All Articles by Niall Browne

THE RAIN Review – One of David Carradine’s Last Films

Posted: August 17th, 2009 at 12:30 pm

One of the great things about writing about films is that on occasion it gives you an opportunity to see films before others. I recently had the chance to see The Rain, a low budget independent horror film from writer-director Douglas Schulze. I must say – I was impressed. Not only by the quality of the film but also by the originality of the plot and structure. So far the film has been getting raves on the horror festival circuit and at this point it doesn’t have any distribution. However, with a bit of luck all that will soon change. More after the jump:

DEFIANCE Region 2 DVD Review

Posted: May 16th, 2009 at 6:27 pm

In the past year or so there have been a slew of holocaust dramas released in cinemas that attempt to show the second world war from a different cinematic perspective. Defiance is another film to add to the list, and the “gimmick” that director Ed Zwick has decided to employ is that the characters in Defiance are Jews fighting for their freedom – rather than being helpless victims like they are in most WW2 films.

Defiance follows three Polish-Jewish brothers -Tuvia (Daniel Craig), Zus (Live Schreiber) and Asael (Jamie Bell) whose family have been killed by the invading Nazi forces, they’ve taken refuge in the woods and on one of their searches for food they discover a young boy whose family has been killed. Soon word spreads of their deed and soon more Jews come in search for them and soon a community is set up in the woods and the brothers become local legends.

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