Articles By: Emma Hutchings
Film studies graduate, freelance writer, blogger and movie reviewer - visit my blog 'Suspend Your Disbelief' at syd-film-blog.blogspot.com and come tweet with me @sydfilmblog!
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Fred (Keanu Reeves) is an undercover narcotics agent. He is also Bob Arctor, who lives with his drug-addled friends, all under the influence of Substance D – a highly addictive and dangerous drug, also known as ‘Death’. This film explores the implications of drug taking and portrays events...
March 25th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
The Birds (1963)
Based on the story by Daphne Du Maurier, The Birds introduces Tippi Hedren as another of Hitchcock’s blond leading ladies. She plays Melanie Daniels, a rich, confident young woman who starts the film in a pet shop buying a bird and ends it never wanting to see a bird again, after a traumatising series...
March 25th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More
Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) has been married to his high school sweetheart for 25 years. His world falls apart and he jumps out of a moving vehicle after his wife Emily (Julianne Moore) suddenly announces that she wants a divorce and confesses that she slept with another man. Meanwhile, good-looking ladies...
January 30th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More
We’ll Take Manhattan (2012)
We’ll Take Manhattan follows cockney photographer David Bailey (Welsh actor Aneurin Barnard) and model Jean Shrimpton (Karen Gillen – Doctor Who’s Amy Pond) on their trip to New York in 1962 for a Vogue photo shoot. Written and directed by John McKay, the drama focuses on their love affair...
January 29th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
Next (2007)
Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day) directs this action sci-fi film, which follows the story of a man named Cris Johnson (Nicholas Cage). Cris is a magician with a show in Las Vegas under his stage name, Frank Cadillac. He has a special ability to be able to see two minutes into his future, which means [...]
December 9th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More
Minority Report (2002)
Chief John Anderton (Tom Cruise) works for the Department of Precrime in Washington D.C. in the year 2054. Utilising the skills of three precognitives (genetically altered people who can see the future, and more specifically, murders that are going to take place) the department tracks down and apprehends...
December 8th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More
Assassination Games (2011)
Assassination Games pairs veteran action icon Jean-Claude Van Damme with rising action star Scott Adkins in a tale of two skilled hitmen on the hunt for the same target. Vincent Brazil (Van Damme) and Roland Flint (Adkins) are both offered a contract on a criminal called Polo Yakur (Ivan Kaye), who was...
October 20th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More
Blitz (2011)
Jason Statham stars as Detective Tom Brant, a tough no-nonsense cop who, at the start of the film, assaults three youths trying to break into a car and receives some bad publicity in the newspaper. When a young policewoman is shot dead one evening at point blank range, a new Inspector called Porter Nash...
September 20th, 2011 | DVD Reviews | Read More
Source Code (2011)
Duncan Jones’ follow-up to his impressive directorial debut Moon (2009) is another claustrophobic sci-fi with an air of mystery. Source Code throws us right into the action without any explanation, as we see Jake Gyllenhaal’s character Captain Colter Stevens wake up on a train with no idea how he...
August 11th, 2011 | DVD Reviews, Feature | Read More
Faster (2010)
After recent stints in comedies and Disney movies, Dwayne Johnson is back in action with Faster. He plays a man known only as ‘Driver’, who is released from prison after 10 years. The warden (Tom Berenger) sends him on his way and he runs from the prison looking focused, determined and in a hurry....
July 30th, 2011 | DVD Reviews | Read More
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rachelandbella: liked love the comps...
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Kevin Matthews: Haha, for some reason I LOVE this pic that you've chosen, Robin. Well selected, sir. :-)... -
Tue Sorensen: And, the giraffe belly at the end is obviously fake......
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Patrick Gamble: saw this at Berlin, a friend basically described the synopsis as - Girl dreams of touching a giraffe's belly - 90 gruell... -
Tue Sorensen: :-) OK, I don't even know that word! Can you give me a couple of examples of where it has been used?...
