Articles Tagged Fight Club

REVIEW: Choke

There’s a particular moment in David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999) where the disenfranchised male narrator voices an angry tirade against his female counterpart, insisting that “she ruined everything”. Choke, the second of author Chuck Palahniuk’s novels to be adapted for the screen, contains a near identical lament, however to dismiss either film (as some critics […]

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. […]