http://www.filmbanana.com/ Film Banana en Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:38:00 GMT Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:38:00 GMT info@filmbanana.com info@filmbanana.com http://www.filmbanana.com/the-flock/ A beautiful 17-year old girl is abducted in America's Mid-West and soon it's a race against time to save her from her captors. This is the set-up to the Richard... http://www.filmbanana.com/the-flock/#comments http://www.filmbanana.com/the-flock/ Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:38:00 GMT http://www.filmbanana.com/we-own-the-night/ We Own the Night opens with a montage of black and white stills of NYPD officers in action. The realistic photographs detail various (apparently real) crime scenes involving drug runners... http://www.filmbanana.com/we-own-the-night/#comments http://www.filmbanana.com/we-own-the-night/ Mon, 31 May 2010 04:19:00 GMT http://www.filmbanana.com/over-her-dead-body-review/ It's not often that the star of a film is killed within the first five screen minutes, but in the case of Over Her Dead Body Eva Longoria Parker exits... http://www.filmbanana.com/over-her-dead-body-review/#comments http://www.filmbanana.com/over-her-dead-body-review/ Tue, 18 May 2010 06:23:00 GMT http://www.filmbanana.com/paranoid-park-a-van-sant-masterwork/ Paranoid Park commences with angel-faced Alex (Gabe Nevins) casually entering a memoir into a notebook. His words are transmitted to the viewer through his voice-over narration, an obvious signal that... http://www.filmbanana.com/paranoid-park-a-van-sant-masterwork/#comments http://www.filmbanana.com/paranoid-park-a-van-sant-masterwork/ Tue, 11 May 2010 06:08:00 GMT http://www.filmbanana.com/other-boleyn-girl/ A weak-willed nobleman, Thomas Boleyn (Mark Rylance), egged-on by his ambitious brother-in-law, Thomas Howard (David Morrissey), decides to offer up his two daughters to the fickle King of England in... http://www.filmbanana.com/other-boleyn-girl/#comments http://www.filmbanana.com/other-boleyn-girl/ Thu, 06 May 2010 02:31:00 GMT http://www.filmbanana.com/the-walker-paul-schraders-political-drama/ While chaperoning a senator's wife to an illicit meeting, Carter Page III (Woody Harrelson) happens upon a murder victim's body. When he agrees to be the fall guy to keep... http://www.filmbanana.com/the-walker-paul-schraders-political-drama/#comments http://www.filmbanana.com/the-walker-paul-schraders-political-drama/ Sun, 02 May 2010 23:09:00 GMT http://www.filmbanana.com/the-nine-review/ John August has never directed a feature film before, although he has authored several notable productions including Big Fish (Tim Burton, 2003) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton... http://www.filmbanana.com/the-nine-review/#comments http://www.filmbanana.com/the-nine-review/ Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:03:00 GMT http://www.filmbanana.com/april-fools-day/ With the advent of the torture-porn genre of horror film (Hostel, Saw, Wolf Creek, et al) the slasher film has now become passe in Hollywood. It is not enough to... http://www.filmbanana.com/april-fools-day/#comments http://www.filmbanana.com/april-fools-day/ Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:11:00 GMT http://www.filmbanana.com/impulse-review/ Robert Louis Stevenson's schizophrenic-nightmare novel The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde has been adapted to the screen in various guises. Perhaps the most famous version of the... http://www.filmbanana.com/impulse-review/#comments http://www.filmbanana.com/impulse-review/ Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:24:00 GMT http://www.filmbanana.com/closing-the-ring/ The narrative of Closing the Ring (Richard Attenborough, 2007) is intricately assembled. In fact, the manner by which the film employs a cross-cutting plot that alternates two different time-lines and... http://www.filmbanana.com/closing-the-ring/#comments http://www.filmbanana.com/closing-the-ring/ Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:50:00 GMT http://www.filmbanana.com/gerry-a-desert-odyssey/ Gus Van Sant has specialised in giving his audience films with simple surfaces and complex undercurrents. Paranoid Park (2007), Last Days (2005) and Elephant (2003) each told natural tales in... http://www.filmbanana.com/gerry-a-desert-odyssey/#comments http://www.filmbanana.com/gerry-a-desert-odyssey/ Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:02:00 GMT http://www.filmbanana.com/coeurs-private-fears-in-public-places/ Coeurs has gone under another title by which it was released in cinemas - Private Fears in Public Places. The two titles give some idea of the tone of the... http://www.filmbanana.com/coeurs-private-fears-in-public-places/#comments http://www.filmbanana.com/coeurs-private-fears-in-public-places/ Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:23:00 GMT http://www.filmbanana.com/hunting-gathering/ Initially we meet the three main characters of Hunting & Gathering in isolation, a reflection of their emotional states which are free from the encumbrances that come with human connections... http://www.filmbanana.com/hunting-gathering/#comments http://www.filmbanana.com/hunting-gathering/ Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:16:00 GMT http://www.filmbanana.com/ivan-the-terrible-parts-1-2/ The problem with Ivan the Terrible is it is in sound and anyone who knows Sergei Eisenstein will know that he hated sound!. in fact, he hated it almost as... http://www.filmbanana.com/ivan-the-terrible-parts-1-2/#comments http://www.filmbanana.com/ivan-the-terrible-parts-1-2/ Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:09:00 GMT http://www.filmbanana.com/this-sporting-life-review/ Lindsay Anderson's This Sporting Life is often characterised as a 'kitchen sink' drama, a representational form marking the tail end of the British new wave of social-realist cinema. Yet, while... http://www.filmbanana.com/this-sporting-life-review/#comments http://www.filmbanana.com/this-sporting-life-review/ Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:19:00 GMT