Archive for the ‘Film’ Category

Inglourious Basterds scalps its way to brilliance

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

Quentin Tarantino’s latest film has received a crazy mix of love and hate from the media – a reaction not uncommon when the cult film director is up for debate. I watched Tarantino’s latest with high hopes and the film most certainly did not disappoint. It was always a great idea to subvert the outcome of World War Two by making an African American, a Jewish woman and a band of Nazi-killing Jews led by an American gentile hailing from the mountains of Tennessee, the ones to destroy Hitler and his psychotic entourage. Read more on Rant!…

Orphan: a review

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

Jaume Collet-Serra’s Orphan recently ended a severely dry spell of horror film boredom. I am a horror junkie and nothing of late has been spine chillingly awesome. Gruesome … yes. Scary … sort of. Predictable … of course. Orphan is a psychological horror as opposed to the supernatural kind and the reason the film is successful is because it is a character-driven story that is played out exceedingly well by the cast. Read more on Rant!…