Archive for the ‘Film Reviews’ Category
The Hunt (2012)
So far London Film Festival has offered up a few alright films, one very good and an absolute raspberry. Until The Hunt was screened the only really brilliant film was My Brother The Devil, but now The Hunt has been seen, it’s not an exaggeration to say it’s the best film of the festival...
October 11th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
Room 237 (2012)
Did you know that the celebrated director Stanley Kubrick faked the Apollo moon landing for NASA in a Hollywood studio? It’s one of the ‘claims’ made in the outlandish and esoteric documentary analysing the 1980 Horror masterpiece The Shining. Room 237 is a Kubrickian ‘mind fuck’...
October 11th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
Frankenweenie (2012)
Tim Burton’s much hyped re-imagining of one of his earliest films, the 1984 short film of the same name, delivers on its promise of scares, thrills and laughs in spades. All wrapped up in a beautiful homage to the horror/sci-fi films that inspired and influenced Burton greatly, which is both technically...
October 11th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Let me be quite clear as I start off this review, whenever I see a Resident Evil movie I know that I only have myself to blame when I walk out, cursing to the heavens. Paul W. S. Anderson isn’t a good film-maker but he sometimes makes entertaining nonsense (I love Event Horizon, liked the [...]
October 5th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
The Dictator (2012)
The Dictator was a movie that I had little interest in when it was released and knew little about. Star Sacha Baron Cohen had been out and about, pulling a number of stunts while in character, and I admit that I thought he was pushing his luck if he wanted to try and repeat the [...]
October 3rd, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
La Cara Oculta (2011)
Hollywood presently seems to be suffering a fad for Americanising foreign thrillers to no useful end. Recently Elizabeth Olsen ineffectually reprised Silent House, a Uruguayan horror that by all accounts was pretty ineffectual in the first place. The studio moguls may well try to do the same with La...
October 2nd, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
Dredd (2012)
First, a question: Is the full title of this movie actually Dredd 3D? What about the 2D version, that they’re also showing? Is that called Dredd 2D? Will a sequel be called Dredd 2 3D or Dredd 3D 2? Well, what I hope is the case is that this movie is in fact just called [...]
October 2nd, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
Looper (2012)
If you have been as excited as I have, for as long as I have, at the prospect of seeing Looper at the cinema then I am pretty sure that you won’t be disappointed. It’s smart enough in many ways to stop you noticing the major plotholes, it’s high concept but feels like a small [...]
October 2nd, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
Some Guy Who Kills People (2011)
When I tell you that Some Guy Who Kills People is a surprisingly sweet comedy drama that happens to have a few slasher movie moments throughout then you might not be too surprised. Those elements normally aren’t blended together but the title gives about the content – simple and also slightly...
October 1st, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
Sinister (2012)
AKA Not So Super 8. Scott Derrickson is a hard man to pin down. On the one hand he’s the man who directed the pretty poor remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still (which, to be fair, was a remake of one of my favourite films of all time so I was unlkely to [...]
October 1st, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More
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Chris Bale: Sad to say I couldn't see the humour Craig, but glad you found some to enjoy. As a huge 'Evil Dead' fan I think the fran... -
Kevin Matthews: I guess I'd sort of agree with that quote, Chris. As for the video, I will look for a clip of it available here in the U...
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Chris Knipp: People have been talking about a famous 1975 Saturday Night Live skit, "The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise," t...
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Chris Knipp: Anthony Lane of 'The New Yorker', calls this "A great, thundering cudgel of a movie, set to stun." I guess you'd agree,...
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Chris Knipp: Excellent review Miguel, especially of context and background. C-G's 2009 Eden Is West (Rendez-Vous with French Cinema ...
