Rick O'Shea

I don’t write movie reviews anymore. Not because of a lack of love for cinema, just because it’s a time thing and so many people do it so much better than I do. I ramble to friends in private and in the office. There are exceptions, and Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is very much one of them. The only problem is trying to marshal the plethora of things I felt in the hour after I saw it last night. The plot is simple to start if labyrinthine by the time you get to the end – on a future Earth (we […]

I’m not going to tell you anything about Let The Right One In as I think if you’re going to see it you should let the story unfold for you blind as much as you can, don’t even watch the trailer. All you need to know is that it’s a supernatural movie with kids set in the suburbs of Stockholm. I hesitate to brand it horror because these days that means something radically different than it used to mean in the 1970s, the decade this movie so obviously belongs in. It belongs in the same family tree as the bastard child […]