Demob Happy

Love and death in a cold climate
5/10
In a recent bitch about Danny Boyle’s ever more frenetic visual style and expressing general irritation at the hyperactive mode of storytelling employed on his recent hit ‘Slumdog Millioanaire‘, my learned colleague David H. Schleicher posted the comment: “give me properly framed sustained panning long shots on celluloid any [...]

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Weightless
4/10
I’m loathe to criticise British cinema since it needs all the help it can get, but this doesn’t play to our nation’s filmmaking strengths. It’s worthy sci-fi which borrows a little from all corners of the genre (e.g., Event Horizon, the Alien franchise, 2001, Solaris) and garnishes it masses of relentless visual trickery. There [...]

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