Tag Archives: Drive

Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2010-2019

Posted on January 31, 2020 by Sam S-P

We never did decide on a name for this decade that didn’t sound completely stupid did we? Thank goodness for the insight and escapism that cinema offers because the world has been heading for disaster at an alarming rate as … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Feature | Tagged 13th, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, A Ghost Story, Avengers: Endgame, Baby Driver, Best of, Blade Runner 2049, Drive, Ex Machina, For Sama, I Lost My Body, Jojo Rabbit, Nina Forever, Our Little Sister, Parasite, Private Life, Room, Searching, Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, Tell Me Who I Am, The Farewell, The Hunt, The Illusionist, The Nightingale, The Rider, The Two Popes, We Are the Best!, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Wild Rose | Leave a comment

Review: The Neon Demon (2016)

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Sam S-P

The fashion industry really is taking a kicking from film this year. Far from the silly and playful taunts in ZOOLANDER 2 and ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS, now Nicolas Winding Refn goes for the jugular with THE NEON DEMON. Being a Nicolas … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review | Tagged Abby Lee, Absolutely Fabulous, Alessandro Nivola, Bella Heathcote, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Christina Hendricks, Cliff Martinez, Desmond Harrington, Drive, Elle Fanning, Film, Horror, Jena Malone, Keanu Reeves, Movies, Natasha Braier, Nicolas Winding Refn, Only God Forgives, Roger Ebert, Russ Meyer, Ryan Gosling, The Neon Demon, Zoolander 2 | 3 Comments

Review: The Nice Guys (2016)

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Sam S-P

Watch THE NICE GUYS for a wonderfully shambolic Ryan Gosling teaming up with Russell Crowe playing a tank in a leather jacket. Remember it for Shane Black’s unique and sharply self-aware take on film noir. Black has been Hollywood’s go-to … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review | Tagged Angourie Rice, Black Comedy, Chinatown, Drive, Film, Film noir, Get Carter, Half Nelson, Iron Man 3, Keith David, Kim Basinger, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Movies, Mystery, Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Shane Black, The Long Goodbye, The Nice Guys, Ty Simpkins | Leave a comment

Review: Nightcrawler (2014)

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Sam S-P

NIGHTCRAWLER skewers the news industry mercilessly, perhaps the most brutal deconstruction of the business since Sidney Lumet’s superlative NETWORK. It’s hard-hitting and often shocking, but it also works as an example of the very murkiest of black comedies. Louis Bloom … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review | Tagged American Beauty, Black Comedy, Bourne, Cliff Martinez, Dan Gilroy, Drama, Drive, Faye Dunaway, Film, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Newton Howard, Movies, Network, Nightcrawler, Prince of Persia, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, Sidney Lumet, Tony Gilroy | Leave a comment

Radio 1 Rescores Drive: Spoiling Through Experimentation

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Sam S-P

DRIVE is, at this moment in time, my favourite film of the last ten years. Nicolas Winding Refn’s neo-noir completely and utterly blew me away, and its superlative, moody electro soundtrack was a big part of why it worked so … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Feature, Film Review, Music | Tagged Bastille, BBC, Carey Mulligan, Chvrches, Cliff Martinez, College, Desire, Drive, Electric Youth, Eric Prydz, Film, Kavinsky, Laura Mvula, Lovefoxx, Movies, Music, Neo-noir, Nicolas Winding Refn, Oscar Isaac, Radio 1 Rescores Drive, Radio1, Ryan Gosling, The 1975, TV, Zane Lowe | Leave a comment

Greatest Oscar Injustices 2004-2013

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Sam S-P

The selection of the Academy Awards is an unfair, flawed system. Everyone knows that. Not long to go now before this year’s awards, so here’s my pick of the biggest mistakes the Academy made over the last decade, and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Feature | Tagged 12 Years a Slave, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, American Hustle, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin, Black Swan, Brave, City of God, Colin Firth, Coraline, Drive, Fernando Meirelles, Film, Forest Whitaker, Gary Oldman, Gravity, Half Nelson, Heath Ledger, Inception, Infernal Affairs, Jean Dujardin, Laika, Little Miss Sunshine, Martin Scorsese, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Movies, Once, Oscars, Paranorman, Pixar, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Ryan Gosling, Steven Spielberg, The Artist, The Dark Knight, The Departed, The Fighter, The Hunt, The King's Speech, The Last King of Scotland, The Return of the King, The Social Network, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tomas Alfredson, Up, War Horse | Leave a comment

The Obligatory End of the Year Top 10 (2013)

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Sam S-P

2013 has been a bit of a downbeat year for the film world, as we’ve lost a depressing number of talented individuals before their time – Roger Ebert, Richard Griffiths, James Gandolfini, Karen Black, Paul Walker. Peter O’Toole and Ray Harryhausen passed … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Feature | Tagged A Field in England, Alfonso Cuarón, Behind the Candelabra, Ben Kingsley, Ben Wheatley, Brad Pitt, Christopher Nolan, Cloud Atlas, Dan Aykroyd, Daniel Brϋhl, Daniel Day-Lewis, Danny Boyle, David Lynch, David Mitchell, David Strathairn, Drew Pearce, Drive, Edgar Wright, Film, Gravity, Guy Pearce, Inception, Iron Man 3, James Cameron, James Gandolfini, James Spader, Jim Rash, Karen Black, Kristin Scott Thomas, Liam James, Lincoln, Marc Forster, Matt Damon, Matthew Goode, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Douglas, Minority Report, Movies, Nat Faxon, Nicolas Winding Refn, Only God Forgives, Park Chan-wook, Paul Walker, Peter Jackson, Peter Morgan, Peter O'Toole, Ray Harryhausen, Reece Shearsmith, Richard Griffiths, Rob Lowe, Robert Downey Jr, Roger Ebert, Ron Howard, Rush, Ryan Gosling, Sandra Bullock, Shane Black, Simon Pegg, Steven Spielberg, Stoker, The Avengers, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Lord of the Rings, The Way Way Back, The World's End, Tolkien, Tom Tykwer, Trance, Vithaya Pansringarm, Wachowskis, World War Z | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: Drive

Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2010-2019

Review: The Neon Demon (2016)

Review: The Nice Guys (2016)

Review: Nightcrawler (2014)

Radio 1 Rescores Drive: Spoiling Through Experimentation

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