You can already imagine that Terrence Malick’s ‘live-action’ version of the Pocahontas fable isn’t all singing, all comedy… all talking raccoons. Nor does its fated love affair between fallen solider John Smith (Colin Farrell) and a barely-pubescent native (Q’Orianka Kilcher) go the way of recent film; Hard Candy (girl thinks man may be a paedophile, decides to um, ‘sever his pride’). The New World is instead a dreamlike and protracted loom into progress against nature. Anyone already familiar with Malick’s [...]

Where, oh where, did the buddie-movie go? It died with hoop earrings, pink-lipstick and polka-dot fashion wear. Or did it? I’m not sure. Nor am I exactly sure what happens within Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang’s celestially sardonic comedy-noir murder-mystery… something about a body in a boot… a missing sister… abusive parenting… necro-urolagnia… whatever, the point is: the eighties have been hip again for sometime now, and with the re-hipness comes the restoration of the epochs drollest raconteur, one Shane Black. [...]

There’s a scene in the end of the original Blade film in which our sword-swirling protagonist unexpectedly appears in The Mother Land, there’s snow on the floor, he’s wearing a long, black coat; he mutters something menacing in Russian, and whips of hot breath curl from his lips. It is bar far the most incredible moment in the history of cinema. I embellish, of course, but there’s definitely something about Russia that exudes a granular, raspy and incontestably cool connotation. [...]

Annoying, are the people who can do everything so well. It’s like the Maths nerd who’s better than you at football, or your mum being able to hold her ale better than you can. It just doesn’t seem fair. Miranda July is one of these people. Miranda, a performance artist, decided to make a film; she wrote it, directed it, and co-starred in it, it cost about £500,000 to make (the woeful Stealth cost £80 Million) and went on to [...]

Let’s catch up. It’s 500 years in the future, Earth has become overcrowded and its natural resources exhausted. The only solution is to find new galaxies to populate. Our two superpowers; The United States of America and China have merged; forming The Alliance: the autocrats of the known universe. Unwilling to be controlled, a small rebellion is formed, leading to a Galactic Civil War. The rebellion is quickly crushed. When not running from self-mutilating cannibals named Reavers, Rebel leader Malcolm [...]