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Let Me In – Are you scarier than a 12 year old?
10th November 2010 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
This is the first film released under the re-vamped Hammer Studios, famous for a clutch of British horror classics in the 50’s and 60’s. It’s a remake of the one on best films of 2009’ - Let the Right One in’ (itself based on John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel) although director Michael Reeves can justly claim that virtually no-one in the USA saw the Swedish original.
Bullied schoolboy Owen(Kodi Smit-McPhee) has no... -
The Furred Man – Up the Wolf Creek without an alibi
4th November 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Films about werewolves always tread a fine line between the scary and the camp. If the likes of the Wolfman and Underworld cannot create convincing or frightening monsters, then what chance do small low budget films have? The
Furred Man skews the convention by building a story around, quite literally, a man in a wolf suit.
Bruised and battered Max (Daniel Carter Hope ) sits in an interrogation room dressed in a... -
Review: The Social Network – Only connect
19th October 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Status update – Mike is…writing a review of that Facebook movie.
Facebook is all about status. X is engaged, drunk; on holiday; divorced; walking the dog; has 378 friends. Our thoughts transmitted around the world. However the one person who we know very little about is the site’s founder Mark Zuckerberg. How can someone who created a site used by a billion people be so mysterious? The Social Network provides no... -
Wall Street – Money Never Sleeps…but you may end up dozing
12th October 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
Seemingly prescient with the aftershocks of the global financial meltdown still rippling, Oliver Stone returns to the world of Wall Street to cast another caustic eye on capitalism. The fact that Michael Douglas’ odious Gordon Gekko was seen as a hero by the very generation who caused the crash adds an ironic edge. However Stone has fallen into a similar trap by presenting Gekko as a de facto hero.
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The Town – Boston Kickout
4th October 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Ben Affleck’s sophomore effort as director sees him return to the Boston setting he knows so well. After sticking behind the camera for Gone Baby Gone, he enhances his own acting comeback in a lead role. It has similarities to how he first made his breakthrough with Good Will Hunting.
Long time thief Doug Macray considers leaving his robbing profession behind after developing feelings for the bank manager (Rebecca Hall) his... -
Tamara Drewe – Countryside canoodlings galore
20th September 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Journalist Tamara Drewe (Gemma Arteron) returns to the Dorset village she grew up in, a popular writers retreat. With a plan to sell her childhood home, matters become complicated when her childhood sweetheart, a rock drummer and an adulterous husband vie for her affections.
Based on the comic strip by Posey Simmonds, the film adaptation has been described as a saucier version of the Archers but having never listened to the... -
Scott Pilgrim vs The World – The Wright stuff
7th September 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Edgar Wright’s long awaited Hollywood bow has come with great expectations, yet its box office underachievement is no surprise as the film is difficult to categorise into one tick box category. It’s visually stunning and has more ideas than 100 government think tanks, but these positives are just as likely to polarise audiences.
Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is an unemployed musician, living in Toronto and still getting over being dumped by... -
Piranha – 3-D-eatre of blood!
26th August 2010 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this
If killer fish, buckets of blood or copious cleavage don’t spell a good night out, then you should probably stop reading now. Piranha 3-D is not subtle, nor well written, acted or a dozen other markers by which you could judge a good film. However it is barrels of fun and bitingly funny!
An underwater earth tremor unleashes scores of pre-historic piranhas into a lake, just as thousands of students converge... -
Knight and Day – Cruise comes to rescue the summer movie?
10th August 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Tom Cruise had said that he always wanted to film an action scene where Cameron Diaz straddled him on a motorbike. Oh to be a Hollywood A-lister! Cruise and Diaz team up for the first time since Vanilla Sky and the stars will be hoping the film is their Knight in shining armour. Both are in need of a hit.
June Havens’ (Diaz) normal life is rocked when she becomes unintentionally... -
The A-Team; A for effort C- for execution
3rd August 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The A-Team was always ripe for a big screen reactivation. It was camp Saturday night entertainment, where no-one got killed, each episode followed an identikit formula and the only plot arc occurred in the opening voice over. However George Peppard’s cigar, Mr T’s jewellery and THAT theme tune remain cool over two decades later.
A group of specialist Army Rangers are framed for a crime they did not commit and then...
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