LongRoad FILM STUDIES -- Reviews

Michael Radford' s 1984 ( October 1984), is set in a war struck, totalitarian London and follows the story of Winston Smith (John Hurt ...

The film ‘Bullet in the Head’ is a one of a kind film directed by legendary director John Woo. In most films there are happy endings, but no...

Film review ‘Breathless’ (À bout de souffle) ‘Breathless’ (1960) is a ground breaking piece of cinema, which along with other French new wav...

Insomnia I got the film Insomnia out of the library. I found the film really interesting as it was not as I expected it to be. The basic plo...

Amelia Dickens AS Film Studies project For my AS Film Studies project, my group and I decided to produce our segment of filming in the genre...

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Review “Sex, Murder, Mystery. Welcome to the party” Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black, 2005) is really all you want to se...

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a film that is based on coincidences, fate and the consequences of being in places at certain times. It follows the s...

Written and directed by Shane Black of Lethal Weapon fame, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) is rather hard to define in terms of genre. K.K.B.B mi...

Kiss Kiss bang bang was a film directed By Shane Black in 2005, The film includes stars such as Robert Downey JR, Val Kilmer and Michelle mo...

In the early 90s, Pedro Almodóvar subverted popular culture, flamboyant aesthetic and dark humour to create dramatic, stylish cult Spanish f...

Christopher Nolan's memento has blown critics away, been nominated for Oscars and left all audiences scratching their heads and ready to...

From director Christopher Nolan, a unique and intriguing thriller that begins with the ultimate act of revenge and back tracks through time ...

Ryan Johnson's film Brick is as contemporary low-budget Neo Noir film that shows a group of high school students got mixed up in drugs. ...

'The Brick' (Johnson 2006) is a contemporary neo noir film set in an American high school. Many aspects of the film, mirror film noi...

when comparing the two films, The Big Sleep and Brick, you will see similarities between the main characters. Marlow (The Big Sleep) an olde...

Brick (Johnson 2006). This american film does not conform to the stereotypical high school movie, it uses all the typical settings and langu...

the big sleep is a film noir about a detective attempting to solve a black mailing case. Brick is a neo noir with a student attempting to fi...

'The Big Sleep' (Hawks 1946) comparing with 'Brick' (Johnson 2006) Both of these films are a murder mystery's and hav...

Hello, this is Ram & Rachel writing our review comparing and contrasting "The Big Sleep" & "Brick." Personally w...

A Review Comparing & Contrasting The Big Sleep (Hawks 1946) + Brick (Johnson 2006) Both films compared together show they have similar f...

the edukators is a film that follows the lives of a close group of friends with strong political beliefs against the wealthy of the country ...

Edukators (2004) is a german film about two people trying to start a popular socialist revolution by intimadating the rich and scaring them ...

The Edukators, (Weingartner 2004) was made to show the political injustice that lies within the world today. The fact that people can afford...

Weingorter creates a cool and refreshing insight into the political views and lives of the youth today. weingorter successfully produces an ...

A good film at best. Although the sound is good and the plot is plausible and understandable, I would give this film a 67% rating because of...

The Edukators (2004) Hans Weingartner The Edukators is a story of a 3 people tied together by friendship and political views. The 3 of them ...

The film is based around politics and crime, with the 3 main characters (The Edukators) participating in extreme socialist views. The politi...

The film seemed to have two distinct halves. One half was The Edukators (Jan Jule & Peter)Edukating the bourgeoisie of Berlin, Germany b...

Director Hans Weingartner launches a stinging attack on Germany's bourgeois in his 2004 film, The Edukators. The story focuses on the li...

A story of a young German trio trying to make a difference in Capitalist Germany. They cleverly raid affluent businessman's houses, re-a...

I think this film directed by weingartner in 2004 was an interesting film on 3 german youths who moved furniture around in well off peoples ...

The Edukators is a a story following a group of three young political revolutionists (The Edukators) who educate the rich capitalists in soc...

The Phantom of Liberty Review “The Phantom of Liberty”, also known as “Le Fantome de la Liberte” in it's native France, was released in ...

Jackie or ‘Jackie big tits’, is Aches girlfriend and has moved to Spain with her boyfriend and friends, Gal and Dee. Jackie plays an import...

Dallow, henchman Dallow is the character the undergoes the biggest change in the film, his morality wins over his criminal instincts The ma...

An unfortunate journalist that finds himself caught up with Pinkie Brown due to a story he published that went against Pinkie's cronies....

