Articles by Alan Bacchus

Turner Classic Movies Sci-Fi Adventures

PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2010

It was the '50s, the height of the cold war, nuclear testing is at its peak and Joseph McCarthy is running wild. Out of this fervour and pa...

Adam

Max Mayer

PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2010

A lovable, shy engineering geek with Asperger's Syndrome falls in love with the cute primary school teacher neighbour sounds either like an...

The Rocket

Charles Binamé

PUBLISHED Dec 16, 2009

The successful Maurice Richard film from 2005 gets another DVD release from Alliance films, this time dressed up with the accompanying NFB...

My Effortless Brilliance

Lynn Shelton

PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2009

Lynn Shelton's Humpday was a great film, perhaps the most audience-accessible of this new wave of low rent, semi-improvised Mumblecore film...

Il Divo

Paolo Sorrentino

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2009

The story of seven-time Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti's controversial leadership in the latter stages of his 50-year service, whi...

Natural Born Killers - Director's Cut

Oliver Stone

PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2009

It's about time this disc arrived. In fact, why Warner decided to release the now irrelevant and obsolete theatrical version of this film o...

Tulpan

Sergei Dvortsevoy

PUBLISHED Sep 25, 2009

We've never seen a landscape as dull as this make for such peculiar and inspired cinema. We're in the desert of Kazakhstan, which is even r...

Hazard

Sion Sono

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2009

Shinichi is a restless Japanese youth bored of his saccharine lifestyle in suburban Tokyo and looking for excitement. He picks up a handboo...