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26 November 2009 6:41 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

This week on Clip Joint, AJBee tries to rouse the rabble as he turns the spotlight on cinema's best gangs

In a world that's falling apart – or even just coming apart at the seams a little – we all need others to cling to for support. Strength comes in numbers, but also in togetherness. In cinema we can see that tribal feeling from 2001: A Space Odyssey's prehistoric man to the gangs of 60s Glasgow, or 80s Brighton. The protruding foreheads remain, only the accents alter.

Gangs provide a sense of belonging and identity, as well as protection from foes. They can also exclude, as so many high school-set teen flicks testify. We wrap our modern tribal behaviour in colours and call it sport, which begat other kinds of gangs, too often lionised in modern British cinema. But gang culture is common to every echelon of society, from the streets …

26 October 2009 12:30 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

I've been hoping to see Temuera Morrison get a role where he could be as intense and amazing as he was in Once Were Warriors. Star Wars sure didn't provide it; nor did Couples Retreat. Could Tracker be the one to do it? With Morrison working opposite Ray Winstone in a chase film set at the turn of the century in New Zealand, I'm hoping so. Empire has two new character portrait shots of Winstone and Morrison as the two leads of the film. Winstone plays Arjan, a South African guerrilla fighter and vet of the Second Anglo-Boer War, who accepts a bounty contract to hunt a Maori seaman named Kereama (Morrison). The latter is accused of killing a British soldier. As Empire describes it, "what follows is a cat and mouse pursuit through the varied landscape of Nz with both hunter and huntee testing their bushcraft and wits against …

- Russ Fischer

2 articles from 2009