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Two recent 3D experiences - my first since childhood - have left me with little doubt that 3D is the future of cinema, a future involving an immersive experience along the lines of Aldous Huxley’s feelies.

Robert Zemeckis has embarked upon a long pilgrimage towards the perfection of MoCap, somethin… Continue

It was a pleasure recently to be involved in the French Film Festival UK, which came to my university town for the first time this year.

Although I saw only five of the films that hopefully will feature in this and subsequent blogs specifically at the festival and/or related events, the festival does provide me with an opportunity to blog on those and other French films that recently I have seen at the cinema.

As such,… Continue

I sometimes wonder that I misunderstand how much I am misunderstood and that I am in fact very much understood and am a fool. The same cannot apply to Jane Campion - even if I similarly worry that people misunderstand her. Not in the sense that her films are easily comprehensible (I think it would be difficult to offer up a precise definition of 'what they mean'), but in the sense that the inability of audiences to understand Campion means too often that she is dismissed as a second rater, when… Continue

I wrote a long and personal blog on Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, USA/UK, 2008). Inasmuch as Away We Go is something of a follow-up, so too might this blog be.

If the marriage of Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April (Kate Winslet) fell apart because of a pregnancy, here we see Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) become a stronger c… Continue

I will forever be grateful to Richard Kelly for making Donnie Darko (USA, 2001), which was a mind-spin around parallel universes and the choice of passion over action, and I shall always admire his bravery for making Southland Tales (USA, 2006), which had six-screen split-screens, the Rock acting okay, Stiffler going mad, Buffy dancing at the end of the world, and Justin Timberlake… Continue