NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK
Burn After Reading (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)
The Coens are the most fascinating filmmakers in Hollywood today. Its a bold statement, but on further inspection it makes sense. To make films as thematically strong as Fargo, Miller's Crossing & No Country For Old Men are great individual acheivements on their own merits, but the Coen's have almost made an entirely different career path for themselves with Intolerable Cruelty, The Hudsucker Proxy and now Burn After Reading.
It's a throwaway pleasure, which arguably would almost deem it unnecessary. But that would be a disservice to what is quintessentially the most dumb, farcical and inspired comedy cast in recent memory.
Rental highly recommended.
Available on DVD & Blu-Ray.
Other releases this week:
Taken (dir. Morel)
This is the film after which Liam Neeson can add BAD-ASS onto his CV. Luc Besson is the writer here and to be fair his track record including Leon & the Taxi films suggest a sprightly yet ultimately generic thriller. Qui Gon battles Albanians in Paris. Farfetched fun for all.
Gomorrah (dir. Garrone)
Gomorrah is thrilling, unsettling cinema. It's definately not a film for everyone. With stories of Italian underground crime remaining unresolvingly ubiquitous, it is difficult not to delve into cliche. However, the film retains an unrelenting tenure on the viewer right until the final credits with its fresh directive on the the mafia, Camorra.
Thematically, I would compare Gomorrah to Fernando Mereilles' masterstroke 'City of God' although in conception Gomorrah is more night to City of God's day.
BARGAIN DVD OF THE WEEK
28 Days Later (dir. Boyle)
One of the best British horror flicks of the last few years (alongside 'The Descent'). Danny Boyle helms the story of a Britain which is taken over by a potent virus which enrages and ravages the lives of those infected. It's an emotionally powerful film that thrills and scares in equal measure and the bargain of the week @ PLAY.com for under four pounds.
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