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Crazy Heart [ 2009 ] [ Hits:751 ]
Review: Bridges delivers a powerful performance in Crazy Heart as the story follows ‘Bad’ Blake, a whiskey-swigging legend of a musician, who would trade horses for a guitar. His music has inspired a generation of country and western performers, yet his high regard hasn’t translated into the high life the way he’d want it to be. His alcoholism and loneliness are crunch factors that keep Bad, well… bad. He’s bad to the bone and destined to be that way until he meets Jean Craddock, a young jou...
Crazy, Stupid, Love. [ Hits:871 ]
Review: Love is a complicated emotion. Something that humans seem to grapple with most of their lives. We're born with a yearning for something that transcends this earthly experience. For most people it's that elusive soul mate, a higher power or worse... money. It's why human nature is so fascinating and compels film-makers to continue making films about this human condition.Look at just about any movie and at some level, superficial or soulful... you'll find the theme of love. No wonder Richard Curti...
Creation [ 2009 ] [ Hits:690 ]
Review: Charles Darwin, an English naturalist in the 1800s published his theory of evolution in On the Origin of the Species, a book which sold out immediately, providing compelling evidence for evolution and now regarded as a fundamental life sciences principle in explaining the diversity of life. Creation details Darwin's evolution of thought as he gets to grips with actually writing and completing On the Origin of the Species. The film also suggests that Darwin was so passionate and dedicated to his ...
Crossing Over [ 2009 ] [ Hits:757 ]
Review: Crossing Over is a confrontational drama in the same league as films like Babel, Bordertown and Crash. Race relations are the subject matter, and immigration is the taboo that rises to the surface in this engaging story about the intersecting lives of Americans and immigrants seeking to be naturalised or granted status as American citizens. The characters come from all walks of life... including nationalities, colours and cultures that make the United States such a wonderful cross-section of hum...
Cyrus [ 2010 ] [ Hits:613 ]
Review: Cyrus is a dramedy by the Duplass brothers, who directed the critically acclaimed The Puffy Chair. The first thing you'll notice about this indie comedy is the cast, who are direct from Hollywood. These prickly slice-of-life comedies have cemented themselves in the independent circuit, boasting a mainstream cast with sharp, original writing and more flexible stories. The cast raise the status of the film, while they get the nod and credibility of not simply doing it for the bucks... a win-win fo...
Dark Tide [ Hits:489 ]
Review: Dark Tide is a shark thriller starring Halle Berry and directed by Blue Crush and Into The Blue director, John Stockwell. The film is set in Simon's Town, South Africa, which lends it some Proudly South African flavour with its setting, film crew and local acting talent. Although, that doesn't change the fact that it's a shark thriller starring Halle Berry. Halle Berry can act. Monster's Ball, Things We Lost in the Fire, Frankie & Alice, Gothika and even Die Another Day testify to her range...
Date Night [ 2010 ] [ Hits:889 ]
Review: Ah, date night... the one night of the week married couples get to... go on a date. That's right. Today's married couple has to actually schedule an evening every week to do something special together, whether that's dining, movies or a mixture of both. Date Night explores the mundane weekly event with a fresh perspective... what if a date night became memorable for all the wrong reasons.In the same way The Hangover took a bachelors to new depths of culpability, Date Night takes the Fosters, a b...
Dead Man Down [ Hits:134 ]
Review: The original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo duo, Niels Arden Oplev and Noomi Rapace, have teamed up again for Dead Man Down. While another revenge-fueled crime thriller in the style of Guy Ritchie and Jo Nesbo, Dead Man Down has more artistic appeal in the vein of Killing Them Softly. The mix of gangster grit and borderline cheesy girl next door romance is propelled by a serial killer plot line as an anonymous middle man taunts a crime lord with a puzzle. While there are some notable similariti...
Death at a Funeral [ 2010 ] [ Hits:905 ]
Review: The first thing you'll be thinking is... why, oh why, oh why did they remake a film only 3 years after the original Death at a Funeral? Well, the first guess would be money. If the cow's not dry, there's milking to be done and Hollywood hasn't got any time for charity, although you'd be forgiven for thinking that considering some of the film productions that actually make it past the conceptual phase. It's just easier to get an audience, rake up a bit of press and run with a title and plot that ...
Death Race [ 2008 ] [ Hits:720 ]
Review: Death Race is a loose remake of Roger Corman’s Death Race 2000 (1986) (featured movie poster). Corman’s vision is recreated by Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil) for the 2000 generation as a tribute and a cash cow. The movie doesn’t hold back in terms of visual effects and violence. In many ways, this could have been made by Manga as a video game prequel in a similar fashion to Dead Space: Downfall. The graphics are intense and will appeal to video gamers, who thrived on titles like Carmag...
