Monthly Archives: August 2005

Gus Van Sant, Elephant

By Steen | August 8, 2005

A film which takes its cue from the various high school shootings in the US, but unlike documentaries like Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine there is no direct indictment of anyone or anything other than the culture in general. The film has no intentions of answering any questions or investigating what went wrong in the [...]

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Tim Story, Fantastic Four

By Steen | August 6, 2005

Another superhero film, which seems to have become all the rave lately. Unfortunately, this one does not cut it like the last one I saw Batman Begins. The story is tepid, the acting is lack-lustre and worst of all it does not capture one of the greatest villains ever Dr Doom.
Unlike a number of superhero [...]

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George A. Romero, Land of the Dead

By Steen | August 5, 2005

It could also be called Barbarians at the Gates. In the trailers, the speaker announced that Romero returns to the genre that he invented which is of course a half-truth. There have been plenty of zombie films before Romero, such as I Walked with a Zombie. However, the use of the zombie as one of [...]

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William Boyd, Brazzaville Beach

By Steen | August 2, 2005

This framenarrative tells the story of a woman, Hope, at three different points of her life. Science plays a big part of the story, which is the main reason for my interest in it. The two main narratives, the third is simply the frame which envelops them, alternative between first and third-person perspective, creating an [...]

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