Out to own today:
Good Kill
 | “They don’t call it ‘Hellfire’ for nothing,” Colonel Jack Johns (Bruce Greenwood) Topical issues in a gripping, often sci-fi, setting have certainly made Andrew Niccol a filmmaker of ambition, whether writing or directing or both (THE TRUMAN SHOW, LORD OF WAR, GATTACA). The recent past – 2010 – and based on actual events is a step away from the norm for him. Re-teaming with an on form Ethan Hawke (BOYHOOD, BEFORE MIDNIGHT), Niccol looks at drone warfare. [To read more, click here.] |
White God
 | “Everything that is terrible is something that needs our love,” Rilke THE BIRDS meets DJANGO UNCHAINED meets LILYA 4-EVER, with canines, might somehow approximate the ambitions of WHITE GOD. Opening on that ambiguous/ominous/compassionate Rilke quote positions the film’s stall. A realistic, quote-unquote, monster movie utilising allegory to illustrate the heinousness of exploitation and superiority, WHITE GOD lends itself to several interpretations. As THE DARK KNIGHT discussed the war on terror and the war on drugs, WHITE GOD looks at conquest, eugenics and imperialism. See, told you, lofty goals. [To read more, click here.] |
American Heist
 | “No one goes for the vaults, that’s just in the movies,” James Kelly (Hayden Christensen) Actor Hayden Christensen turning up on the screen has a random quality (it has been four years since TAKERS and six since JUMPER). Inconsistently headlining, after the STAR WARS prequels might have made him a superstar as Anakin Skywalker, is perhaps a result of their dire quality, as well as his unfortunately charismaless and wooden performing modus operandi. And that sullen, mumbled turn is present here in a crime thriller echoing better movies. [To read more, click here.] |
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