Film Review: Things to do In Bruges before you die.

Martin McDonagh does well in his first feature length to capture the small town atmosphere of Bruges using it’s landscape and architecture to give the ethereal backdrop needed for the purgatory analogy most people draw from the situation Ken (Gleeson) and Ray (Farrell) are in. The opening scene has a good whiff of “Waiting for Godot” and it isn’t too hard to make the link between the madness of the Purgatory painting Ray and Ken muse over... Read More

The ice sheets may be falling apart, but it just doesn’t have the same buzz as a mushroom cloud

There were a couple of stories in the paper the other day that hung together well if you knew how to look at them. First the bad news – according to Francesca Martin of the Guardian: “The American painter and photographer Richard Prince has just sold the rights to a film pitch. The story – which falls somewhere between Lord of the Flies and Lost – follows a group of people who are the last surviving humans on earth.” Read... Read More