February 12th, 2006
Another year, another Hollywood blockbuster featuring Nicholas Cage. 2004 produced the lacklustre ‘National Treasure’ and 2003 churned out the slightly better ‘Matchstick Men’, so surely Lord of War was destined to follow a similar mediocre path right from the start? Wrong. Lord of War is the film that reminds us why we keep flocking back to cinema’s to see Mr Cage strut his stuff, time and time again. As well as Cage’s comeback flick, this film could also be named as Niccol’s mainstream directorial breakthrough due to the fact that his previous efforts (S1m0ne and Gattaca), despite being fairly good, never got the global coverage they deserved.
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Posted by David in General, Reviews
February 5th, 2006
Ask any fan of horror movies who the king of the zombie genre is and they will almost certainly start chanting George A. Romero’s name. His ‘Trilogy of the Dead’ is widely considered as a line-up of all-time classics and consists of Night of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead and the original version of Dawn of the Dead. The 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead received a relatively warm reception from the horror community, but as expected, it was considered inferior to the original. So there was a scent of apprehension in the air when Zack Snyder’s plans to recreate Dawn came to light, a disappointing remake of such an exemplary example of the perfect zombie film would effectively turn Snyder into one of his subjects. However, there will be no need for a bloody finale (rather disappointingly) because Snyder has succeeded in creating an entertaining, slightly more action orientated, zombie flick.
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Posted by David in General, Reviews
