haiku

Movie Rantings [...click orange button]

• Yes
  The art of film at it's best - sublime cinematography, soundtrack, casting, character studies, script and poetry, all delivered with impeccable timing. Beautiful. […]
• Lila Says
  Refreshingly engaging film portraying identifiable characters that remind you of that exciting, uncertain time of life where the torments and thrills of living are everything. (i.e. before we began relating vicariously to the superhyped Hollywood glamstudwhore superhero formula of most popular film.) This is a young, edgy, honest film for people who apprecia […]
• The Island
  SPOILER: A cloned movie about clones who figure out their scene "those are not your real memories - they're implants" and the film ends with an expected, but limp kiss. Entirely unoriginal, lines and concepts stolen from all your favourite sci-fi movies. But if you're an adrenalin junky who loves watching new ways to blow up expensive car […]
• Illuminata: Special Edition
  A self critical, perfectly imperfect parody of the human drama, at once ragged and genius in it's sublime musings and witty study of eccentrics, dramatics, cynics and lovers, peering between the veils of life, love and the stage. Playfully symbolic sets and lighting form the back drop to a surreal folly. To take it too seriously like the critics who dis […]
• The Fountain
  After such poor reviews and short run time at the theatre, I didn't expect much (the best way to see a film of course). Having read something about the use of organic liquid processes instead of CGI for cosmic screen effects though, I was curious. It turned out to be a film of such extraordinary visual beauty and vision, resonant of our deeper earthly y […]