Renoir)
Overrated but entertaining classic from Jean Renoir.
Dan Schneider exposes....Avatar (James Cameron)
It may not silence James Cameron's fiercest critics, but 'Avatar' is an impressive and engrossing accomplishment.
Paul Fowler takes a trip to Pandora...The Trial (Orson Welles)
While the film is aesthetically effective and faithful to Kafka's text, it is stricken by the notable flaw of a miscast Anthony Perkins as the confounded hero.
Grant Phipps cross-examines...
