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A Nightmare on Elm Street
[ 2010 ] [ Hits:630 ]
Review: A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of the most successful horror franchises ever... carrying Freddy Krueger, the burnt man with a fedora and bladed claw through our nightmares for almost three decades. Freddy's colleagues, Halloween's Michael Myers and Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees recently received their own remakes, so it was almost inevitable that Krueger would be given a face-lift remake. Rob Zombie's Halloween remake placed more emphasis on the face behind the mask, while the Friday the 13...
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A Perfect Getaway
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:369 ]
Review: I watch pretty much anything with Milla Jovovich... After first watching her as Lilli in Return to Blue Lagoon, she went on to star in cult favourite, Dazed & Confused and The Fifth Element as Leeloo - I was hooked, who wasn't? I even managed to stay loyal to her during the Joan of Arc phase, when her ex-husband Luc Besson... another film favourite (different reasons) got her to play the lead with a supporting cast including: John Malkovich and Dustin Hoffman. That was her make-or-break performa...
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A Serious Man
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:512 ]
Review: The Coen brothers have made some pretty crazy films over the years... focusing on dark comedy, adventure and more recently delving into the uncharacteristic domain of drama and thriller in their Oscar-winning, No Country for Old Men. Now as accurate as that Oscar contender adaptation was, I felt the Ethan and Joel Coen were on an Oscar mission rather than delving into a passion project. After all, how often do dark comedy crime adventures win Oscars? A Serious Man is another departure from their...
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Adam
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:465 ]
Review: First there was Adam and Eve... which just goes to show that most relationships are anything but a fairy tale. We can't blame Eve for accepting the apple and we can't blame Adam for offering the apple. Love is a complex business and this romantic notion is the focus of Adam. Not the semi-naked guy from the garden of Eden, the guy in the astronaut suit... would've been a knight in shining armour, but to say he likes astronomy would be an understatement. Adam has Asperger's Syndrome, a condition t...
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Adopted
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:397 ]
Review: Adopted is a Pauly Shore movie. You know... Pauly Shore. You're telling me you don't know who Pauly Shore is? Come on buuuudddy... the weasel, Encino Man, Biodome, Jury Duty, In the Army Now, Son in Law... Pauly Shore is Dead? Okay - well it's not the first time the guy hasn't been recognised and his heyday was in the early '90s with an interesting foray into "life without Pauly" in 2003. He's been primed as one of those guys you either love or hate and there are many haters out there that proba...
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Adventureland
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:374 ]
Review: Adventureland is Greg Mottola’s follow-up to the critically-acclaimed American teen movie, Superbad. Except Mottola takes both writing and directing credits on Adventureland, making this his second writing expedition since The Daytrippers. What worked for The Daytrippers, and what works for Adventureland is that the audience are naturally drawn to the characters, who find themselves in an everyday situation, where there’s never a dull moment. The dialogue is interesting - even thought-provok...
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Alice in Wonderland
[ 2010 ] [ Hits:551 ]
Review: Lewis Carroll wrote what some conspiracy theorists believe was a tale about the effects of hallucinogenic drugs. Perhaps the whole who ha started with Go Ask Alice about a teenage girl’s spiral into drugs in the ’60s, coupled with a song called White Rabbit. Whatever… Disney adapted it and they do Alice in Wonderland plays in churches, must be okay.Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland seems more concerned with Alice’s chastity and transition into womanhood at the age of 19, as she escapes ...
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Already Dead
[ 2007 ] [ Hits:365 ]
Review: Already Dead is an average revenge thriller that doubles back on itself. After a man’s wife is brutalised and his son is murdered, he pays for the opportunity to be alone in a room with the killer. The cast aren’t extraordinary, apart from some familiar faces in Til Schweiger (King Arthur) and Christopher Plummer (Inside Man). Ron Eldard (House of Sand and Fog) leads the charge as Thomas Archer and is a fairly durable lead actor. He’s aided by Til Schweiger for the majority of the film and...
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American Gangster
[ 2007 ] [ Hits:414 ]
Review: Ridley Scott introduces American Gangster, an epic American crime film based on a true story. Detective Richie Richards (Crowe) makes in-roads into Frank Lucas’s (Washington) heroin empire in Manhattan. Drug abuse is rife during America’s involvement in Vietnam, and Lucas smuggles narcotics from Thailand only to establish a monopoly with ‘Blue Magic’ a purer, cheaper alternative for U.S. junkies during the 1970s. Scott is supported by Academy Award winners, Denzel Washington and Russell...
