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Eagle Eye [ 2008 ] [ Hits:320 ]
Review: Eagle Eye is the second film starring Shia LeBeouf with D.J. Caruso in the director’s chair, following closely on the back of Disturbia. Disturbia cemented both artists within Hollywood, using a contemporary Hitchcockian makeover in the shadows of Rear Window. Now they’re back in Eagle Eye, which is more of a magpie. The film parallels Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much and takes shiny bits and pieces from the likes of Live Free or Die Hard, The Matrix, Enemy of the State and Minority R...

Easy A [ Hits:405 ]
Review: Temptress, tart, floozy, flirt, cheap, tramp, harlot, trollop, easy, ho'... are just some of the endearing terms you'll hear being thrown around the playground these days. Pubescent promiscuity is nothing new - think back to that adult movie Kids or a little further back to Sodom and Gomorrah. A high school reputation is built almost entirely on the sports field for guys, in the girl's locker room for girls or behind the scoreboard for both. It's that awkward age when everyone's waiting for the ...

Easy Virtue [ 2008 ] [ Hits:388 ]
Review: Easy Virtue is a Noel Coward adaptation by Stephan Elliott (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) starring Jessica Biel, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Barnes and Colin Firth. The stage play gets a Hollywood makeover with a sprawling on-location English countryside backdrop, while the stiff upper lip gets the finger-flip to make that “brrr-brrr” sound as Jessica Biel rips up the rolling hills with her motor car as Larita. She’s a strong, free-spirited and dangerous character compara...

Edge of Darkness [ Hits:519 ]
Review: It's been a good 8 years since Mel Gibson had to have that chat with the top half of his wife in Signs. Since then he's been spotted in Papparazzi, The Singing Detective and a TV series called Complete Savages. Speaking of savages, he's also directed two blood-thirsty yet critically-acclaimed films in The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto. So it'd be fair to say that Edge of Darkness marks his return after a long break from acting ever since he agreed to star in that high concept movie with H...

Elegy [ Hits:255 ]
Review: Elegy is a film adaptation of Philip Roth’s ‘The Dying Animal’. The movie stars Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz with support from Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson and Peter Sarsgaard. An elegy is a poem usually associated with funeral’s. While Elegy is concerned with the latter portion of David Kepesh’s life, it doesn’t share a funeral pace or come across as flowery or symptomatic of its title. Isabel Coixet (The Secret Life of Words) paints an insightful adaptation, which relies on a...

Endgame [ 2009 ] [ Hits:527 ]
Review: Endgame (2009) is a political drama and thriller based on the covert discussions that led to the end of Apartheid in South Africa and mustn't be confused with End Game (2006), a conspiracy thriller starring Cuba Gooding Jr. The term 'endgame' is a clever title for this Pete Travis film. It means the final stage in a process of events, describing the closing stages of a Chess game when most of the pieces have been removed from the board. The symbolism of white versus black, the strategy, the deli...

Evening [ 2007 ] [ Hits:298 ]
Review: Evening is beautifully filmed by Oscar-nominated cinematographer and director, Lajos Koltai. The movie is an adaptation of Susan Minot’s novel and tells the romantic past and emotional present of a woman in her last days. Ann Grant (Redgrave) recalls a turning point in her life 50 years earlier from her deathbed as her daughters try to make sense of their lives. It’s a drama that combines what could be two separate films to tell of one woman’s regrets and desires. The ensemble is dominated...

Expired [ 2007 ] [ Hits:286 ]
Review: You know how someone will say one thing, but mean something else... well, Expired is a good example of this phenomenon. For starters, it hasn't expired - it may not be as fresh as Chinese take out, but just as enjoyable, entertaining and thought-provoking. Most people see movies because they don't want to provoke thought and "planning an escape" isn't as dirty as it was in the '50s. Expired seems like the set up for a quirky "romcom" from the outset, but the very presence of Samantha Morton (Syn...

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