Finalium Films

Animal Kingdom

Type Animal Kingdom into the Rotten Tomatoes search bar and you will very quickly discover that it gets a whopping 97% and has been hailed by the critics as a modern day masterpiece with a Shakesperian tone. As if that wasn’t already proof enough that you have been wasting your evenings by not hunting it out, I am now going to detail what it is about this thoroughly fantastic and original film that makes it stand out head-and-shoulders above the More

Knowing When to Say Goodbye to Your Car

Cars are highly personal things and, as such, to say that we get attached to them is something of an understatement. Like a faithful dog, they’ve accompanied us along some of our best adventures and seen us through times both good and bad.

US car support is something we come to expect as a given, and for the most part we’re happy to ignore it when things go wrong. Unfortunately, More

Movie Review: This Is England

This Is England (2006) was a great British film that many people will surely remember for a long time to come.

Written and directed by acclaimed British director Shane Meadows (Dead Man’s Shoes featuring Paddy Considine), it tells the story of England up North in the 1980s, in a time when the only thing anyone cared about – if you believe Meadows’piece – was bad hair-cuts and beating the daylights out of anyone else against a piece of pine furniture More

The Devil’s Advocate

The Devil’s advocate remains one of the masterpieces in the thriller/horror movies production. Hardly is there a movie that embodies so much of meaning, old believes, uncomparable fictious moments and flawless cast and director. Motives from the middle ages religious thoughts are related to modern day bussiness world, demonic faces from the belives of the old christian writings are presented in the 20th century modernised society. Relationships are described, love presents in the movie, good and evil meet, justice and More

Toy Story 2

As the world steps up its excitement for the release of the new Toy Story film - Toy Story 3 - our household has been catching up, and watching Toy Story 2 for the first time since it was released 10 years ago! The film is excellent, much better than I remember it being when I saw it as a kid. It was agreed that all the best children’s films work well for adults and children alike; they work on More

300

300 is a movie reproduction of the real events that took part in Ancient Greece revealing the political and social circumstances in the centuries when the Persian Empire was advancing to the lands of Europe where their only rival were the ancient cities of greece.

The movie is a history one, directed by Zack Snyder, starring famous actors like G. Butler (king Leonidas) and Lena Headey (king Leonidas'queen). Adapting the movie accroding to a graphic novel with the same name, More

Watch it: Waking Tall

I don’t know much about Dwayne Johnson, aka ‘The Rock’. I know he has scary looking muscles, he used to be a wrestler and he is now a celebrity / actor of sorts. Until last week I didn’t much care, either, and I had no intention of seeking his films out. I didn’t rate him as an actor (his new profession of choice after apparently every single other) and I didn’t expect to be seeing him on the screen any More

The Dreamers

One of my favourite films of all times is the Dreamers, a movie by Bernardo Bertolucci that pays humble homage to Bande à part, an equally great film by Jean-Luc Godard. It is centred around a group of cinephiles during the 1960s, in particular the ’68 student riots. Our heroes and heroine (played by the ever lovely and pre-famous Eva Green) are forced to come into very real contact with their ideals, sexual identities, and personal strength at a time of civil unrest. At the very beginning of the movie our main protagonist Matthew speaks about sitting close to the screen.

I was one of the insatiables…

the ones you’d always find

sitting closest to the screen.

Why do we sit so close?

Maybe it was because we wanted

to receive the images first…

when they were still new,

still fresh…

before they cleared the hurdles

of the rows behind us…

before they’d been relayed back

from row to row, spectator to spectator…

until worn-out, secondhand,

the size of a postage stamp…

it returned to the

projectionist’s cabin.

And in my opinion, that’s how films are supposed to make you feel.