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An Education
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:411 ]
Review: An Education is the story of Jenny, a precocious teenage girl living in suburban London in the 1960s. This coming-of-age drama deals with her transition from school girl to refined woman, as a well-to-do suitor nearly twice her age sweeps her off her feet. The education she receives is one on morality, ethics and coping in the big bad world. While the premise does open itself to teen exploitation in the same league of The Babysitters, it's mild in comparison with Lolita and is as prim and proper...
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Angels & Demons
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:334 ]
Review: Angels & Demons is the follow-up to the movie adaptation that capped the global phenomenon known as The Da Vinci Code. Tom Hanks reprises his role as Robert Langdon and Ron Howard takes the director’s chair again. This time the Da Vinci Code team are prepared and armed with criticism from their previous project, making Angels & Demons an action/thriller with a revenge plot between the Catholic Church and the Illuminati. If an age-old vendetta wasn’t enough, the stakes are raised by a hi-tech...
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Anywhere But Home
[ 2008 ] [ Hits:412 ]
Review: Anywhere But Home a.k.a. Four Christmases is a comedy directed by Seth Gordon (The King of Kong), starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon. The leads are supported by no less than four Oscar winners playing their parents, including: Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Jon Voight and Mary Steenburgen. Anywhere But Home is like Meet the Fockers: Christmas Edition and attempts to reel in some big comedy moments with its ensemble. Vaughn plays Brad, an attorney who would rather fake humanitarian work th...
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Apollo 18
[ Hits:120 ]
Review: In the same low budget found footage horror subgenre as The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity comes Apollo 18. The horror science-fiction thriller plays up the fact that the U.S. has never returned to the moon and shows evidence to suggest that there may just be signs of alien activity on the moon.
Apollo 18 is directed by Spanish editor-turn-director, Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego. It's Lopez-Gallego's first English language film and while his editorial experience may give him an edge, it's ...
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Apt Pupil
[ 1998 ] [ Hits:371 ]
Review: Apt Pupil comes from the pages of the self-titled book by the master of horror Stephen King. The story is more involved than some sort of unidentified evil. The evil Stephen King writes about, is the evil within all of us. World War II was laced with atrocities that will probably never be lived down. The Nazi concentration camps were a few degrees short of Hell on earth, and anyone that survived them would probably say the same. Unspeakable acts of genocide were committed on a large scale, and t...
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Arthur
[ Hits:302 ]
Review: What ever happened to the old adage, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”? The original Arthur is a Dudley Moore comedy classic with that hauntingly beautiful theme tune, Arthur’s Theme by Christopher Cross. So why spoil it by camping things up with Russell Brand? As a stand-alone movie, the new Arthur is lightly amusing, playful, upbeat and fun at best. However, when a movie tries to capture the essence of an original – a fairy dies. That fairy is Russell Brand, who while entertaining...
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Asterix at the Olympic Games
[ 2008 ] [ Hits:426 ]
Review: Asterix at the Olympic Games is the third film starring Christian Clavier and Gerard Depardieu as much-loved cartoon characters, Asterix & Obelix. The Gauls are French, so it seems only fitting that the film be made in French, however much of the comedy is lost in translation. This forces the comedy to be slapstick, which makes up for the distracting dubbed dialogue. Hitting Romans out of their shoes is funny in Asterix because in a cartoon world anything is possible, however it seems much more ...
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Australia
[ 2008 ] [ Hits:321 ]
Review: Australia is a Baz Luhrmann film of epic proportions. Not only is it 165 minutes long, but it follows in the slipstream of other classic titles such as Gone with the Wind. Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman headline the cast in their native country and are supported by fellow Australian, David Wenham. The movie’s sweeping shots of Australia are glorious, and add to the grand Western feel of the Outback. Luhrmann’s colourful costumes and youthful zest from Romeo & Juliet, Strictly Ballroom and Mo...
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Avatar
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:664 ]
Review: Avatar is the space between dreams and reality, fantasy and science fiction, cowboys and indians. James Cameron's latest film since Titanic is a dazzling spectacle of computer-generated photographic imagery and vivid contrasting themes. The film's mesmerising visuals capture a world of their own much like Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Trilogy with 3D effects giving the audience a sense of heightened reality. Cameron has been tinkering away at this project for more than a decade, proposing hi...
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Away From Her
[ 2007 ] [ Hits:294 ]
Review: Away From Her is an adaptation of Alice Munro’s short story “The Bear Came Over The Mountain” as a married couple in their 60s find themselves separated from each other, when one is instituionalised with Alzheimer’s disease. It’s a film about life, love and marriage. A retired couple living in Canada find themselves drifting toward the end of their relationship. Grant (Pisent) is deeply in love with Fiona (Christie) and the two have built a solid marriage over 45 years. Fiona has Alzhe...
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