Tag: sanjayleelabhansali

When you're hanging with a posse who murder, steal, rape and share the bed with the same women and commit every crime imaginable, it's time to reassess your life.  Black is a movie you will not forget once you see...

Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Ram-Leela, a film based loosely on Romeo & Juliet, is perhaps the most stupefyingly gorgeous Shakespeare adaptation ever put on a cinema screen. When I think of Bollywood, I think of bright colors, festive music, overwrought melodrama, physics...

I cannot bring myself to post up the painfully generic Blu-Ray cover of Pierre Laffargue's wonderfully oddball neo-blaxploitation action-fantasy starring French rapper McJean Gab'1 as an on-the-lam Parisian bank robber down in Senegal for a diamond heist.  The best way to...

The Canadian DVD release of Pierre Laffargue's heist film Black is only a couple weeks away on April 9th and is available for pre-order from Evokative Films. But first, why not see if you're as lucky as Black was in the...

It's all about confessions today (after Embodiment of Evil last night I feel dirty). Thanks to Canadian distributor Evokative Films I have had Black for some time now and have been able to watch it more than once. At first,...

A second viewing of Pierre Laffargue's kitchen-sink genre-mash cements the notion that if there is a reasonable successor to John Carpenter, albeit with more global leanings, Laffargue is quite possibly the man. While not as overtly funny as something like...

[OK, so I am not actually in Montreal right now, but in the spirit of the fine programming on hand at this years festival, I had a look-see at Pierre Laffargue's directorial debut, the action crime extravaganza, Black.] Kitchen-sink filmmaking...