I’m going to be adding my voice to the heard here. Like Paranoia itself, there isn’t much that is original that I can add to the already well-worn list of complaints, except that if you are going to make a high-tech thriller about the future of the telecommunications age, you should have at least come […]
Category Archives: Film Reviews
August
20
Paranoia – Robert Luketic and The not-so-Firm remake. (film review)
posted by lisathatcher
August
16
Lovelace – Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman tell half a tale that’s true. (film review)
posted by lisathatcher
Probably the best popular film we have to date, regarding the issue of pornography, is The People V’s Larry Flint. I’m no Larry Flint fan, but the film was primarily about freedom of speech and the right to open or close Hustler magazine being left to the individual. I’ve said on this blog many times […]
July
21
Destricted – The place where art and pornography connect. (film review)
posted by lisathatcher
Please note – many of the You Tube excerpts I have added here are sexually graphic. Please don’t watch this material if you suspect this might bother you. According to Jean-Luc Godard the primary role of popular films and almost all television, is to see our “story” reinforced. No where is this more obvious than […]
July
16
Behind the Candelabra – Steven Soderbergh and the ‘appropriate gay’. (film review)
posted by lisathatcher
The fear behind colonization and appropriation is the most destructive force on the planet today – and probably has always been. The desire to claim something for oneself, and negate any other interpretation is a force so pervasive we usually do not know that we have adopted it as our own. I’m going to assume […]
July
09
Pacific Rim – Guillermo del Toro and tweenage passion. (Film Review)
posted by lisathatcher
There is a wonderful scene in Team America where almost all of Paris (including the Louvre and all it contains) is blown to smithereens in the name of catching a bad guy. At the end of the scene the French, who are staring mouths agape at the ruins around them, are told not to worry, […]
July
07
Paradise: Love – Ulrich Seidl and the uglienss of unmet desire. (SFF Film Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Paradise: Love is the first in the ‘Paradise Trilogy’ put together by Ulrich Seidl, released in late 2012 and early 2013. The next two films in the series are Paradise: Faith and Paradise: Love. I met a female Australian sex worker a couple of years back who was one of the speakers for The Scarlet […]
July
04
Before Midnight – Three writers and one of the best couples in cinema. (SFF Film Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Almost impossibly against the odds, Before Midnight is as good, if not better than its predecessors. Linklater made the clever move of including Delpy and Hawke in on the collaboration for Before Sunset and this move has provided us with one of the most endearing couples in cinema history. Much has been said about July […]
July
03
Midnight’s Children – Deepa Mehta squashes generations into two hours. (SFF film review)
posted by lisathatcher
Most of what matters in our life, takes place in our absence. (Salman Rushdie from Midnight’s Children) It’s difficult to put your finger on what is “wrong” with Midnight’s Children, because all the ingredients are there for the making of a very brilliant film, and I can see decades into my own future, still no […]
July
02
The Look of Love – Michael Winterbottom’s missed opportunities. (SFF Film Review)
posted by lisathatcher
It must have been a terrible blow to misogynistic mythology to find that the greatest sexual revolution that transformed the world forever came not from men being “free” to do what comes “naturally”, but rather the assurance that a woman does not have to have a baby. It wasn’t until women were promised, unequivocally that […]
July
01
This is the End : Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg do Bromance, again. (Film Review)
posted by lisathatcher
This Is The End is about to hit Australian shores and already it has doubled it’s budget in juicy financial returns for writers, directors and producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The film is very much a “two-man show” with Rogen not only writing himself the nicest part of anyone, but also filling the film […]
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