Considered one of Spielberg’s lightest efforts, Catch Me If You Can is actually a deeply melancholic film that explores the need to face reality and deal with pain head-on… …Read more »

•  13 January 2013  •  1 note

In part 65 of Deconstructing Cinema Ian Roberts takes a look at the final scene in Steven Spielberg’s Munich and what it tells us about the September 11th attacks. …Read more »

•  13 January 2013

David Fincher leaves us to ponder the thought that it’s not through technology that we’ll be safe in a post-9/11 world but through human ingenuity, compassion and bravery. …Read more »

•  13 January 2013  •  1 note

As one of the films of the new Hollywood revolution Easy Rider became the celluloid time capsule for the hippie dream while it was coughing up its own cancerous demise. …Read more »

•  13 January 2013

Based on Chris Mullin’s 1982 novel A Very British Coup, Secret State sets out to explore the relationship between the British press, the government and the banks. …Read more »

•  5 January 2013

The Ghost Writer, directed by Roman Polanski and adapted from the novel by Robert Harris, is the story of a British Prime Minister caught in a media storm over war crimes. …Read more »

•  5 January 2013

In 1994, a teenager went missing from his home in Texas. In 1997, a 23 year old Frenchman managed to convince the grieving family that he was their lost son. …Read more »

•  5 January 2013

American business magnate Donald Trump is the focus of Anthony Baxter’s expose as attempts to lift the lid on his multi-million dollar golf resort on the Aberdeenshire coast. …Read more »

•  31 December 2012

Eight years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, J.A. Bayona’s real-life disaster film explores the suffering that comes with survival but it’s far too culturally selfish. …Read more »

•  31 December 2012  •  1 note

Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, and the 80s movie, Total Recall sees a factory worker realising he might be a spy in an ongoing war between two nation states. …Read more »

•  31 December 2012

Peter Jackson takes us back to Middle-Earth with J. R. R. Tolkien’s first tale which sees Bilbo Baggins setting off on an adventure with a band of dwarves and Gandalf the Grey. Read more »

•  9 December 2012

Lito Velasco takes a look at a scene from Francis Ford Coppola’s classic film The Godfather as he discusses the idea of choice in part 63 of Deconstructing Cinema. …Read more »

•  8 December 2012  •  1 note

Directed by Jack Clayton with a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby shows us an era of decadence before the fall. …Read more »

•  8 December 2012

Max takes a look at the 1970 film, Patton, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring George C. Scott as the infamous and controversial World War II U.S. General. …Read more »

•  8 December 2012

Tom Six writes and directs this truly fascinating and revolting Dutch film which sees a crazed German doctor stitching three people together to make his horrifying creation. …Read more »

•  4 December 2012