REVIEW: Jumper

“From the Visionary Director of The Bourne Identity”, so reads the promotional tagline on one of the pre-release posters for Doug Liman’s Jumper. Call it my unremitting critical cynicism but when it comes to ‘visionary directors’, the name Liman, seems strangely out of place with the likes of Welles, Hitchcock, Bergman, Kurosawa, Marker, or Fellini. […]

FEATURE: Looking Forward to the Past

Ever since George Lucas decided it’d be a good idea to take us back to a ‘longer time ago’ in a galaxy ‘further away’, Hollywood has been increasingly overcome with prequel fever. Yes, barely a moment had passed since our realisation that Darth Vader was an annoying adolescent with poor acting skills that we noticed […]