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Drive [ Hits:35 ]
Review: Driver (played by Ryan Gosling in super-intense mode) enters an elevator with the nice girl who lives down the hall. As he walks in he notices a big guy in the elevator who looked as if he was about to get off on their floor, before he saw that Driver and the girl were getting into the elevator. Driver takes note of this as he walks into the elevator, and keeps the thug in his periphery as the elevator descends. Then, in a fairytale sweep guaranteed to melt cinemagoers’ hearts, he swivel...

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...

Determinism [ Hits:819 ]
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...

The Girl Who Played with Fire [ 2009 ] [ Hits:367 ]
Review: The Girl Who Played with Fire is the second chapter in the infamous Millennium series: after The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and serves as a bridge to The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. Stieg Larsson's trilogy has received considerable publicity given the nature of the crime novel and speculation over Larsson's death shortly after delivering the manuscripts for publication. The Swedish film adaptations were well-received and have finally been given an international reception, bolstered by th...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest [ Hits:346 ]
Review: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest is the third chapter in the Millennium series: after The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire. Stieg Larsson's adapted film trilogy has held a good consistency under Yellow Bird Productions with each part filmed within the same year much like a mini-series. The difference being that this series has been blocked off in sections denoting each book and the saga of Lisbeth Salander has been cemented by a career-defining performance by No...

The Town [ Hits:393 ]
Review: Since Hollywoodland, he's has been on the comeback trail. Although, it's not that difficult when you're following up roles as a blind superhero in Daredevil and Jennifer Lopez's play thing in Gigli. This is the life of Ben Affleck, whose career has been peppered with the good, the bad and the ugly. These days, it's as if Affleck has sprouted a halo and angel wings because he can do no wrong! Probably just jinxed him, but Affleck has turned on the talent instead of the schmarmy charms echoing a s...

The Next Three Days [ Hits:464 ]
Review: Breaking out of prison is never easy, unless you're one of the Beagle boys or a young Sean Connery. It's a meticulous process of timing, planning, training, testing and presence of mind as demonstrated by Wentworth Miller in Prison Break. He was motivated by his brother's wrongful imprisonment, determined to reverse the cogs of justice and work the system in his favour. Full body tattoos are one way of getting your brother out of the clinker, but there's another way... a more sensible blueprint ...

SUPER [ Hits:106 ]
Review: Rainn Wilson is Frank, an ordinary guy with no superpowers who decides to kick crime in the ass. Sounds a lot like Defendor and Kick-Ass right? If this movie were a person, it'd be Kevin Bacon, which isn't surprising because there's only one degree of separation. You could say it's the Taxi Driver of superhero movies... just don't call it another Kick-Ass, mmmkay. Frank (Wilson), a burger flipper, whose smoking hot wife (Tyler) and commitment to justice are the only two things going for him... ...

The Lincoln Lawyer [ Hits:322 ]
Review: Matthew McConaughey wants to be taken seriously. The Lincoln Lawyer can be viewed as his return to serious acting after a scourge of romantic comedy lead roles. After starring opposite Kate Hudson in the smash hit, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, it seemed that McConaughey was destined to be that guy - even trying to turn their good chemistry into a recurring partnership with Fool's Gold. This after proving his worth in films like U571, Sahara, Contact, EdTV and A Time to Kill. Thing is... McConau...

London Boulevard [ Hits:213 ]
Review: London Boulevard is the sort of movie you'd expect from a director like Guy Ritchie. It feels like it was written with Ritchie in mind - given the setting, characters and dialogue. Problem is... the element of romance and the overall lack of action. Guy Ritchie is more about intense, slick and violent British gangster movies, although the way Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr. has been going... he seems to be embracing a different sort of romance, playing up the relationship between Holmes a...

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