The Citizen Kane of Awful: LOL Tom Bond April 26, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, The Citizen Kane of Awful 1 Comment Cast: Miley Cyrus, Douglas Booth, Ashley Greene, Demi Moore Director: Lisa Azuelos Writers: Lisa Azuelos, Kamir Aïnouz Estimated Budget: $11 million U.S. Gross: Unknown When people...
Obvious Child – Sundance London Review Tom Bond April 26, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Have you ever been to one of those stand-up gigs where the comedian succeeds through sheer force of personality? That’s Obvious Child, and its lead, Jenny Slate. The story is insubstantial and the humour...
Blue Ruin – Sundance London Review Tom Bond April 26, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Macon Blair is crazy and a tramp as the shell-shocked hobo with a shotgun seeking vengeance. His beginnings as a bearded vagrant are brushed over too quickly, but Blair is excellent, a wide-eyed bag of nerves...
The Trip to Italy – Sundance London Review Tom Bond April 26, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment La bella Italia, La Dolce Vita – it’s all on display in this glorious Grand Tour, full of good friends and good food and, most of all, full of laughter. Brydon, and Coogan in particular, are less...
Best Films Never Made #15: Alain Resnais’s Spider-Man Tom Bond April 18, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 1 Comment Andrew Garfield, Marc Webb, Tobey Maguire, Sam Raimi: what if Alain Resnais and Henry Winkler were added to that list? It seems improbable, but once upon a time the legendary director of the French New Wave...
The Raid 2 – Review Tom Bond April 11, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Get ready for your new favourite fight scenes. Baseball Boy. Hammer Girl. The hotplate. The mudbath bloodbath. And oh boy, if you thought Gravity was visceral cinema then the kitchen showdown is here to...
The Citizen Kane of Awful: Titanic – The Legend Goes On Tom Bond April 10, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, The Citizen Kane of Awful 1 Comment Cast: Lisa Russo, Mark Thompson-Ashworth, Silva Belton Director: Camillo Teti Writer: Camillo Teti Estimated Budget: Unknown U.S. Gross: Unknown When I say Titanic, what do you think of?...
Half of a Yellow Sun – Review Tom Bond April 7, 2014 Reviews 2 Comments If Adichie's book was half of a yellow sun then this adaptation merely cowers under its imposing shadow. Bandele's theatre background shows in the basic and unimaginative direction and his screenplay...
Ten Degrees of Trivia: Captain America: The Winter Soldier Tom Bond April 1, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, Ten Degrees of Trivia 1 Comment Love trivia? Love six degrees of Kevin Bacon? Then you’ve come to the right place. Ten Degrees of Trivia combines the two to take you on a journey through the world of loosely connected facts, beginning and...
The Citizen Kane of Awful: Osombie Tom Bond March 27, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, The Citizen Kane of Awful 4 Comments Cast: Corey Sevier, Eve Mauro, Jasen Wade, Danielle Chuchran, Paul D, Hunt, Matthew Reese Director: John Lyde Writer: Kurt Hale Estimated Budget: Unknown U.S. Gross: Unknown This week...
The Zero Theorem – Review Tom Bond March 15, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment The Zero Theorem is unmistakably a Terry Gilliam film, for better or worse. He has created a deliciously chaotic dystopia, saturated with colour and adverts, but his ramshackle directing threatens to disengage...
Ten Degrees of Trivia: The Grand Budapest Hotel Tom Bond March 14, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, Ten Degrees of Trivia 2 Comments Love trivia? Love six degrees of Kevin Bacon? Then you’ve come to the right place. Our new feature Ten Degrees of Trivia will combine the two to take you on a journey through the world of loosely connected...
The Citizen Kane of Awful: The Love Guru Tom Bond March 12, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, The Citizen Kane of Awful 1 Comment For Your Consideration: The Love Guru Cast: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Verne Troyer, Romany Malco Director: Marco Schnabel Writer: Mike Myers, Graham Gordy Estimated...
Best Films Never Made #12: Shane Carruth’s A Topiary Tom Bond March 7, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 18 Comments In 2004, Shane Carruth stunned the film industry with his visionary debut, Primer. Taking a meticulous and realist approach to the ever-popular sci-fi theme of time travel, his singular vision earned him the...
Why the Razzies are Pointless, Lazy and Unnecessary Tom Bond March 1, 2014 Analysis, Features, Opinion Welcome to the jewel in the crown of awards season. Tonight the world holds its breath for the 34th Annual Razzies, where all that glitters is most definitely not gold. Formed in 1980 by publicist John J. B....