By Simon Miraudo June 12, 2014 The Two Faces of January, based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1964 novel and set in 1962, comes from an era in which espionage thrillers needed only an enigmatic man in a linen suit to arouse suspicion. That might still be a recipe for dramatic tension in 2014. Just not this […]
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Dead ringers – Everybody Has A Plan review
November 5, 2013 
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By Richard Haridy November 5, 2013 There is nothing inherently wrong with a narrative that withholds its protagonist’s motivations. This can be a successful strategy in building intriguingly portentous atmospheres, but it can also cause immense frustration in viewers unable to accept the whys of a character’s behaviour. Everybody Has A Plan is trying for […]
Continue readingEastern Promises 2 scrapped by Focus Features
August 15, 2012 0 Comments
Eastern Promises 2 is no more. While doing press for Cosmopolis, director David Cronenberg told The Playlist that Focus Features have pulled the plug on a sequel to his Oscar nominated gangster flick. “We were supposed to start shooting ‘Eastern Promises 2’ in October…. [But] It’s done… If you don’t like it talk to James Schamus at Focus. It was […]
Continue readingA Freud in need – A Dangerous Method review
July 31, 2012 0 Comments
A Dangerous Method – Starring Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, and Viggo Mortensen. Directed by David Cronenberg. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. A Dangerous Method arrives on DVD and Blu-ray August 1, 2012. It’s on for Jung and old in David Cronenberg‘s A Dangerous Method, where pioneering psychoanalysts go head to head and discover that a Freud […]
Continue readingRambling – On the Road review (Sydney Film Festival)
June 13, 2012 6 Comments
On the Road – Starring Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, and Kristen Stewart. Directed by Walter Salles. By Simon Miraudo. On the Road played the Sydney Film Festival. It does not yet have an Australian release date. I had endeavoured to finally read Jack Kerouac’s legendary, Beat Generation-defining novel On the Road before watching the long-awaited film […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: On The Road
March 12, 2012 1 Comment
The trailer for Walter Salles‘ adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s legendary beat generation novel On The Road has arrived online. Though it’s taken more than 50 years for a film version of Kerouac’s rambling road-movie to hit cinema screens, Salles’ take looks promising (and the fact he helmed The Motorcycle Diaries helps too). Garrett Hedlund and Sam Riley star […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: A Dangerous Method
June 24, 2011 0 Comments
The trailer for David Cronenberg’s psychological drama A Dangerous Method has appeared online – how does it make you feel? The film marks the third collaboration for Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen, whose previous films A History of Violence and Eastern Promises delivered gritty and violent stories. A Dangerous Method looks to take a less violent […]
Continue readingUniversal want Kristen Stewart for Snow White; Viggo Mortensen for Huntsmen
January 27, 2011 1 Comment
We heard in December that Relativity Media’s The Brothers’ Grimm: Snow White was in competition with Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman. Already pitting Charlize Theron and Julia Roberts against one another for the role of the Evil Queen, we wondered then who might Hollywood have pegged for the other two leading roles: the dashing […]
Continue readingEase on down – The Road review
May 24, 2010 0 Comments
The Road – Starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Charlize Theron. Directed by John Hillcoat. Rated MA. Originally published January 27, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. Why do cannibals travel in groups? If the world as we know it does indeed come to an end, and people are driven to eating their fellow man to stay […]
Continue readingEase on down – The Road review
January 27, 2010 4 Comments
The Road – Starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Charlize Theron. Directed by John Hillcoat. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Why do cannibals travel in groups? If the world as we know it does indeed come to an end, and people are driven to eating their fellow man to stay alive, what is the advantage […]
Continue readingThe Road is "the most important movie of the year."
May 13, 2009 3 Comments
source: esquire.com The very lucky Tom Chiarella over at Esquire has seen Aussie director John Hillcoat‘s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Road, and has unsurprisingly showered it with praise. Chiarella declares The Road to be “the most important movie of the year“, while also calling it a film you “will not […]
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