Letterboxd — Your life in film

Despite his iconic status Superman has often struggled to adapt to life on the silver screen. Ignoring the comic book delights of the first two films, DC’s most enduring creation has failed to soar at the box office and even the Midas touch of Christopher Nolan’s guiding hand seems incapable of stopping the character’s turbulent cinematic journey. Following Bryan Singer’s lifeless and dull love letter to Donner’s original film, Warner Bros. have attempted to bring the Godly spectacle back to…

My Mother was and is the most important part of my life. But, a year ago I fell in love with a girl. She loved me with all her heart. Then, she left me. My heart was broken, bleeding. I was blinded. Blinded from all the wonders of the world. I was losing touch with all the happiness around me. I felt severe guilt when I accidentally smiled. I thought it was fate, that such sufferance should befall me. I…

An Open Letter to Ryan Gosling,

Hey Bro.

So, first off, I'd just like to say that I really enjoyed your performance in this film. Had a real satisfying 'postmodern man with no name' kinda vibe to it. Nice one. Not so much with the Gangster Squad thing. I guess that was probably one of those projects that looked better on paper, huh? Hey, you win some, you lose some. I haven't seen The Place Beyond The Pines yet, but…

An explosion of imagination and visual ingenuity, Man of Steel manages to feel like the future of cinema and an instant classic all at once. It follows the bare bones of the source material, then injects a strong dose of modernity and eliminates the duality between Clark Kent the journalist and Superman. The early reviews for this film are polarized for all the wrong reasons. Something that's been slowly building over the last few years has finally come to a…

Before I start this review, I’d like to say the following: If you liked or even loved the film, that is fine. I frankly envy you. This is a film I wanted to love. But I didn’t, for reasons I will go into during this review.

Previous to this rewatch, I had last seen The Dark Knight Rises at the midnight premiere. The idea of a filmmaker finishing off a comic book trilogy and summing up their run of a…

My ticket stub says that I saw Silver Linings Playbook but it can't be the same film everyone else has seen. It just can't be. This one was supposed to be charming, enjoyable, fun even. It won the TIFF Audience Award. It was supposed to have great characters. Cooper and Lawrence were supposed to have given wonderful performances. DeNiro, it was said, was back. Jackie Weaver, wait, was she in this?

The film I saw was bland and boring. I…

What a triumph. Worthy of all the praise it has been getting and then some.

I was baffled by how moved I was by this film. I generally do not like this type of 'boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love against all odds' storyline. And even though this is essentially just that, there is so much more to it.

This is a character driven piece and we are given a host of superbly written protagonists, who are…

Wow.

It doesn't happen often that all elements of what comprises film reach such a high level as with The Master. It brushes with perfection on so many an occasion which left me in complete awe for everyone involved in making this, but mainly because of the three main offenders; Phoenix, Hoffman and Anderson.

Paul Thomas Anderson is unmistakably a unique, powerful and resounding voice in cinema. Whenever he creates, something happens among lovers of film. Whenever he speaks through…

I pride myself on being able to watch any film; no matter how bad, depraved or boring it may be, I always make a point of getting to the end. Perhaps it is my competitive spirit or deep rooted masochistic tendencies but I hate the thought of a film beating me. Yet one film did get the better of me, a film that has been gnawing away at my very soul ever since. 96 weeks have passed since that fateful…

"Are you effing stupid?"

That is an actual line of dialogue in this movie. I didn't bleep myself out. Fuck. Ass. Cunt. Bitch. See? I have no problem typing swears.

I am getting real tired of your shit, Syncopy. Christopher Nolan seriously needs to step back, take a deep breath, and go fuck himself. Leave the superhero films to people who understand superheroes. That goes for you too, Mr. Snyder. And you, David S. Goyer. You should all be ashamed…

Being white, middle class and in high school during the ‘90s you’d think I would be able to find common ground with the white, middle class ‘90s high school students in The Perks of Being a Wallflower but it couldn’t be further from the truth. This indulgent, facile and deeply irritating coming-of-age drama is little more than a checklist of teen problems expressed with little insight or originality. The teenage years are a complicated period in most people’s lives. First…