Machete film review
(Sat 27/11)
While political movies projecting a serious tone around themes like war tend to drive audiences away from US theaters faster than rumors of a bedbug invasion, when heavy subject matter is laced with light laughs it's an
The Company Men movie review
(Wed 24/11)
The global meltdown is spawning innumerable films and this is one of them. It's set inside and just outside the corporate world but unfortunately never gets to the heart of anything or anyone and after watching for a wh
Black Swan movie review
(Tue 23/11)
Black Swan is the story of how a ballerina takes her dancing from brilliant to even better, which is not much of a journey by anyone's standards
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows part 1 review
(Mon 22/11)
Will the millions of devoted Harry Potter fans enjoy this film as much as they've enjoyed the others? Some will, for sure, but many others will think it's much, much too long, that it could have been cut in half and t
The King's Speech film review
(Fri 12/11)
This is a well structured story about the British Royal family. It's set just before the Second World War, has a real sense of time and place and the characters are authentically drawn, all of which promise a swash buck
Morning Glory film review
(Tue 09/11)
One of the hardest reviews for those of us in the media to write is, well, movies about those of us in the media. A predicament which couldn't be truer about the workplace comedy, Morning Glory.
Due Date movie review
(Mon 08/11)
Road movies have a lot of scope, with characters given the freedom to claim new lands as their own and fight off dragons that try to thwart their journey across the rugged terrain
Welcome to the Rileys film review
(Mon 25/10)
One of the most emotionally eloquent moments in Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls, is when a grieving mother who's lost her children cries out in despair, 'God didn't save my babies.' To which another character replie
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest film review
(Fri 22/10)
With its murky meeting of macabre minds that includes geriatric gunslingers, robber baron sex maniacs, a homicidal transnational gene pool and one genius, DNA damaged goth gumshoe hacker, you would expect of Swedish dire
Made in Dagenham film review
(Fri 22/10)
Made in Dagenham is based on a true story about a group of women who change the industrial world from their dilapidated, cramped factory base that leaks rivers in the rain and turns into a sweatshop in the summer
Outside the Law film review
(Mon 18/10)
Outside the Law is a story about the Algerian fight for independence at the end of World War II. It's informative and realistic and takes us to the heart of the Algerian people.
Easy A film review
(Thu 14/10)
Turning the tables a bit on teen rebellion by getting subversively judgmental about them instead, the matriculated satire Easy A, earns just that
Hereafter film review A Non-Spiritual Encounter
(Thu 14/10)
Death is one of the most fascinating and querulous subjects that mankind has to wrestle with and, while we don't expect films to rewrite the mandate of heaven to give us answers, we do expect insights and fresh food for
RED Film Review- A Bald Spy & Two Fur Coats
(Wed 13/10)
However bad a film is, the producers usually manage to find a way to hype the whole thing up so we don't know, until we've already paid for our ticket, that this is yet another old stoker that we've seen a million tim
The Social Network film review
(Mon 04/10)
This film tells us how Facebook was born, how it grew and how it grew even more to become the online social network of the decade.
