Archive for the ‘Film Reviews’ Category

Red Hill (2010)

Red Hill (2010)
Writer-director Patrick Hughes brings us this Australian thriller/Western that manages to impress with it’s style and moments of tension throughout. Ryan Kwanten (most familiar nowadays to fans of the excellent “True Blood”) stars as Constable Shane Cooper, a city boy trying to get by on his first...
June 21st, 2010 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Collector (2009)

The Collector (2009)
A horror movie directed by the man who wrote all three Feast movies and the parts IV, V and VI of the Saw franchise? If you’re already turning pale at the thought of the end result then you’re probably best avoiding this one but it’s actually a damn fine horror movie and one of the [...]
June 21st, 2010 | Film Reviews | Read More

Happy Times (2000)

Happy Times (2000)
A heartfelt comedy fused with a healthy dose of drama, Happy Times (Chinese title: Xingfu Shiguang) does a good job of mixing genres while it remains entertaining and touching at the same time. In an effort to win the hand of a ‘chunky’ woman (Lifan Dong), Zhao (Benshan Zhao) claims he runs...
June 21st, 2010 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Drag Me To Hell (2009)

Drag Me To Hell (2009)
Gross, hilarious, and sometimes terrifying, Sam Raimi, the mastermind behind the Evil Dead trilogy, is back with Drag Me To Hell, a horror/comedy that, while not as good as his Evil Dead trilogy, will make you glad he returned to the genre that gave him his cult following. Christine Brown (Alison...
June 21st, 2010 | Film Reviews | Read More

Land of the Lost (2009)

Land of the Lost (2009)
Full of pop culture references, rubber suited sleestaks, and adult language, Land of the Lost provides a new take on the original Sid and Marty Kroft series from the 1970s. After being humiliated by Matt Lauer on Today for his quack theories on time travel, parallel universes, and tachyons, Dr. Rick...
June 21st, 2010 | Film Reviews | Read More

Donkeys (2010)

Donkeys (2010)
Known on IMDb, for the time being, as Rounding Up Donkeys. Playing out as a slightly alternative life path for the characters who featured in Red Road, this movie has some moments of quality and raw emotion that may bring that film to mind but can easily be viewed as a very separate movie on [...]
June 20th, 2010 | Film Reviews | Read More

Evil – In The Time Of Heroes AKA To kako – Stin epohi ton iron (2009)

Evil – In The Time Of Heroes AKA To kako – Stin epohi ton iron (2009)
There’s chaos and anger in Greece as the country teeters on the brink of collapse, awaiting help from others that may just see it being destroyed even further. But don’t get to thinking that this movie, from director Yorgos Noussias, is a serious look at the economic situation of Greece. Oh no, it’s...
June 20th, 2010 | Film Reviews | Read More

Jackboots On Whitehall (2010)

Jackboots On Whitehall (2010)
Mixing the stiff-upper-lipped derring do of the classic British wartime action movies (and comics such as “Commando”) with the skewed comic sensibilities of Team America: World Police, this movie may not necessarily spin the smartest take on it’s alternative WWII plotline but with it’s scattershot...
June 20th, 2010 | Film Reviews | Read More

Legion (2010)

Legion (2010)
Director Scott Stewart (who also had a hand in writing the script) brings us a fun, lively action horror movie about a diner besieged by possessed people who want to ensure the death of a yet-to-be-born child and subsequently spur on the end of mankind. The angel Michael (Paul Bettany) wants the baby...
June 19th, 2010 | Film Reviews | Read More

The Colour of Pomegranates (1968)

The Colour of Pomegranates (1968)
How to portray the life of a poet on film without using traditional cinematic language? Armenian director Sergei Parajanov must have posed this question when he set out to adapt to the big screen the life of poet, national hero and martyr Sayat Nova. To say that The Colour of Pomegranates rejects linear...
June 18th, 2010 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More
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