True Hollywood Story: Argo
Ben Affleck’s new film, which dramatises part of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, aims to be a send-up of Hollywood as well as an action-packed tale of true espionage; unfortunately, it takes liberties with the facts, and is bogged down by a commitment to period style. Continue reading True Hollywood Story: Argo
Beasts, Kingdoms, Holy Motors: The New Zealand International Film Festivals 2012
The 2012 festival lineup is spectacular, with yet another record-breaking number of films direct from Cannes, and the world premières of more than half a dozen locally-made features. Continue reading Beasts, Kingdoms, Holy Motors: The New Zealand International Film Festivals 2012
Man on a Ledge
Directed seemingly only for the paycheck by Jørgen Leth’s son Asgar, and written by some hack called Pablo F. Fenjves, this is the kind of disposable Hollywood garbage that, once you start to think about its many faults, falls to pieces very quickly. Continue reading Man on a Ledge
