The Artist Review
Share It’s hard to feel like you haven’t seen The Artist already and not just because of its nostalgic feel. It caused a storm at Cannes back in May and has been seemingly mentioned ever since. The latter no doubt due to the ever significant involvement of Harvey Weinstein, lumbering over the project as an...
Become a MAshRome friend or submit your film!
Share MAshRome Film Fest is in its inaugural year and with your help, we would like it to become the first Italian festival dedicated to Mash Up and cinematic Remix. The creative universe of Mash Up is very rich and we want to explore it with all of you. The festival will be the perfect...
Cocktails Inspired by Meryl Streep Performances: ‘The Iron Lady’
Share Meryl Thatcher, Gin Gimlet Snatcher 4 oz. Beefeater Gin 1 oz. Fresh Lime Juice Splash of soda water, if you please Garnish with lime wedge and mint leaves Hide your milk and get out the gin because it’s time to (pre-maturely, but appropriate nevertheless) toast Oscar Gold—and in 2012, awards season is...
Haigh’s Weekend & McQueen’s Shame: Film Reviews
Share WEEKEND 96 mins MA rating Director: Andrew Haigh Distributor: Rialto Cast: Tom Cullen & Chris New I don’t even know where to begin with this film. Some movies just leave you so affected that it’s all you think about for week after seeing it. Weekend for me wasn’t just a film, it was a...
The Artist – Review
Share Having just won ‘Best Motion Picture’, ‘Best Original Score’ and ‘Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture’ at the Golden Globes and receiving four awards at the Critics Choice Movie Awards, The Artist is proving to be incredibly popular. If you ever thought that classic movies were dull, then you will undoubtedly feel dubious...
Film Review: Clint Eastwood’s “J. Edgar” & Stephen Elliot’s “A Few Best Men”
Share J EDGAR 137mins M rating Director: Clint Eastwood Distributor: Roadshow Films Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts and Dame Judy Dench The Oscars love a bio-pic so how apt it is that this Clint Eastwood directed film would make an appearance just at the start of award season. Leonardo DiCaprio plays John Edgar...
One Day: Book vs Film
Share Novel and screenplay written by David Nicholls. The book should come with a warning: “Do Not Read In Public.” The film is fine to watch in company– you’re sat in a big dark room, surrounded by people having the same emotional reactions as you. (Which were even more intense when I was reading, instead...
What’s in a ‘Weekend’? Sex, drugs and reality.
Share I have a real fetish for independent, art house cinema. Being seated in preparation for a film that I have very little knowledge of (from cast and plot to location and cinematography) is a very pleasant, refreshing situation to be in. Is it a want for spontaneity? Is it a reaction to the inability...
‘Audrey a Roma’ – at the Ara Pacis, Rome
Share The legend of Audrey Hepburn has taken on many different guises over the last five decades. There is Audrey as Holly Golightly, the wide eyed ‘socialite’ who flitters around New York in the early 1960s in her now iconic black Givenchy dress, belonging to no one. There is Audrey as Princess Ann, rebelling in...
Film Review: Bombay Beach
Share Every story has three sides, so they say. Bombay Beach is three edges of a triangle that tell a tale of surviving, existing and living. With such subtle details to distinguish the three, sometimes the fine line between each blurs into the shape of your perspective. An idea no more apparent than in this...
Learning about Joyce Vincent – Carol Morley’s ‘Dreams of a Life’
Share If you haven’t heard of it already, type ‘Joyce Vincent’ into Google and see what comes up. A tragedy that hit news headlines back in 2006, and now relinquished to the backs of people’s minds, Carol Morley brings this issue to the fore once again. A woman died alone in her flat. Sad, yes....
Review: Jeff Nichols’s ‘Take Shelter’
Share “There’s a storm a-coming”, yells Curtis (Academy Award nominated Michael Shannon) with the visceral power of a Southern baptist preacher, “and none of you are prepared for it!” Churchgoers tremble in their chairs. He breaks down in tears. His wife rushes to comfort him. “Take Shelter” is a moving, haunting and powerful piece of...
