The latest films by Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg and American filmmaker Wes Anderson are on the surface wildly different works, however, a comparison of the
Tag: Stanley Kubrick
Film review – Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Almost fifty years after it’s original 1964 release, Stanley Kubrick’s black comedy masterpiece is still as terrifying, insightful and hilarious as ever. In one regard,
Film review – The Tree of Life (2011)
The Tree of Life is a cinematic poem of extraordinary scope and ambition. Terrence Malick has created a film with a quality that is rarely
Free Will, Technology and Violence in a Futuristic Vision of Humanity – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the greatest films of all time and it is the director’s most profound and confounding exploration
Film review – Shutter Island (2010)
Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of the novel Shutter Island (by Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone author Dennis Lehane) is a film that operates on a
Film review – The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
The original 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still is one of the all time great classical Hollywood films. It was the first significant