A Clockwork Orange

I adore movies because they encompass the whole world and allow you to titillate a myriad of interests without having to hone in on just one. (Same with writing -- why pick one slice of life when you can write about them all!?) But there's a side-love -- the art that comes out of cinema. Whether it's seeing a director's vision narrowed down to one particular image (David Lynch's photography!), or seeing what a filmmaker inspires in others. It's like having a fan conversation through the eyes. It could invite you to see a film in a new way, or simply pull you back into the filmmaker's world.
Or, to end all of the lead-up: Film-inspired art can inspire some pretty freakin' awesome imagery! The above photo is part of a new exhibit called Stanley Kubrick: Taming Light. Running all this month at the Light House Cinema in Dublin, »
- Monika Bartyzel

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Tom Hardy in Bronson
Photo: Magnet Releasing He was born Michael Peterson, adopted the "fighting name" Charles Bronson, is known as Britain's most famous prisoner and with Bronson director Nicolas Winding Refn has turned him into an entertaining one man show. To that effect, I am sure many will take offense to what is sure to be perceived as the glorification of a notoriously violent criminal and I can't necessarily argue against that opinion. But I enjoyed it nevertheless.
Introducing the audience to various moments of his life, Tom Hardy plays the titular bald brute as we become witness to his time as a bank robber, violent prisoner, insane asylum patient, bare-knockle brawler, boyfriend, jewelry store thief, prisoner again, hostage taker and inmate artist. It's a winding road and even when it leads to a moment of artistic expression it always seems to end in anarchy.
Whether he's watching a »
- Brad Brevet

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In the not-too-distant future, humanity is so decimated by poverty that people will do anything for money.  An innovative producer gives the poor hope by offering them work as extras in a series of “live death” films where they’ll be stalked by giant, blood-thirsty mechanical monsters.  The job is easy - survive.  
First off, the concept behind Michael Shea’s The Extra is brilliant.  By taking a story like The Running Man to a much darker place, this could’ve been an entertaining read.  But it wasn’t.  I’ve studied Joyce, Milton, Shakespeare, Burroughs, etc and I’ve never come across a work as hard to understand as The Extra.  It’s not that the novel is so genius that it’s over my head.  It’s the opposite.  I hate to say this because I’m sure Shea worked painstakingly hard on this, but The Extra is a poorly-written, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Rich Mallery)

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