Travels by Film – Grease (Los Angeles, 1978)
Share Rydell High School. Children, welcome to 1950s America by way of 1970s America by way of some expat Australians. It’s gonna be a wild ride. I have friends who can sing all the songs from Grease, that Disney-esque view of being cool in high school. (Fair play, Grease does declare its fantasy-realm from the...
Double Take
Share Johan Grimonprez’s mock docudrama is an intriguing fusion of documentary and narrative drama. It merges live action and 50s stock footage to tell the fictitious account of how Alfred Hitchcock met his double while filming The Birds, and splices adverts and old news reel footage from the era. Through this, Grimonprez successfully conveys the...
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The Bridge [2006] – A Thoroughly Modern Documentary
Share If you’ll forgive me I’m going to throw caution to the wind and begin on a wild generalisation. These days [I know, but stay with me] films are not what they used to be. Now before you hyperlink off or three-finger swipe your way back I would like to clarify. This is not a...
A Hawk & A Hacksaw: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Share Dashing into those strange but wonderfully comforting concrete arms of the Barbican Centre from the cold rain, I soon discovered that most of the guests at Barbican Centre on this drizzly December evening were in attendance to hear the music of New Mexico duo, A Hawk & A Hacksaw; a uncommon act to be...
Andrew Haigh’s ‘Weekend’, And What It Has To Teach Us About Being Gay On Screen
Share Andrew Haigh’s Weekend is a wonderfully intimate and utterly engaging film, gently provocative whilst maintaining a very genuine heart. It follows 48 hours in the life of Russell, during which he drunkenly meets and sleeps with Glen, an artist working on a project about gay sex. They spend the weekend together, discovering more about...
Entering the Sleeping Beauty Chamber
Share Throughout this film, I was very aware of watching characters on the screen, rather than real people. Knowing that the director, Julia Leigh, is originally a writer, and that this was her first foray into the world of film, I was conscious of wanting to judge it on artistic merit and the believability of...
Barham and MacMahon’s Time Warp – Warp and Woof
Share Although rich in conceptual content, Anna Barham and Bea MacMahon’s first joint exhibition Warp and Woof remains something of an enigma. The artists share a fascination with the complex systems which are the underlying mechanics of the universe and representations of reality, having both studied mathematics before exhibiting as artists. Held in Glasgow’s...
‘City Of The Living Dead’ by Lucio Fulci
Share Scare and gore maestro Lucio Fulci, director of The House By The Cemetery, delivers another spaghetti horror ‘classic’ with this zombie nasty fresh from a pre-CG era, where glorious latex and dubbed dialogue reigned. Taking place in New York City, the story follows a young girl who, after experiencing a premonition at a séance,...
Film Review: Oranges and Sunshine
Share It will be news to many people that the Aboriginal people of Australia were not the only ones to have a stolen generation. Starting back in 1869, and continuing as late as the 1960’s, hundreds of thousands of children in the UK were separated from their parents and deported to Australia, Canada, New Zealand...
Classic film review: The Usual Suspects
Share The face of modern crime drama changed when Quentin Tarantino’s self-aware and irreverent Reservoir Dogs (1992) first hit the big screen. It was a change that was built upon when director Bryan Singer and scriptwriter Christopher McQuarrie (a former detective, no less) decided that there is nothing quite like a pacy, neo-noir whodunit to keep the moviegoer...
The making of a low-budget feature film by Tom Betts
Share Here’s how my friend Gav sums up my artistic output: Tom Betts makes film. I.e. one film. Singular. I have been working on Secrecy, my debut feature, for more than half a decade and this is the abridged story of how that happened. January 2006. I’m 26 years old. Orson Welles made Citizen...
Pursuer and pursued – Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’
Share Well aware of all the hype whirling around the impending arrival of Melancholia, I went in expecting to be disappointed. Would it live up to everything I hoped it would be? It wasn’t what I was expecting somehow, which doesn’t mean it was better or worse, simply different. Does that mean Lars von Trier...
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