Chronofinchical #3 — The Game (part 2)

A note from the editor — Due to a “clerical” error we wound up with two pieces on David Fincher’s third outing. Not one to overtly exert my editorial power, I thought it only fair to put both articles on the film up. This is the second of the two pieces.

Chronofinchical #2 — Se7en

David Fincher, 1995. US.

David Fincher’s Se7en carries the high honour of containing what is perhaps my favourite scene in the whole of the cinema. Well, the cinema of the 1990’s at least. It isn’t a scene which is overt or obvious at first sight, with it…

Looking back at Memento

Christopher Nolan, 2000. US.

Christopher Nolan’s chronologically reversed nightmare-psycho-drama really needs no introduction. Neo-noir of the highest order, Memento introduced Nolan to the world as a serious talent for the new millennium, and predated a body…

The Alien Anthology

While much has been said of the Alien series of films, I have to admit from the off that I’m not a huge fan of the series. That isn’t for a lack of trying either, with multiple screenings of each of the films being undertaken at different points throughout my cinema-going life. With the films…

Peeping Tom — Fiftieth Anniversary Reissue

Michael Powell, 1960. UK.

Saturday night saw a very exciting event take place in deepest, darkest Soho, a district which provided locations to such films as Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut Neil Jordan’s Mona Lisa, and, perhaps…

Tetro (2009)

Tetro, 2009. Francis Ford Coppola. US.

Very early on in Tetro one character says to another, “You are like a genius without the accomplishment”, in turn summing up varying attitudes to both the filmmaker and the film star at the centre of Tetro. While totally unwarranted, many…