The world of the Director is a boy’s game. There are just a handful of female directors who are producing work and only a handful of them are actually appreciated in their fields. What does that mean for the state of women in film? If you let out a loud roar of laughter then you fully understand where I am coming from. Women are largely portrayed wrong, vapid cut outs of a dreaming man who sees the female population as serving creature to however they like. That practice is wrong. Not all...

Twelve Monkeys is one of Terry Gilliams most iconic and famous movies. Solidifying him as cult and surreal director, Twelve Monekys depicted a dystopian future in which Bruce Willis, a convict, must jump through time in order to save the world from being ravaged by disease. With an iconic performance by batshit insane Brad Pitt (his character that is) and some truly vivid imagery, Twelve Monkeys is a soly original movie with a wonderful ending that is shocking and sad. Or it’s not, because it...

If there was ever a case against remakes, especially Tartan Asia Extreme to English remakes, then the complete movie flop Oldboy by Spike Lee should be first evidence. Released today, the American version of the Manga comic has already been panned and reactions across the ponds don’t seem to be doing it any favours. And why? Why is it that Oldboy isn’t doing so well when given English language and famous actors? Well, mainly because the original was just so iconic and brilliantly done. It is...

As mentioned before, one of the most famous French movies to come out in recent years is Amelie. It has such a prolific response globally that even language classes have shown this movie as a whimsical treat, (though perhaps without the sexed up scenes.) Amelie has launched star Audrey Tautou into a modest overseas fame. Even now, the name Amelie is hanging to the lips of all like the stain of a fine French wine with a possible Broadway production coming our way. Yes, quaint, quirky and...

There is a plethora of French movies other than Amelie. That may sound harsh and obvious on the Foreign Fancies page, but there are people out there who seem to demean foreign language to just their subtitles. There is a definite language barrier when it comes to non-English language movies, confining their brilliance to the independent cinemas and failing to translate movies to their genuine greatness. A lot of people only tune in to foreign movies because there were forced to in language...