Before he became obsessed with a bespectcled child with a scar on his head, Rafe, sorry, Ralph Fiennes starred in a Kathryn Bigelow (with a little help from her now ex, James Cameron) film, which was a dystopian vision influenced by the 'then-times' riots and Rodney King killing in LA. So, as the clock ticks ever onwards to Doomsday, so do we witness the countdown to a new year to remember in Strange Days.
"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them." - Pauline Kael
Friday, 14 September 2012
Friday, 7 September 2012
Midnight Video - Doomsday Clock 7: Nosferatu (1979)
Although time is irrelevant to the undead, we find ourselves celebrating the minute hand striking the 6th minute to Midnight on our Doomsday countdown by taking a look at intrepid and idiosyncratic Bavarian film maker Werner Herzog's remake of F. W. Murnau's iconic Nosferatu.
Friday, 31 August 2012
Midnight Video - Doomsday Clock 6: Tears of the Black Tiger
Verdant, viridian and violently pink: Tears of the Black Tiger is a Thai genre mash up that defies expectations. A musical, western, melodrama with more than touch of the ol' ultraviolence a la Peckinpah; it marks the 7th minute to midnight on our Doomsday Clock countdown.
Friday, 24 August 2012
Midnight Video - Doomsday Clock 5: Tenebrae
As luck would have it Dario Argento is the special guest at this year's Frightfest and like the planets aligning, Midnight Video brings into orbit the moon of Tenebrae casting it's shadow across the face of 80s Rome like the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock.
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Midnight Video - Doomsday Clock 4: Stone
This week it's literally a race against the (Doomsday?) clock as we go undercover in one of the toughest Australian biker gangs ever to have graced the silver screen in Sandy Harbutt's frank and refreshing tale of camaraderie and two wheels: Stone.
Friday, 10 August 2012
Doomsday Clock 3: The Wickerman (2006)
Another minute bites the dust as we bring you another instalment of the Doomsday Clock.
Pretty much universally panned the world over, Neil Labute's 2006 remake of cult British classic The Wickerman gets the Midnight Video treatment, but can we overcome the general consensus and find anything remotely positive about this Cage-rage vehicle?
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Friday, 3 August 2012
Doomsday Clock 2: The Brood
It's now 11 minutes to Midnight and this episode sees us boil and blister as our tiny egos are put through the wrangler by psychoplasmic maestro Dr Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed) in David Cronenberg's familial chiller: The Brood.
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