Posts by: Niall

Liverpool season ticket holder & writer of Football Manager related gibberish for many a year. Watcher of sport, PES Ninja (PSN Network ID = Chatmandu) and all round fool.

Food, Inc.

There have been many documentaries to hit the scene in the past few years that have impacted its audiences in one way or another. Some of become a cultural phenomenon and have hit home especially because it’s been things we have experienced either first handed or we ourselves deem them “important.” Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Super Size Me, and even March of the Penguins are things that we “think” our government places up on top of their priority lists and our filmmakers of today are tackling. I will say this, and I can’t see myself saying it again for some time; this is the most terrifying and important documentary I have seen in years. Read More…

Avatar

Like Peter Jackson and George Lucas, James Cameron raises the level of technical achievement in film making in every movie he makes, and Avatar is no exception. We have set before us a digital masterpiece of beauty and spectacle, where the technology has once again surprised us, but the beauty and imagination of the artists behind it inspires us even more. Now, as before, much of the movie was green screened, but unlike before, it doesn’t matter. When live actors are on the screen, they actually look less real than their surroundings. The idealized Na’vi are sacred, vivid, and real. Live actors are dimly lit, phony profanities in James Cameron’s digital reality. Read More…

An Education

An Education, set in 1960s London, focuses on the life of a 16 year old school girl studying to get into Oxford University. Everything is ticking over nicely for young Jenny (the fantastic Carey Mulligan) until one days she meets the slick talking, sportscar driving David (Peter Sarsgaard) one rainy day after school. Read More…

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