David Watson is a screenwriter, journalist and 'manny' who, depending on time of day and alcohol intake could be described as a likeable misanthrope or a carnaptious bampot. He loves about 96% of you but there's at least 4% he'd definitely eat in the event of a plane crash. Email: david.watson@filmjuice.com
A blackly comic, modern day Western set in the Wild West – of Ireland, The Guard is Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) of the Galway Garda, a country copper whose days are
It’s the sort of title for a film that, whatever your taste in cinema, will warrant a heavy response. Severe distaste, high fives, intent curiosity; love or hate it, Hobo with a
Director Gregg Araki is many things. Subtle has rarely been one of them. Provocative and undeniably talented, he is something of a rare beast in today’s cinematic landscape; he has somehow managed
About a third of the way into Lars von Trier’s end of the world drama Melancholia you start hoping the world will end and kill all the protagonists. About an hour in,
In times of social and economic crisis, we tend to turn to speculative fiction. There’s an explosion in the sales of sci-fi and fantasy; we’re desperate to escape from our realities.
The ‘80s were a strange time to grow up. Thatcher was in power and we still had miners to go on strike. Greed was good. The Cold War got won. MTV still
People will tell you that you should always write what you know. Admittedly they’re normally the kind of people who couldn’t write the f-word on a dusty Venetian blind. Ask yourself; do
Sometimes it’s necessary to take a pinch of salt with a film. To suspend your disbelief. For Rise of the Planet of the Apes you’re going to need about 3 litres of
Two words guaranteed to strike fear in my dark little heart are Iranian Cinema. Tortuously slow and often willfully obtuse, over the years I’ve sat through more Iranian films than I care