Articles by James Keast

Life of Brian: The Immaculate Edition

Terry Jones

PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2008

The Monty Python crew’s best film — the biblical parody Life of Brian — scores a sweet two-disc issue with this newer, cheaper Immaculate E...

Lost: The Complete Third Season

PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2008

Now that everything that’s ever been on television is available for perusal, the critical knives against a serialised narrative come out fa...

Zodiac: Two-Disc Director's Cut

David Fincher

PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2008

Given the years of commitment invested by the protagonists of true crime film Zodiac, which concerns the famed San Francisco serial killer...

Cloverfield

Matt Reeves

PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2008

Regardless of how one might feel about the experience of watching Cloverfield — a reaction that’s likely to include nausea due to the extre...

There Will Be Blood

Paul Thomas Anderson

PUBLISHED Jan 4, 2008

Eccentric actor Daniel Day Lewis ¾ despite being one of the most acclaimed and honoured working today ¾ doesn’t say yes to very many movies...

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Directed by Jake Kasdan

PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2007

The parody film is a tough genre to pull off. Since the invention of the form, arguably with the Zucker brothers’ Airplane (a take-off on ’...

The Savages

Tamara Jenkins

PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2007

There are so many moments of heartbreaking truth in writer/director Tamara Jenkins’ film The Savages (her first since her debut Slums of Be...

Big Love: The Complete Second Season

PUBLISHED Dec 19, 2007

HBO has become the gold standard of quality television; unfortunately for its legions of fans, its home entertainment division is developin...