Author Archives: Rob Ager

For film reviewers wishing to write negative reviews there’s no shortage of source material. As a general rule of thumb my own reviews and film analysis are geared toward great movies, the logic being that by drawing attention to quality … Continue reading →

I’d never even heard of this film until I was emailed about it last week. Triangle is a reality-bending brainteaser film, similar in style to Shutter Island. It failed at the box office despite strong reviews, great direction and a … Continue reading →

About a year ago I watched the spanish zombie film REC. It was a fun piece of straight zombie entertainment with some interesting variations on the genre. REC employed the handheld camera narrative device also found in Blair Witch Project … Continue reading →

As a child I used to watch this excellent sci-fi thriller with my father (video recorders being the new big thing at the time) and I rediscovered the episode a few years ago.  It tells the story of a man … Continue reading →

Top marks to Charles H. Ferguson for producing this film and Matt Damon for narrating and bringing star attention to a project that may have been otherwise ignored. Inside Job isn’t the whole story of finance capitalism (worthless speculation and … Continue reading →

The revolution in animated films continues with Rango, an animated western featuring a cast of desert animals. If it wasn’t for the different production companies, writers and directors associated to the spate of brilliant new animated features it would be … Continue reading →

Children’s animation films draw me to the cinema more often than live action films these days, not for eye candy, but because they’re frequently better scripted, more multi-layered and more intelligent. In the past two years many of my favourite … Continue reading →

I watched Surrogates at the cinema when it was released. Not a perfect film – a little too Hollywood in delivery for my tastes, but it’s packed with excellent ideas relevant to our internet dominated times. For some reason the … Continue reading →

This is an amusing interview. David gives consistently vague answers to the point where we could probably reduce the whole interview to a simple statement of “I refuse to tell you what Mulholland Drive is about.” Lynch responds to a … Continue reading →

Times have changed for the Coen’s. The days of them producing one classic film after another with original storylines of their own appear to have vanished. The Man Who Wasn’t There was the last Coen original storyline that really worked, … Continue reading →