We know what you’re thinking – ‘my browser’s already stuffed to the brim with interesting facts about trail-blazing Danish directors, for God’s sake’, but surely there’s always room for one more? It’s time for your weekly dose of proper good facts people; put away the humorous cats with moustaches and open up some LEARNING, it’s CHEAT SHEET TUESDAY!
Take In Bruges, add a dash of Hot Fuzz and you have The Guard, a sharply observed comedy set in Ireland, it may not please the easily offended but there are enough laughs here to ensure that Brendan Gleeson’s star turn is a must-see.
“The writing’s on the wall for graffiti artists” – so reads the tired and predictable tabloid punch line. But despite years of media hysteria and clean-up operations, graffiti remains a part of urban life throughout the developed world. Jon Reiss’ documentary Bomb It proposes to explore not only the tremendous diversity of global wall writing but the wall itself – posing the question ‘who owns public space, anyway?’.
Coming-of-age sex thriller sci-fi comedy horror [insert genres here ad infinitum] Kaboom is a chronic mess, taking the seeds of two or three respectable films and frantically ramming them together until ninety minutes of contrived teenagery garbage squirt out the middle and leave a stain on your cardy. Avoid.
The legendary Eastwood takes on a legendary film: Clint Eastwood is the official director of ‘A Star is Born’ remake
Wait…isn’t he that one from (insert name of invariably brilliant film here)?
Cars 2, arguably the undoing of decades of hard, sweat inducing work from the wonder that is Pixar. What were they thinking?
Watch out for the foot…
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