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Spud 2: The Madness Continues [ Hits:162 ]
Review: Spud 2: The Madness Continues is the much anticipated follow-up to Spud, based on the popular series of boarding school misadventures by John Van De Ruit. Another year has passed in the life of young John "Spud" Milton. He may have moved up the pecking order and landed a regular spot on the Crazy Eight, but the girl trouble, boarding house shenanigans and parental woes have only just begun. The first film introduced us to boarding school life, the South Africa of 1990, an array of colourful cha...
After Earth [ Hits:46 ]
Review: After Earth is an M. Night Shyamalan film. The director’s signature film is still The Sixth Sense and many would agree that his best years, while love-or-hate projects, surround this film. His most recent “blockbusters” have not lived up to his heyday with invisible, biological retaliation in The Happening and a wishy-washy animation to live-action adaptation of The Last Airbender. Unfortunately, After Earth is not his comeback. The film may leverage the sentimental father-son team of Wil...
Stand Up Guys [ Hits:52 ]
Review: The first thing you'll notice about Stand Up Guys is the legendary cast starring Al Pacino and Christopher Walken, with Alan Arkin as a catalyst supporting act. Each of these actors can make a film soar almost single-handedly and have developed a following and filmography most actors would trade their childhoods for. While Stand Up Guys leans heavily on its big guns, it will go down as a misfire. While Fisher Stevens won an Oscar for Best Documentary as producer on The Cove, Stand Up Guys is on...
Star Trek Into Darkness [ Hits:57 ]
Review: Star Trek Into Darkness lives up to the hype. J.J. Abrams, in many ways a Steven Spielberg 2.0, has managed to do the near-impossible by securing pivotal roles in two of the biggest franchises in Star Trek and now Star Wars, with Star Wars VII in the pipeline. The director and producer is a forerunner for the next Hollywood juggernaut with a collection of noteworthy blockbusters in Mission Impossible III, Super 8 and Star Trek with many more to come. Star Trek reinvented the series sporting a b...
Side Effects [ Hits:95 ]
Review: America's over-medicated. Whether it's the cold hard truth or a bitter pill in Hollywood, the trend has led Steven Soderbergh to take another jab in Side Effects. This, not long after the versatile Ocean's Eleven director and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns collaborated on Contagion, another thriller that takes a cutting look at the pharmaceutical industry. In Side Effects, a woman's life spirals out of control after her psychiatrist puts her onto a new drug with dire side effects. What starts as a ...
The Hangover Part III [ Hits:69 ]
Review: The Hangover Part III is a somewhat entertaining mash-up of The Hangover and Due Date. We've come to expect a certain level of debauchery and funny in a series that started like a casino on fire and The Hangover Part III disappoints... that's right, disappoints. First there was The Hangover, a what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas concept comedy that bristled with excitement and laughter. Then there was The Hangover II, a carbon copy of The Hangover that found itself in Bangkok, and asked you to...
Fast & Furious 6 [ Hits:142 ]
Review: Fast cars, leggy women, big guns, money and loads of piston-pumping action is the stuff of the Fast & Furious. Six movies in and it's like they're just starting their engines as the flags go down and the winner takes all. Although to be fair, the road has had some twists, veering into new territory with Tyrese Gibson in 2 Fast 2 Furious and then reinventing the series altogether with the third one, Tokyo Drift. The Fast & Furious franchise has come a long way - peaking with their hybrid...
Bernie [ Hits:114 ]
Review: Jack Black is an irrepressible jack-in-the-box and pent up ball of energy ready to explode. At least, that's how most of his characters come across - making him funny, outrageous and supremely entertaining. When he does tone his performance down in something more sedate, we notice. Bernie is one of those films, reconnecting Jack Black with School of Rock director, Richard Linklater, to tune into his sweeter side in a remarkable true story. Bernie Tiede, a small town mortician, was a very popula...
Promised Land [ Hits:125 ]
Review: Promised Land deals with the contentious fracking debate, which isn't surprising, considering it's a Gus Van Sant film. The director is known for tackling difficult subjects head-on and he's opted for a big one as far as environmental concerns go. While he's quite fearless in most of his films, he's taken a step back with his approach to Promised Land, delivering a quietly powerful message that's neither backdrop nor full-blown propaganda.Instead of beating us over the head with the issues or go...
Bullet to the Head [ Hits:136 ]
Review: Bullet to the Head is a long-awaited match-up of Hollywood veterans, Walter Hill and Sylvester Stallone. Walter Hill directed Arnold Schwarzenegger in Red Heat and Bruce Willis in Last Man Standing, so it was only fitting that he complete The Expendables 2 triumvirate with Sylvester Stallone in Bullet to the Head. Stallone's had a good run of form rebooting Rocky and Rambo, with a tongue-in-cheek tribute to action men with The Expendables, which is about to become a trilogy. The Italian Stallio...
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