Free to Air 3rd October

This week it's a Halloween double bill with Keanu. First up, The Devils Advocate. It gets surprisingly dark in places, and at times flips between brilliance and the ridiculous but nails some iconic moments.

The sequence of Keanu alone on a street in New York (a key thematic backdrop) is one of my all time favourites and Pacino cut's loose (big time), especially at the denouement. A personal favourite Pacino moment takes place in Chinatown, the whole scene could have been cut but for a line from Pacino about a chicken. An old friend of mine does a great Pacino impression and every time he busted out the chicken line it would crack me up without fail.

Cinematographer Andrzej Bartkowiak is behind the camera and I'll watch anything he shoots, his work has been an ever present inspiration to me. In fact, of my rotating top ten films of all time, Sidney Lumet's The Verdict never leaves.

Director Taylor Hackford keeps it together (somehow), it no doubt helps that the screenplay was worked on by the great Tony Gilroy.

Next up, Keanu dances with Devil once again in Constantine, this time in L.A. It's a brilliant comic book movie with a stellar cast and once again, superb cinematography. I'm a big fan and I'm not alone. Here are two fantastic video essays that you should watch (after you've seen the movie of course).

Cinemastix on Constantine part one

Cinemastix on Constantine part two

The Devils Advocate and Constantine are both free to air on SBS.

Bon Ap