Articles in European Movie Reviews
Wilderness (2006) Movie Review
“Wilderness”, Michael Bassett’s follow-up to his World War I horror movie “Death Watch” can best be described as “Lords of the Flies” meets “Friday the 13th”. The film concerns an intrepid band of delinquent teens who, after one of their own commits suicide due to bullying, are sentenced to become one with nature at a [...]
August 23rd, 2006 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreBeowulf & Grendel (2005) Movie Review
Retelling old tales filtered through modern sensibility seems to be the thing to do these days. The recent films “Troy” and “King Arthur” are examples of this, where the mystical/supernatural elements that made the original stories so compelling are stripped away in favor of 20th Century sociopolitical incongruities like emancipated women and warriors in touch [...]
August 7th, 2006 | Gopal | 0 comments | Read MoreFootsteps (2006) Movie Review
I am not certain about the cultural prevalence of snuff films in countries outside the U.S. , but I am rather certain that, even in this debauched land, snuff remains a seedy underground taboo which rarely, if ever, pokes its horrific organs through a hernia in the mainstream. Sure, [...]
August 1st, 2006 | Zan | 0 comments | Read MoreBrothers of the Head (2005) Movie Review
In no way do I wish to encourage film makers, or film goers, to indulge in any more “mockumentaries”. “Spinal Tap” is an inanely brilliant comedy, but beyond that, all the fake interviews where people act serious but say stupid shit and the humor is dryer than the deserts of the Sudan is just too [...]
June 22nd, 2006 | Zan | 1 comment | Read MoreKidulthood (2006) Movie Review
“Gritty” is a word used far too often to categorise films. It appears that anything vaguely realistic or that plays outside of the regular rom-com or blockbuster format of Hollywood is labelled “gritty”, regardless of importance or quality. To give Menhaj Huda’s “KiDulthood” such a label would be in contradiction to [...]
June 18th, 2006 | Andrew Mackenzie | 5 comments | Read MoreThe Proposition (2005) Movie Review
“Australia . What fresh hell is this?” So ponders the grizzled Captain Morris Stanley (Ray Winstone, “Sexy Beast”), a British Colonial Marshall, as he casts his gaze over the uncompromising and barren wasteland we now know as the Australian Outback. After a nasty gunfight, Stanley has managed to capture two members of the infamous Burns [...]
June 13th, 2006 | Gopal | 0 comments | Read MoreEmpire of the Wolves (2005) Movie Review
As is usually the case with movies that involves people trying to figure out who they are, and discovering that all they know was never real to begin with, the journey ends up being more exciting than the destination. Such was the case with “The Bourne Identity”, where following Bourne as he tries to uncover [...]
June 8th, 2006 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreFeed (2005) Movie Review
“Feed” marks somewhat of a change in direction for Brett Leonard, whose last outing was the ridiculous comic book adaptation “Man-Thing”. Although the director has dealt with the perils of technology before in the likes of “Virtuosity” and “The Lawnmower Man”, here he takes a far more grounded and less fantastic approach, aiming for shocks [...]
May 9th, 2006 | James Mudge | 0 comments | Read MoreSkrypt (2004) Movie Review
I can safely say that “Skrypt” is the only Austrian film I’ve ever reviewed, seen or known to have existed. And, from what I can tell, the Austrian film market isn’t exactly booming. However, being from Scotland myself, criticising another country’s film industry is literally the equivalent of throwing stones [...]
April 29th, 2006 | Andrew Mackenzie | 0 comments | Read MoreThe Libertine (2004) Movie Review
When I first saw commercials for “The Libertine”, not only the title, but the way Johnny Depp looked made me think of a cheesy metal band that I secretly enjoy called Cradle of Filth, and by the end of the film, the overall likeness between Depp and ghoulish Cradle of Filth lead singer Dani Filth [...]
March 23rd, 2006 | Zan | 0 comments | Read MoreThe Cremator (1972) Movie Review
“The Cremator” is a re-release of Czech director Juraj Herz’s unsettling 1968 effort about a deeply macabre man who slowly becomes a monster. The film has been enjoying somewhat of a revival of late, having been screened at a number of festivals, and even though it is now nearly forty years old, it has lost [...]
March 15th, 2006 | James Mudge | 0 comments | Read MoreCache aka Hidden (2005) Movie Review
“Hidden” is the latest film from German auteur Michael Haneke, director of “Code Unknown” and “Funny Games”. The film has already garnered a multitude of awards, including the best director and Jury prizes at Cannes . This is perhaps unsurprising, as the film is a textbook example of European art house [...]
February 13th, 2006 | James Mudge | 0 comments | Read More














