Author Eddie Falvey

Did Steven Spielberg ever make a more important film than Jaws? Whether or not he has made a greater film is open to (a no doubt heated) debate, but what remains is the fact that cinema would look quite...

Here is a question: was there a greater popular musician in the twentieth century than the inimitable Bob Dylan? Here is one answer: no there was not. Somewhere in the corner of a crowded bar a debate is...

Where does one begin with Keanu Reeves? Recently endowed with an (un)healthy dose of the Nic Cage effect – that is, being caught on the slippery slope of diminishing returns – Keanu is now one of the most...

Robert Altman’s name may well be familiar to many and yet he often remains something of a cipher to all but the most ardent film fans. Subversive, difficult, independent, prolific, genius; these are just a...

It is fair to say that Pearl Harbor’s turkey credentials are now the stuff of legend. A question remains, however: is Pearl Harbor really so bad as to deserve being lumped together with such...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odFh5LbTPI4 Produced to accompany his recent novel Consumed, Cronenberg’s The Nest stands alone as an effective miniature thesis on destructive obsession. It observes the...

There is a moment in Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, Inherent Vice - a frenetic, dope-fuelled odyssey based upon Thomas Pynchon’s novel - in which Joaquin Phoenix’s drug-addled private eye Doc...

You might forgive a general consensus that more is better in relation to a film’s running time; with avid fans fawning over myths of extra footage, deleted scenes, and unseen cuts, it is not hard to imagine...

It is that time of year once again. Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Oscar Season. By now the dust will have settled on last year's Oscar debates just in time for them to begin all over again. It is, by all...

So here it is, that precious moment you have all been waiting for with bated breath - welcome to One Room With A View’s Number 1 film of 2014; welcome to Richard Linklater’s masterpiece; welcome to...

Christmas is without doubt a charming time of year, but it is fair to say, certainly in the Western world, that it has grown into a somewhat superficial one also, and the festive season usually brings out the...

Sergio Leone is undoubtedly a master of his craft; in fact, such is his genius that one could approach any of his major works and find a film whose sheer magnificence is scarcely penetrated by whatever amount...

There is an almost mythic timelessness that permeates Andrew Dominik’s 2007 will-be masterpiece The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Seven years on it is not hard to see how such a...

Today it’s almost impossible to conceive that in the mid to late 1920s the notion of putting sound to film was received with repudiation, reluctance, and even hostility, even in the immediate aftermath of...

New Hollywood isn’t actually that new at all; in fact, the name demarcates a period of intense creativity, crisis, and change that occurred between the late 1960s and the early 1980s within the Hollywood...