When reviewing a new Steven Spielberg film, you come to it with decades of classics and masterpieces in your mind....
I was aware of the terror that is Freddy Kruger long before I ever saw a A Nightmare on Elm Street...
For a while now M. Night Shyamalan has been considered a relative joke of a director. After Earth and Avatar: The Last Airbender were
expensive failures. The Happening is one of the best worst films out there. Yet, something happened with Shyamalan adding 'producer' to his foray with the watchable Devil - a film that feels like it could have been a Shyamalan film all along. The hokiness of The Happening is
wholeheartedly embraced with his latest outing, The Visit.
There is an old Gary Larson Far Side cartoon which has two people standing beside a massive ditch. They have climbing gear on and ready to tackle the ditch. The line at the bottom was ‘because it’s not there’. I was quite young when I read this and didn’t entirely get it at the time. What wasn’t there that made these climbers want to go down a huge ditch?
My favourite documentary of all time is Jehane Noujaim’s 2004 Control Room. A film about the media’s involvement in the...