Although the sword-and-sorcery subgenre has experienced something of a revival of late, there is a glaring lack of evidence — aside from HBO’s Game of Thrones — to suggest that this has been a good thing. Days would surely be sunnier had Clash of the Titans, Season of the Witch and Your Highness never existed, but exist they do, [...]

If there is one film this year that I have no real right to complain about being let-down by, then Jesse Eisener’s throw-back to exploitation cinema Hobo With A Shotgun must surely be it. Evolved from the fake trailers that won a competition to play in front of the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino 2007 film Grindhouse, it is a move that — in the simplest sense of the phrase — delivers [...]

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Introducing Cut Print Review’s Video Reviews, a weekly YouTube segment where I’ll be reviewing an upcoming film with a tinge of insight and plenty of goofy humour. If that sounds right up your alley, then tune in to my first installment where I review the new Judd Apatow-produced comedy Bridesmaids ahead of its [...]

Like Gran Torino or About Schmidt, Get Low offers its elderly star a role to immerse himself in that not only acknowledges his advanced age, but makes it an essential element of his character. Robert Duvall, now 80 years old, plays Felix Bush, a gruff old hermit living in the backwoods of 1930s Tennessee. He keeps to himself and is content to have no friends, although [...]

It’s hard to determine what to make of Lars von Trier and the way his mind works. He’s a filmmaker like no other, oozing intrigue and always leaving a trail of controversy in his wake. At this year’s Cannes film festival, von Trier’s ill-conceived comments regarding Adolf Hitler have caused a bigger stir than his apocalyptic feature Melancholia, a film that doesn’t quite match the explosive sentiment of his [...]

Matthew McConaughey is back playing a defence attorney, fifteen years after the John Grisham adaptation A Time to Kill. But his earnest, cleancut persona in that film has been ditched in favour of a charismatic but morally dubious sleazeball in The Lincoln Lawyer. As the numberplate on his gargantuan car/mobile office (the “Lincoln” of the title) testifies, any client who signs on with him is all but guaranteed a final [...]

As general popularity of cinema decreases over time because of inflation in costs and the emergence of pirating, many local theatres are forced out of competition and cinephiles are denied the chance to further their education. This stretches out as far as Uruguay, where the love for film is rich but support for their cinemateca is less than what’s necessary to keep it afloat. As this Montevideo theatre faces eviction, [...]

Science fiction is a genre renowned for its futuristic visions and cerebral concepts, but at the heart of many famed sci-fi fables is a classic romance: Han Solo and Princess Leia (Star Wars), Neo and Trinity (The Matrix), Decard and Rachel (Blade Runner), and even WALL-E and EVE (WALL-E). With that in mind, it’s understandable why long-time writer, fist-time director George Nolfi (The Bourne Ultimatum) decided to [...]