Defiance [ 2008 ] [ Hits:733 ]
Review: Defiance is a film by Edward Zwick, the director of Blood Diamond and The Last Samurai. Zwick’s films show a connection with humanity and nature. The director is able to unify the two, making the environment a part of the characters. In Defiance, the forest forms the backdrop for the majority of the film moving from dry to snowy conditions. The Bielski brothers band a group of Jewish fighters together to establish a safe community in the Belarussian forests for Jewish families in Nazi-occupied...
Deja Vu [ 2006 ] [ Hits:776 ]
Review: Tony Scott is well-established as a Director in Hollywood. Scott has directed Top Gun, Crimson Tide, Days of Thunder, Enemy of the State, Man on Fire and now Deja Vu. All of these films have been top quality thrillers with a blockbuster cast including greats like Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington. The pace is frenetic, the cinematography reinforces the dynamic excitement in his blazing films. His films are similar in proportion and content to Michael Bay’s fare, but ad...
Departures [ 2008 ] [ Hits:879 ]
Review: Departures is a masterpiece by Yôjirô Takita (Onmyogi), transcending Japanese culture and breaking into the very essence of humanity. The story follows Daigo, a cellist who returns to his home town after the disbanding of his city orchestra and the crashing sound of his dream to become a professional musician. From the age of 6, his cello was his source of inspiration and channel for emotional turmoil as a result of his father's abandonment. Now after purchasing an expensive cello, his destiny...
Despicable Me [ 2010 ] [ Hits:913 ]
Review: Despicable Me, a tale about an evil mastermind, who adopts three girls from an orphanage in the hopes of breaching his arch rival's security via the time-honoured tradition of selling cookies, and instead, falling in love with the idea of losing 'despicable' for 'dependable' by becoming a dad. Almost brings a tear to my eye. Jokes aside, Despicable Me is one of those cartoons that will surprise you at just how much you've invested in the movie. Apart from the 3D admission ticket, popcorn and dri...
Determinism [ Hits:1408 ]
Review: Determinism (determinismthemovie.com) is the second feature-length film of identical twin brothers, Sanjit and Ranju Majumdar. The brothers were born in Queens, after their parents immigrated from South Asia, and they started making films in high school at the age of 16. After their first film, An Optimistic Perspective, premiered at the Lake Placid Film Festival in 2004, it wasn't long before they started work on their second, Determinism. The gritty, film noir-inspired, guerilla style crime st...
Die Wonderwerker [ Hits:1531 ]
Review: Katinka Heyns is the director behind South African classics such as Paljas and Fiela se Kind. It's been more than a decade since her last film, making Die Wonderwerker, a much anticipated follow-up for the acclaimed director. She marks her return with a biographical mystery drama based on a chapter from the life of famous Afrikaner laywer, poet and naturalist, Eugene Marais.The man's output may not have been extensive, but he's still revered for his poems and studies on nature. Die Wonderwerker ...
Disaster Movie [ 2008 ] [ Hits:618 ]
Review: Disaster Movie follows in the tradition of Superhero Movie, Epic Movie, Date Movie and every Genre Movie that continues the so-called “legacy”. These slapstick spoof movies have become so intertwined in popular culture, that there’s very little to absorb in terms of actual content. The sole purpose of these movies is to ridicule contemporary films and pop culture symbols that have preceded them, so they have a limited shelf-life. This is what distinguishes them from classic slapstick comed...
Disgrace [ 2008 ] [ Hits:1750 ]
Review: Disgrace is a film adaptation of J.M.Coetzee's novel of the same title, which won such prestigious awards as the Booker Prize and Nobel Prize in Literature. The film is directed by Steve Jacobs, written by Anna Maria Monticelli and stars the indomitable John Malkovich. Disgrace has been the centre of much debate in South Africa, primarily caused by the ANC labeling it as "too pessimistic" a view of South Africa. International audiences and literature authorities have praised it for its brutal ho...
District 9 [ 2009 ] [ Hits:1492 ]
Review: Watching District 9 was a new film experience, which could only be described as Hotel Rwanda, Fido and Lars and the Real Girl... in a blender. In retrospect, it's all of that and more. Neill Blomkamp burst onto the movie scene in 2005 with Alive in Joburg, a fascinating Sci-Fi/Documentary short film about aliens in Johannesburg... what, you didn't hear about it? Don't worry, it wasn't a hostile threat - didn't even make the news.The 6-minute short film caught the eye of Peter Jackson, who instan...
Django Unchained [ Hits:324 ]
Review: Slavery is not dead, it's alive and well in Hollywood. We're not talking about those struggling actors chained to their trailers between takes, being forced to succumb to the hardship of celebrity, we're taking about a trend that has emerged in 2012 in Cloud Atlas, Lincoln and most notably Django Unchained, in a story about a free man trying to rescue his wife from a plantation. Quentin Tarantino's got a penchant for movies about raw deals and underdogs, and as such returns to this theme again ...
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