Ida Arnold is a very inquisitive person; she works as a clown and has a loud voice/laugh. Her role in the film is to play detective to find ...

Don logan is a character with many different sides to him for example he seems a force full character then the next minute hes talking to hi...

Teddy is a determined ruthless and cold hearted criminal who will thinks that anything worth stealing can be stolen. Teddy places the bigges...

Aitch is a retired gangster who is in an extended holiday in the Costa Del Sol with his fellow ex mobster Gal. He is an instigator of Don Lo...

Spicer is an ageing smalltime gangster, henchman to Pinkys gang. Spicers function in the plot is experience to the gang he plays a vital par...

Razors is a character that is loyal to Harold Shand and is an asset to Shand's business. He is one of Harold Shand's henchmen and hi...

'Jeff', played by Derek Thompson, plays sidekick to prosperous English gangster 'Harold Shand', played by a young Bob Hoskin...

Don Logan is a mentally disturbed gangster from London. Don's function in the narrative is an important one. He destroys the normality o...

Dead mans shoes is a British thriller about an ex S.A.S soldier that returns to his hometown to find out his brother is dead. He gets reveng...

Shane Meadows hinted at a darker side with his second feature A Room For Romeo Brass, but he gives full vent to the potentially violent impu...

This is a 2004 movie directed by Shane Meadows and stars Paddy Considine and Gary Stretch this film is about a disaffected soldier (Considin...

dead mans shoes was a brilliant film and a good example of Shane Meadows work. The film is a film about revenge and justice when Richard com...

Set in the northern suburbs of England. Dead Man Shoes stars the ex-soldier, Richard (Paddy Considine) who returns to his hometown in order ...

'Dead man's shoes' a Shane Meadows film about a soldiers revenge on a gang of thugs who terrorized his mentally disabled brother...

'Dead mans shoes' plays with the audiences emotion , From : sad , anger , comedy . Keeping the audiences attention throughout the fi...

Death Race Directed by Paul W.S Anderson 2008 Death Race (a remake of the 1975 cult classic Death Race 2000) sees Jason Statham taking part ...

This 2006 movie is based on the amazing novel by Christopher Paolini, it is about a boy of 15 called Eragon who finds a blue stone whilst hu...

This is based around 4 Children (Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Kenny)who get in to an R rated movie from Canada, this movie has very strong langua...

This is a 2008 movie starring Simon Pegg and Kirsten Dunst, it is based on the Novel of the same name, it is about a British Writer (Pegg) w...

I watched this movie after being hassled by a friend because apparently it would make me cry. And i like a movie that can bring on the water...

Film Review: Fargo Info: Length: 98 mins Rating: 18 Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen This being my first Coen brothers films, I wasn’t sure w...

I felt the beginning of the film started of well straight into the action and getting an insight into liams family life.And instantly put in...

A subtle and bold mixture of views are expressed in this semi-autobiographical story written and directed by Bruce Robinson, told through th...

Cloverfield is the latest film from acclaimed director Matt Reeves and much-admired producers J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk. Initially, film wa...

Gangs of New York is artistic. It has one of my favourite actors, Daniel Day-Lewis against a least favourite, Leonardo DiCaprio. The writers...

Munich tells the story of the black september and the munich games in 1972. A group of palestians takes a group of israeli athletes hostage ...

Staring Heath ledger and Orlando Bloom doing Irish accents. Enough said girls. On a serious note, the film was disappointing with a weak scr...

Fargo's brilliance lies not only with its way of thrilling its audience but also adding a slight comical effect to quite a serious numbe...

Mean Streets is one Scorsese's earlier films and is traditional to the/ typical gangster style. Throughout the film parts are hard to fo...

The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan's absolute stunner of a follow-up to Batman Begins, is set out as a comic book movie. Contai...

The film opens with an idyll on a Pacific island where two soldiers have gone AWOL and live with tribal people who exist in a pre-lapsarian ...

Sweet sixteen is a Scottish film showing life for young people in Glasgow. Its main character, a 15 year old boy is growing up on a council ...

A failing TV network in America notices how it gains more ratings after a mentally unstable news reporter has a nervous breakdown on live te...

The Blade 2 film obviously being a sequel to the first Blade film is not the type of film were you have to see the first to understand the s...

The film Desperado is based on an old style western except it has been mixed around a little and developed into a 21st century western. It f...

My summer of love is a British film about a two girls friendship which becomes intense. As their friendship grows, they begin to stay over a...