Blog posts by year and monthOctober 2010
Posts (12)
Forgotten Gem: Into the Night
This week Andy Serkis and Simon Pegg are grave robbing serial killers Burke and Hare in the new movie from John Landis, the man behind the Blues Brothers and American Werewolf in London. But way back in the mid-80s Landis was just one of a pantheon of movie directors to play cameos in his own ta...
Instant Reaction: Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky, the director with Pi, The Wrestler and The Fountain to his credit, is about to give us Wolverine Origins 2 with Hugh Jackman. But before he takes the comic book blockbuster dollar he has taken us on a trip upmarket, to the ballet, and what a trip it is.
5 live review: Paranormal Activity 2
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Paranormal Activity 2. Go to Mark on 5 Live for more reviews and film debate.
Possession is nine tenths of the gore
Credit where credit's due, as far as I'm concerned the ideas in Lars von Triers's Antichrist were already explored with gruesome brilliance (and added cephalopod) in Andrzej Zulawski's 1981 movie Possession starring Sam Neill and featuring a staggering performance by Isabelle Adjani. With the lo...
Documentary fiction and The Arbor
The Arbor, an extraordinary new movie from the Artangel stable explores a new way of getting to the truth of a real life story via the methods of screen fiction.
5 live review: The Social Network
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews The Social Network. Go to Mark on 5 Live for more reviews and film debate. (Please note this content is only available to UK viewers)
You Talking to Me
That time has come around again when I get to talk about what you are talking about on the Kermode Uncut blog, which this week includes the delights of the cinemas of your childhood and the terrors of Buried, Devil and Eat Pray Love (Vomit).
Let Me In, or Let the Right One In?
As you probably know, there's a Hollywood remake by the Cloverfield guy of my favourite film of last year, Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In. But how does it measure up? Can it measure up? And did you ever see an American remake of a European movie that did measure up?
Nasties: A Lesson From History
As a younger man I was among those who delighted in the era of the Video Nasty. For me and many like me it was an opportunity to expose ourselves to some of the worst and the best horror movies of the 70s and 80s, from Driller Killer to Cannibal Apocalypse. But as revealed in Jake West's captiva...
Your invitation to the Mayo and Kermode film review...
The Kermode and Mayo Film review show will be broadcasting live from the Phoenix Cinema on Friday, 8th October. Tickets have now sold out but you can watch the show online at BBC.co.uk/5live. There will be special guests, a live online debate with 5 live's Connect service , plus the reviews you love. Curtains open at 2pm. Enjoy the show.