herbiehancock

No 320 - Braveheart Director - Mel Gibson I have to say, that the initial outlook for this film was not good. As it began with Wallace's childhood I found it pretty shit.... quite contrived in its set up. I looked down at the DVD.... Great.... Luckily, Brian Cox comes and interrupts proceedings with his crazy one eye and then we skip to the future and to Gibbo himself playing Braveheart . In a role which probably eclipses all his other roles . Even What Women Want So times are heard. And despite the Scottish having perfect teeth times are tough. The English seem very rapey , and the Scots are just supposed to lie back and take it. This is all thanks to King Edward Longshanks who comes off as a cruel and merciless tyrant. Cracking out savage laws like Primae Noctis (never used by the ACTUAL King Edward) and coming out with some marvellously cutting one-liners: Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. The dead cost nothing. Harsh.... Whilst Edward I is painted as a cruel bastard, h...

No 454 - 28 Days Later Director - Danny Boyle So, somewhere in the cruel laboratories of Cambridge Sylvester Stuart is Clockwork Orange- ing chimps for some reason (seriously... what is the experiment?) and the activists are not happy. Thusly they release the rage infected monkeys and all the shit goes down. So begins this amazing little apocalypto -drama. For all the visceral introduction, cut editing, strobey lights and salivating primates, the post title moments are wonderfully still and quiet. Cillian Murphy (beautiful face wild wild eyes) plays Jim who wakes up naked in an isolated hospital. Looking at his hair he either had some kind of head surgery or he is a trendy Shoreditch wanker . What appears to have happened is that Jim has woken up in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse (even though they're Rage infected.... and not zombies) - this fact is beautifully portrayed by shots of Jim walking through abandoned London. I know this has been done in America with I Am ...