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Salt [ 2010 ] [ Hits:46 ]
Review: Salt was originally written with the intention of being an espionage action-thriller with Tom Cruise as the lead. However, when Cruise backed out of the production... Jolie replaced the big name star and the script was rewritten for a female lead. Salt's loosely modeled on the Bourne series with short, sharp bursts of action with a rogue agent on the loose. This is your typical man-on-the-run actioner with a hot pursuit from government authorities in an attempt to dispatch the "traitor" with as ...
Maos Last Dancer [ 2009 ] [ Hits:42 ]
Review: Mao's Last Dancer, finally - a dance film where the story line is just as fantastic as the dancing - and true! The extraordinary biography of Li Cunxin makes a graceful leap from autobiography to film under the watchful eye of Australian-born director, Bruce Beresford (Paradise Road, Driving Miss Daisy) and screenwriter, Jan Sardi (Shine). The tag line for Mao's Last Dancer is 'Before You Can Fly, You Have To Be Free', an underlying theme throughout the drama with sharp contrasts between America...
The Sorcerers Apprentice [ 2010 ] [ Hits:44 ]
Review: Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone ripped off Walt Disney’s Fantasia… well, at least the title of that famous 10-minute symphonic clip of Mickey Mouse and his magic shrooms brooms. Seventy years later we have the live-action The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, which has taken revenge on Harry Potter with a knock-off adventure. It’s a vicious cycle and unfortunately, for hogwarts and potheads – Harry doesn’t make an appearance in this one – he doesn’t even feature in the title, poor b...
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans [ 2009 ] [ Hits:65 ]
Review: It's really difficult to comment on Werner Herzog's latest offering, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. First off, the title should alert you to the fact that this is a send up of the cop crime genre, which is not to be confused with Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant (1992) starring Harvey Keitel. Both focus on a bad cop with a drug addiction, are based on the same script but are made with different intentions. Herzog has made a name for himself as a daring and unorthodox director with fi...
Youth in Revolt [ 2009 ] [ Hits:36 ]
Review: Youth in Revolt is a Miguel Arteta film starring Michael Cera and Portia Doubleday. This is a coming-of-age comedy, drama and romance story based on the novel by C.D. Payne about the growing pains and misadventures of 16-year-old, Nick Twisp. He's just like any ordinary pubescent American kid... going through changes and moving from the confines of young boy to young man. Youth in Revolt is about the teen angst and Rebel Without A Cause within every kid... except Nick's journey is with a cause, ...
The A Team [ 2010 ] [ Hits:83 ]
Review: Screw G.I. Joe, The A-Team are the quintessential All-American action heroes from the '80s... destined to be everybody's favourite crack commando squad of mercenaries from now until the end of time. I can tell... I had a Murdock action figure (don't judge me). Action, adventure, comedy and mild peril... The A-Team had it all and who can forget Hannibal Smith's wise-cracks, disguises and cigar-champing, B.A.'s ingenuity, mohawk and bling, Murdock's voices, madcap antics and crazy eyes or Faceman'...
Creation [ 2009 ] [ Hits:44 ]
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 ...
Please Give [ Hits:49 ]
Review: Please Give starts with a series of boobs... breasts, jugs, chesticles etc. It's quite an introduction for a coming-of-age comedy drama with Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall and Amanda Peet. Now this isn't a flattering set of shots, but more of a flattening one as ordinary breasts are compressed for mammograms. Is it justified exposure... the jury is still out and this intro ranks alongside A Touch of Spice, that spicy Greek film that starts with a baby breastfeeding on a full-screen...
Themba: A Boy Called Hope [ 2010 ] [ Hits:65 ]
Review: Themba: A Boy Called Hope is an inspirational coming-of-age drama about a young South African boy's escape from poverty and the pursuit of a dream. The film couldn't have come at a better time, releasing in the aftermath of the hugely successful 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. However, this isn't any ordinary South African film and if you're expecting Hollywood formula in this sports drama, you'll be disappointed. While football forms the backdrop to this emotional journey, it's simply a th...
Predators [ 2010 ] [ Hits:95 ]
Review: Predators is a sequel to Predator and Predator 2. Since it's no longer cool to add a number to denote how many times a blockbuster has been exploited, unless you're going straight to video or you're a superhero... it gets the imaginative reworking, Predators. Now it's been a good 23 years since Arnie busted a Predator's chops in the original and in that time we've also seen a spin-off, AVP: Alien vs. Predator with its own sequel. Predator has become a Hollywood icon thanks to the late special ef...
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