November 12, 2003 – 12:00 am
Whether it's a morality tale doing undercover work as a thriller, or vice versa, 'Infernal Affairs' is furiously paced, full of drama, and as tense as elevator cable. Highly recommended.
November 11, 2003 – 12:00 am
Superb for its atmosphere and initial menace, but the ending is a real disappointment. 'Octane' travels down a long, strange highway, but unfortunately gets lost somewhere along the way.
November 6, 2003 – 12:00 am
The viewer is drawn into the interplay between these two different lives.
November 6, 2003 – 12:00 am
Visually stunning, but in every other way completely and utterly boring. I found myself rooting for the robots, if only for the sake of a swifter ending.
November 5, 2003 – 12:00 am
A Yorkshire nerd in love with an American femme fatale, an English film in love with American genres. The result is a romantic mystery that is neither very romantic nor very mysterious, but its quirky innocence may well still leave you smiling.
November 4, 2003 – 12:00 am
Visually its one of the most inventive pieces of cinema youre likely to see, but in every other department its essentially run-of-the-mill.
November 3, 2003 – 12:00 am
Much darker than your average superhero flick, Batman goes for style over substance but just about makes a success of it.
November 3, 2003 – 12:00 am
Downsized abbatoir workers, weird hitch-hikers, vandalised graveyards, abandoned cars, a macabre house, a hapless quintet of young lambs for the slaughter, and the gentle hum of a chainsaw. With these basic elements and next to no money, Tobe Hooper has spun an unapologetically mean-spirited tale of skewed family values and Southern discomfort, where all sanity is finished off with a skull-crushing hammer-blow. An absolute classic of horror, with many imitators but few rivals.
October 28, 2003 – 12:00 am
Where many of its nastier, bloodier copycats have long since been carved and diced from our memory, John Carpenter's low-budget, genre-defining excursion into the slasher film's virgin territories is still very much alive and freshly frightening today. A monument to Hitchcockian suspense, it brings terror out of the gothic castle and into the suburban streets and homes where it belongs. A classic slicing of American life.
October 28, 2003 – 12:00 am
Sex and desire come to a bloody head in this elliptical thriller. Stylish, clever, and full of insight into the darker side of both male and female sexuality – but when a film like this runs twenty or so minutes too long, just don't advertise the fact by calling it 'In the Cut'.
