Posts Tagged ‘thriller’

The Divide (2011)

The Divide (2011)
After missing out on this movie at EIFF 2011 (fellow Flickfeaster John took that one, and his review is here) I have been wanting to see The Divide for quite some time. Most of the reviews I saw, without reading them in depth, seemed to be positive and I was pleased to see Michael Biehn [...]
May 17th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Headhunters (2011)

Headhunters (2011)
Mad chase Morten Tyldum is talented. “The Firm meets Blood Simple,” one reviewer wrote. But there are lots more elements than that in the new Norwegian movie Headhunters: they include Hitchcock, Patricia Highsmith, the Bourne actioners, B-Horror, and the coldly elegant style of the “New...
May 14th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
The Mission: Impossible movie franchise has been a consistently great source of fun for action fans. The first film had a couple of classic set-pieces, the second film may be the weakest of the lot but still had lots of fun moments and the third film was a blistering return to top form. This instalment,...
May 9th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Safe (2012)

Safe (2012)
Writer Director Boaz Yakin takes  billion dollar franchise action hero Jason Statham, to Downtown New York for a furious street fight with the Russian Mob, Asian Triads and some crooked cops in Safe. Fans of the former championship diver and model should be delighted with his excessively pumped physique...
May 4th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)
As soon as this remake of the popular Swedish movie was announced you could hear the hissing of dissent, the sharpening of knives and the flicking of thesaurus pages as people tried to find new words to construct old and familiar complaints. Yet there was also something different about this one, something...
April 30th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Poongsan (2011)

Poongsan (2011)
One of the most well-regarded South Korean directors is Kim Ki-duk, famous for such titles as The Isle (2000), Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (2003), Samaritan Girl (2004) and 3-Iron (2004). When he doesn’t direct, he furnishes other directors with screenplays, and that is the case for...
April 29th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Miss Bala (2011)

Miss Bala (2011)
*contains spoilers* In the frenzy of 3-4 movies a day, my schedule for the CPH PIX film festival is so full that I often do not have time to research a given movie very well before I watch it. I went into Miss Bala largely not knowing what it was about, other than that it [...]
April 23rd, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Lockout (2012)

Lockout (2012)
Lockout, starring the always watchable Guy Pearce, is the sci-fi B-movie guilty pleasure of the year. Produced by Luc Besson and directed and written by a pair of first timers, Irish lads James Mather and Stephen St. Leger, who inject a whole lot of love of 80′s action films into this compact...
April 20th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Transit (2012)

Transit (2012)
Starting with a quick armed robbery, Transit really sets off at a pace it tries to keep up until the very end. It doesn’t quite manage it but it has a good go. After the armed robbery comes the hard part – avoiding the cops and getting away with the loot – so the four [...]
April 20th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Everything-but-the-kitchen-sink horror With a higher than usual budget for the genre and some name actors, The Cabin in the Woods takes the standard B-horror format and high-concepts it with a framework that’s as grandiose as it is absurd. The little group of nice-looking college kids (spoilers...
April 13th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More
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