Brady Corbet Archives

Thunderbirds (2004)

Rating: ★

Sep 21, 2004Hi-Tech Rescue Organisation/TV Series Remake

This live-action film version of the cult Gerry Anderson puppet series is a disaster. Great effort is made to replicate the look of the original but the film is killed by the choice to rewrite everything as a modern formula kid’s movie

Director: Jonathan Frakes

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Anthony Edwards, Bill Paxton, Brady Corbet, …

Category: Science Fiction

21 September 200422 August 2021 by Roog

Funny Games U.S. (2007)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 26, 2008Sadism and Torture

Michael Haneke's English-language remake of his earlier home invasion film has a sense of pointlessness to it. But in following the original so closely, it also cannot help but work where it did

Director: Michael Haneke

Actors: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, …

Category: Horror

26 October 200824 October 2025 by Roog

Melancholia (2011)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 20, 2011Depression and the End of the World

Lars von Trier’s exploration of his depression continues in this nihilistic end of the world film. It is bleak and relentless but the characters are opaque in their motivations. Somehow I prefer von Trier back in agent provocateur mode

Director: Lars von Trier

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgård, …

Category: Science Fiction

20 November 20117 January 2025 by Roog