[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00L3O0BCE][/pullquote] An English adaptation of a French graphic novel by a South Korean director, Snowpiercer is an apocalyptic future tale whose journey to release is almost is crazy and interesting as the film itself. Released in most countries in 2013, it never … [Read more...]
Review: Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Bohemian Rhapsody [pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B00IKMC0YO][/pullquote] Cult directors don't get much more cult than Jim Jarmusch and who better than the bequiffed auteur to breathe new life into that tiredest of genres, the vampire film. … [Read more...]
Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B007C3TVEY][/pullquote] Based on a 2003 novel of the same name, by Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2011 film directed by Lynne Ramsey. BBC Films acquired the rights to the book in 2005 and attached Ramsey after establishing Steven Soderbergh as … [Read more...]
Review: The Beach (2000)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004VLKXG0][/pullquote] The Beach stands as a turning point in Danny Boyle's career. It is the first big budget film that he directed and it is the one with more controversy and problems on set than any other. The first problem was the fall-out between Boyle and … [Read more...]