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From Dystopia to Myopia: Metropolis to Blade Runner
From Metropolis to Blade Runner, representations of the city often suggest a bleak view of the future. Has the image of the city become more dystopian? Does culture provide us with an imaginary future,...
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I, Robot
Director, Alex Proyas; Starring Will Smith, Bridgit Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood; 20th Century Fox, 114 minutes The ‘I’ in ‘I, Robot’ takes on a whole new significance in Alex Proyas’s disappointing take...
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The Wind That Shakes The Barley
The Wind That Shakes The Barley is set in Cork in 1920-1, and opens with a community radicalised by an armed British presence that reacts violently when they dare to play a hurling match (a game whose...
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Twelve and Holding
Twelve and Holding is the engaging second full-length feature from director Michael Cuesta following the critically acclaimed L.I.E. Most of the screen time is carried by its young, able and sometimes...
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The East End on Film
Various directors, East End Film Festival, London OK, so my girlfriend and I trundled along early one Sunday afternoon to a little cinema on a quiet Kingsland High Street in Dalston, Hackney. There was...
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This rotting metropolis
In this 1988 adaptation of Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s own influential cyber-punk manga classic, the likes of Mad Max, A Clockwork Orange and Blade Runner quickly come to mind. But most striking of all is how...
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