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City of God [ 2002 ] [ Hits:858 ]
Review: City of God aka Cidade de Deus looks and feels real. You know you’re about to see something special, when the opening scene rolls. Chickens are being plucked and prepared, while festive music fills the air. In the City of God, the children are the criminals. They all run around playing ‘cops and robbers’. Only this ‘cops and robbers’ leaves some dead. When they’re not playing soccer on the dusty fields, they’re toting handguns and holding gas trucks up for money and loot. The polic...
Drive [ Hits:654 ]
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:904 ]
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...
Kings of South Beach [ 2007 ] [ Hits:936 ]
Review: Kings of South Beach comes to you from the writings of Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wise Guy (Goodfellas) and Casino, two books that became Martin Scorsese crime epics. He writes the script for Kings of South Beach a decade later, which is based on a true story. This made for television feature may not have the big budget flair of The Departed, but manages to entertain nevertheless. Donnie Wahlberg teams up with experienced TV maverick, Jason Gedrick in something of a buddy movie. These boys are ...
How I Spent My Summer Vacation [ Hits:392 ]
Review: How I Spent My Summer Vacation, originally Get the Gringo, stars Mel Gibson in what has been described as an unofficial sequel to Payback. Love or hate the man, he's still got loads of moxie and star power. He may be a washed up celebrity in real-life, but Gibson is still a live-wire on screen and shows he's still got it in what should have been his acting comeback. A nameless Gibson manages to find himself in a corrupt yet liberal prison village, after getting nabbed by Mexican border patrol a...
Determinism [ Hits:1407 ]
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:897 ]
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:834 ]
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:966 ]
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:1099 ]
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 ...
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