Showing posts with label Shame. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shame. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Shot/Reverse Shot: Episode 19B - 2012 Part 2


It's the second part of the SRS end of year review and, as in any good trilogy, it's the darkest part. Yes, here's where we look at the year's worst films, going over the bad, the disappointing and the divisive, particularly when it comes to our drastically different reactions to the likes of Shame and Ted. I also get to wax lyrical about how much I hate the twist in The Woman In The Fifth, and Joe has to remember the trauma of watching Red Tails.

It's all all right, though, as this is just the dark ebb before the final episode, in which we fall over ourselves to praise everything that was good and pure in cinema in 2012. That one will be up on Friday, hopefully.

As always, you can stream the podcast using the link below, or preferably (from our point of view) you can subscribe using iTunes. If you choose the later, please rate it and leave a review, because that stuff really helps us gain more lovely listeners.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Film Review: Shame (2011)


Shame, the second film by artist-turned-director Steve McQueen, is a technically dazzling examination of Brandon (Michael Fassbender), a sex addict whose carefully cultivated routine of Internet pornography and meaningless one-night stands is thrown into disarray when his younger sister (Carey Mulligan) comes to stay with him. It's important to mention Shame's technical prowess up front since its meticulously planned tracking shots, languid pacing and evocation of New York at night, great though they are, only serve to mask the fact that the film they are in service of is shallow, banal and dull.

ShareThis