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The very last installment of the program known as The Naked Lunch will be more like the Last Supper, as it takes on its new timeslot of Monday 9-11 one hour early for a year-end three-hour blowout of epic proportions, and gets ready to take on a new, more ambitious form in the [...]
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Darren Aronofsky – he may look like an accountant, but you couldn’t call his career boring. First he unveils his debut picture, Pi, a sci-fi thriller made for sixty grand, and launches his career in auspicious style. He follows it up with one of 2000’s most hotly debated films, the Hubert Selby Jr. [...]
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BRYAN SINGER:
A Hollywood standby over the last decade and a half, Bryan Singer first came to the attention of most moviegoers with his third film, the labyrinthine crime thriller The Usual Suspects, in 1994. Since then, he’s tried on Stephen King, the X-Men and Superman, and now he’s decided to tackle one of [...]
Episode 79 – European Cinema
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In episode 79 we will review the film Hunger starring Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands, of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who led the 1981 Irish hunger strike and participated in the no wash protest (led by Brendan “The Dark” Hughes) in which Republican prisoners tried to win political [...]
Episode 78 – Danny Boyle special
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One of Britain’s most celebrated breakthrough talents of the ’90s, director and producer Danny Boyle made his name with his acclaimed 1996 adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting. An angry, funny and groundbreaking film about a group of heroin addicts that took a non-judgmental approach to drug use, the film [...]
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Way back in Episode 28, we discussed Krzystzof Kieslowski’s seminal Three Colors trilogy with our resident European film expert, Eduardo Lucatero, and promised to return to discuss the revered Polish master’s earlier work. Well it’s taken forever, but we finally got our act together to discuss A Short Film About Love, A Short [...]
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A director who is capable of crafting both deeply unconventional independent films and mainstream crowd-pleasers, Gus Van Sant has managed to carve an enviable niche for himself in Hollywood. Since debuting in 1985 with Mala Noche, Van Sant has become one of the premiere bards of dysfunction, populating his films with a parade [...]
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Episode 75: Gays Gone Wild
This week sees the arrival of the twenty-first edition of Montreal’s Image+Nation fest, featuring a wide-ranging survey of new films that touch on LGBT themes. To celebrate, we’ll be tackling a few of them, including XXY, (which served as Argentina’s submission for the Academy Awards last year), as well [...]
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Rumours spead that the the new film by Baz Lurhmann, Australia, may be a box office disaster with squabbles over the length of the movie and even its ending. That is until Oprah went on her show raving about how it was the best film she had seen in years. Studio heads no [...]
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Episode 73: I Was a Teenage Vampire
Teenage girls everywhere are frothing at the mouth over Twilight, the Vampire teen-romance flick adapted from Stephanie Meyer’s best-selling books. Ricky and Simon are in rough terrain here, being completely outside of the film’s target audience, so our guest Ally, [...]
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In recent years there has been a flood of movie remakes and reboots. The majority of these films have been seen in the Horror genre. However action films are not too far behind in numbers, with recent reinventions of Get Smart, Charlie’s Angels, The Terminator series and even Indiana Jones.
Most are outright horrible [...]
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With 1964’s Goldfinger, the third James Bond story to reach the screen, the “Bond formula” had reached maturity. Screenwriter Richard Maibaum, a participant in the scripting of the previous two movies, Dr. No and From Russia with Love, had identified those elements of the series that audiences liked. So, for this film, his [...]
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Alex Gibney seems to be drawn to calamity. The documentarian’s three major features so far focus on volatile topics and controversial events. His newest, currently in theaters, is called Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson, and it illustrates the troubled journalist’s path from political rabble-rouser to caricature. We’ll be essaying [...]
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The Naked Lunch takes a long, heavy look at the world of heavy metal through the films of Sam Dunn, Canadian filmmaker and anthropologist (and metalhead). We take a look at both his original doc, Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey, as well as its followup, newly available on DVD, Global Metal. To help us [...]
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Tune in to our yearly Halloween tradition here at The Naked Lunch as we count down the top 31 horror films of the past 31 years. Also reviews on two Canadian horror films, The Changeling and Black Christmas.
The carved pumpkin lit by a candle inside is one of Halloween’s most prominent symbols in [...]
