Cinema Autopsy
Blog URL http://blog.cinemaautopsy.com/
Located Melbourne, Victoria Australia
Tags Cinema, Films, Film, Film reviews, Movies, Movie reviews, DVDs, DVD reviews, Cinema Autopsy
Cinema Autopsy is a collection of Thomas Caldwell's film reviews and other writing about film from over the past 10 years. New pieces go up at least 3 times a week.
Latest Blog Posts
- Film review – A Serious Man (2009) on Nov 21, 2009 in 4 stars Film reviews A Serious Man Barton Fink Cinema Autopsy Coen brothers Ethan Coen Joel Coen Michael Stuhlbarg Punch-Drunk Love Sari Lennick
For 25 years now Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading) have been making stylish and meticulously constructed films that reveal their deep love and knowledge of cinema. Frequently working in the screwball comedy and film noi...
- Film review – The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) on Nov 19, 2009 in Film reviews Catherine Hardwicke Chris Weitz Kristen Stewart New Moon Robert Pattinson Stephenie Meyer Taylor Lautner Twilight
The second cinematic outing for the emo/tween Twilight franchise continues the love story between18-year-old girl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and 108-year-old-in-the-body-of-a-17-year-old vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson). Edward is still ref...
- Film review – Amreeka (2009) on Nov 17, 2009 in 3 stars Film reviews Alia Shawkat Amreeka Cherien Dabis Cinema Autopsy Hiam Abbass Melkar Muallem Nisreen Faour Palestinian cinema
Muna Farah is a divorced Palestinian woman dealing with the increasing daily frustrations of living in the West Bank. It is 2003, the year America invaded Iraq, and Muna is fed up with the daily border checks and the realisation that there is little...
- Dennis Hopper interview: The Long Ride on Nov 14, 2009 in Interviews Andy Warhol Dennis Hopper Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood Easy Rider James Dean Mad Dog Morgan New Hollywood Paul Newman Peter Fonda Pop Art Rebel Without a Cause
From Rebel Without a Cause to Easy Rider and now Crash, Dennis Hopper’s acting career spans six decades. But he is also a painter, photographer, writer and art collector. As he explains to Thomas Caldwell, it’s all about being creative. When I sp...
- Film review – The Boys Are Back (2009) on Nov 11, 2009 in 3 stars Film reviews Australian cinema Clive Owen George MacKay Greig Fraser Julia Blake Nicholas McAnulty Scott Hicks Simon Carr The Boys Are Back
p>Shine and Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts director Scott Hicks returns to Australia with this UK/Australian production based on Simon Carr’s memoir The Boys Are Back In Town. Clive Owen plays Joe Warr, an English sportswriter living w...
- Film review – 2012 (2009) on Nov 8, 2009 in Film reviews 2012 Amanda Peet Chiwetel Ejiofor Cinema Autopsy John Cusack Morgan Lily Oliver Platt Roland Emmerich Thandie Newton
p>If you want to make a film about the end of the world then Roland Emmerich really is the director that you want in charge. Emmerich has created scenes of mass destruction previously in films such as Independence Day, which took its inspiration and...
- Film review – Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) on Nov 6, 2009 in Film reviews Capitalism Cinema Autopsy Michael Moore
p>Writing persuasively about a Michael Moore film seems almost pointless as most people already have pretty strong preconceived ideas about how they feel about him, his politics and his style of documentary making. If you unquestioningly love everyth...
