JUNE FILM RELEASES
01 June ByzantiumNeil Jordan directs this slick thriller about two women that arrive in a shady seaside town, where the residents soon discover that they have a taste for blood. Stylish, Irish – this is how vampire films should be, not rolled in glitter!
07 June After Earth It’s the Smith Family Robinson as Big Will and Little Jayden find themselves stranded on a future, unpopulated Earth and have to defend themselves against super-evolved animals. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, the twist-in-the-tale is it’s not shit.
07 June Te IcemanTrue story of infamous contract killer / family man, Richard Kuklinski, who killed more than 100 men for the mob. Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire) stars and just like Chopper and Bronson did for Bana and Hardy, this should put him amongst the best of the bad guys.
21 June World War ZCGI heavy apocalyptic zombie tale based on the popular novel by Max Brooks, Brad Pitt stars as a UN worker racing to try to stop a worldwide zombie pandemic. In 3D. Looks very nice, adds very little to the genre, but great fun for fans of this sort of thing nonetheless. Smiley
DVD OF THE MONTH ZERO DARK THIRTY
A wise man once said “intelligence is knowing that the tomato is a fruit,
wisdom is not serving it with ice- cream”. Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Where’s Osama?’ is an intelligent film - uncompromisingly so, in fact - but I question its wisdom. Allow me to elaborate… From the opening moments – doomed voices during the WTC attacks over a black screen – there is a sense of dispassion. Te depiction of torture is unapologetic, the story unfolds with mechanical efficiency, and the finale is executed with cold precision. But there are questions about this story that the film leaves unasked. After all, we are watching the meticulously plotted assassination of an untried man. Whatever your feelings about that statement, and there are many to choose from, this film never comments on any. Now, let none of
JUNE DVD RELEASES
03 June Flight Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Yes, it’s a plane. And Denzel Washington is expertly smashing it into the ground, saving hundreds of lives even though he’s pissed up and coked to the nines. A widely overlooked gem, IMHO.
10 June House of Cards: Season 1 / Boss: Season 1 Same day release for two comparable box-sets. Both concern modern-day Machiavellis, both hang off powerhouse performances by their leading men (Kevin Spacey and Kelsey Grammer), both brilliant.
24 June MamaFeral kids with a demon Mom reintroduced to society by a punk Jessica Chastain and a grumpy Jaimie Lannister. Guillermo del Torro produces. Could be great. It’s not. It’s competent. Jay Freeman
my bleeding-heart bullshit put you off ZDT; it’s certainly of the same calibre as Bigelow’s extraordinary Hurt Locker. Te detective story at its heart is expertly delivered, Jessica Chastain’s Oscar nominated turn drives the film with subtlety and even though you know the ending (unless you’ve been hiding in a cave for a few years, that is) the last act of the film is genuinely nail-biting. I suppose I should be glad that there is neither frat-boy flag-waving nor liberal apologism; I’d feel patronised either way. Maybe its impartiality is its strength. But without some exploration of the feelings this event evoked we’re just rubbernecking, watching how America spent untold lives and money on producing yet another fucking corpse. Tat left me unsatisfied and with a nasty taste in my mouth - unlike the time I tried tomato and ice-cream, which was filling and delicious. Jay Freeman
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