The first shot in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is a dirty window filmed from the outside. A slow zoom and
Author: Thomas Caldwell
Writer, broadcaster, film critic and film programmer.
Film review – Men in Black 3 (2012)
Filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld returns to the Men in Black films ten years after the second part and fifteen years after the original. As there hasn’t
Film review – The Dictator (2012)
When approaching the films written and staring English comedian and comic actor Sacha Baron Cohen, providing commentary on the nature of offense has become the
Film review – Dark Shadows (2012)
Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows is a strange blend of old fashioned humour, the director’s trademark gothic sensibility, monster movie and soap opera. While it doesn’t
Film review – King of Devil’s Island (2010)
It has taken over a year for the Norwegian drama King of Devil’s Island to reach Australia, but arriving in the shadow of Hunger Games
Joss Whedon’s character archetypes: The Avengers and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
My latest column for Killings, where I compare Joss Whedon’s take on the Marvel superhero characters as they appear in The Avengers to his Buffy the Vampire
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