Review
Neil Fox 2011 Top Ten
It’s been a weird year for me. I’ve been spending so much time working on my doctorate it’s left less time for films, something I need to rectify in 2012 but even so, I loved a lot of movies this year and as ever, my top 3, I think, would stand up against any year’s [...]
Matt Strachan 2011 Top Ten
I’m a big fan of top ten lists and their assorted brethren (best of this, top twenty that, pre-mortem 1001 something or other). They don’t have the best of reputations these days, thanks to cynical examples such as 1001 Golf Holes You Must Play Before You Die and the omnipresent TV fodder that counts ITV2’s [...]
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Surely, there is no better indication of a film’s tension truly gripping its viewer, than when you have to remind yourself to breathe on more than one occasion? Having seen the impressive trailer for Sean Durkin’s debut feature Martha Marcy May Marlene, I was aware of what to expect, but nothing could prepare me for [...]
DN Picks: Nov11
Yes our November picks are a tad late, but we’ve been busy stressing about all the Christmas shopping we still have to do – we’d like Santa to bring us a nice SCARLET X if anyone’s overcome with the spirit of giving. Anyway, here’s what we got excited about last month. DN221: Littlerock – Mike [...]
Take Shelter
Fans of Martin Scorcese’s HBO series Boardwalk Empire won’t be surprised by the powerful performance Michael Shannon gives in Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter. Playing disturbed prohibition agent Nelson Van Alden, the actor has been the stand out performer so far in just under two seasons of the period drama, outshining the likes of Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt [...]
Another Earth
In this digital age, where computer generated graphics rule the big screen, subtle isn’t a word that’s often used when describing films of the science fiction genre. Cinema goers have become accustomed to the sci-fi blockbuster offering spectacular spaceship battles and invading alien armies, a far cry from the more sombre classics this genre was producing in the late 70s and early 80s. Things appear to be changing though and while there will always [...]
Terri
“Loser, Geek, Nerd, Weirdo”….whatever the label may be, the “Outsider” has become somewhat of a stalwart character in independent cinema. From the early beginnings with Sissy Spacek’s tormented teen in Brian De Palma’s Carrie and John Hughes’ collection of misfits in The Breakfast Club, the “Outsider” has continued to feature heavily in some of our big-screen favourites. [...]
Kerry Film Festival 2011
Part One I’ve been incredibly quiet on DN this year. Apologies for that, but the reason is I have been studying for my doctorate in cinema and writing a feature screenplay. Let’s just say you aren’t the only people I’ve been neglecting. The past week however saw me leave my relative hermit’s existence to see [...]
Miranda July on Strangers
Have you heard of the School of Life? No, no. Not the one everyone talks about when something goes horrifically wrong and your only saving grace is that you’ve learnt something. I mean The School of Life. No. I hadn’t heard of it either. Until Miranda July popped along to the Conway Hall to talk [...]
Junkhearts
Opening with close up shots of a disturbed looking Eddie Marsan as he greedily swigs from miniature whisky bottles and rummages through the remains of a littered ash tray, the beginning of Tinge Krishnan’s latest work sets the scene perfectly for what’s about to follow. This isn’t going to end happily! London may be a [...]
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