Articles Posted in the " Drama " Category

  • Tracker

    We review Tracker with Ray Winstone doing a ‘seth afrikaaan’ accent and it’s not too shabby. Both the accent and the film. Read on to see if you want to know how Winstone would track you down…


  • Psalm 21

    Psalm 21 seems to be a film that was born after someone discovered a new button on Adobe After Effects: the scary grey face button. After finding this fun new special effect, the filmmakers then crowbarred the plot around it; oh, it’s a film about the evils of religion? No problem, we can give people scary grey faces and it will be a metaphor or something.


  • Seconds Apart

    Scary twins drive their classmates to suicide in Antonio Negret’s above-average horror/mystery; a film whose few dashes of originality allow it to remain more interesting than its limited release suggests.


  • Storm Boy

    1976 was kinda a big deal. Steve Jobs formed the Apple computer company, The Ramones released their first album, Big Ben stopped working, and the world saw the release of Storm Boy. Wait, what do you mean you’ve never heard of it? You sir, are missing out (sort of).


  • Vidal Sassoon: The Movie

    Before Vidal Sassoon pioneered the wash-and-go style we all know and love, women would generally go to the salon once a week to have their hair tweaked and set. Vidal broke a generation of women free from these shackles and made them look fabulous while doing so – sure it’s a story that deserves to be story told, but a 90 minute interview seems a little indulgent.


  • Trackman

    Three men decide to make a quick getaway by using the tunnels underneath the city taking three hostages with them for collateral. They thought they were the bad guys. That is until the met Trackman…


  • Sea Wolf

    Mutiny, death and philosophy on the high seas in this two-part made-for-TV adaptation of Jack London’s 1906 novel The Sea Wolf. Helped by an impressive cast and a faithful transposition of the original text’s deeply psychological and political themes, Sea Wolf is a bloody and tense maritime drama that delivers a lot more than you’d expect from the average period adaptation.


  • Midnight in Paris

    Woody Allen opened this year’s Cannes Film Festival with a tale of nostalgic wish fulfillment that sees Owen Wilson’s struggling writer transported to 1920s Paris in order to ‘find himself’. With Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso and rhinoceros enthusiast Salvador Dali along for the ride, Midnight in Paris is a charmingly unhurried fable which reminds you to be careful what you wish for.


  • The Way

    Martin Sheen may have come a long way from the acid-hazed, bloodied-fist waving lunatic that he was in Saigon but he is still a powerful actor. From the very first scene he pulls us in a makes us believe that he is that person on screen; and he does it with so little effort! This movie may seem like a massive love-in between father Martin Sheen and son Emilio Estévez, and it is, but it is so much more.