There Will Be Blood (DVD) Reviews

I think I may be in the minority, but I hated this film. I mean, really hated it. I enjoy most films, and have never really found a film that wasn't watchable, then I saw this. It was showing on the ferry during a recent trip to Bruges with my family, and rather than sitting in the bar, or playing cards or whatever, we decided to go and see ...

It was a tough race in awards season this year with the Coen's A Country For Old Men coming out on top. The other main contender was Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, a film that quite rightly recognized the work of its lead actor Daniel Day Lewis with the Academy Award for Best Actor. The film is set in the late 1800's where ...

Daniel Day Lewis certainly deserved the best actor Oscar in 2008 for his portrayal of oil tycoon Daniel Plainview. Set in the last 19th and early 20th century Plainview begins his career as a struggling silver miner who manages to find his riches through oil with his adoptive son H W. When a young man comes to Plainview with knowledge of land ...

Sitting here listening to the soundtrack as I write this, looking back on my experiences of watching this film, I'm wondering how I can possibly keep my review from simply turning into an undiluted rant of superlatives and non-stop praise. But then again why should I? I'm in awe of everything about this film. If you're prepared to ...

Recent months have proved to be interesting in cinema. There has been an unexpected explosion of artistic freedom in many films, and in this time there seems to have been a revival of the Western genre. The revival, however, has been unconventional, since the "Westerns" in question arguably don't constitute as westerns, namely the ...