Articles by Chris Gramlich

Unsane

Blood Run

PUBLISHED May 1, 2005

While it’s currently in vogue for hardcore, metal and cock rock bands to reform in a last ditch effort to avoid real work and relive past g...

Heat Special Edition

Michael Mann

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

A decade since its theatrical release and Michael Mann's sprawling, hyper-stylised cops/robbers drama/chess match is just as strong as the...

Killwhitneydead

So Pretty So Plastic

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

While KillWhitneyDead’s debut EP, Inhaling the Breath of a Bullet, was a competent if uninspired metalcore debut (in their defence, it was...

Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut

Richard Kelly

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

The nature of great art in any medium is to pose questions, invite discourse and provoke radically different interpretations. It is also se...

Deadwood: The Complete First Season

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

While all the HBO glory continues to go to heavy-hitters such as The Sopranos and Six Feet Under, their "next gen" series may not as of yet...

Constantine

Francis Lawrence

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

The key to any successful adaptation is to, obviously, successfully adapt it from its source material (in this case DC/Vertigo comic Hellbl...

Cursed

Wes Craven

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

Living up to its moniker, this film was indeed cursed from the outset. One could point to the constantly moving release dates, the producti...

Crimson Rivers: Angels of the Apocalypse

Olivier Dahan

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

Written by Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) and starring Jean Reno, the pairing of the principals behind the excellent and criminally overloo...