Buried film review
(Mon 20/09)
Horror can also come in small packages. Even a coffin, as the no frills, literally underground thriller Buried impressively confirms.
The Town film review
(Fri 17/09)
The Town refers to Charlestown, Boston, a place where fathers proudly mentor their sons to follow in their footsteps, which mostly lead to the local jail, but at least the sentiment is there.
Secret Cinema showcases Lawrence of Arabia in Alexandra Palace
(Wed 08/09)
Secret Cinema held it’s latest event over the weekend and was perhaps the best kept secret of the year
Tamara Drewe review - romp and circumstance in the country
(Tue 07/09)
Tamara Drewe is the dream plotline you wish to give the Midsommer Murders episodes that you have to endure with Mum and Grandma on a quiet Sunday evening.
Dorian Gray: The Wayward Lord DVD review
(Mon 06/09)
This story takes a long time to get going, and the mystery of Dorian Gray’s portrait is never explained, but there’s a real sense of time and place in the movie
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done film review
(Mon 06/09)
A title not to be mistaken as being addressed to the filmmaker by his skeptical dad in reaction to this movie, but maybe should be, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done manages to come off as both baffling and mystifying at
Jonah Hex review
(Sat 04/09)
Josh Brolin as the surly supernatural gunslinger is a very different kind of cowboy dodging bullets across the Wild West, or rather Deep South, settling old scores and new ones that may not have even arrived, in some as
Shooting Robert King review
(Fri 03/09)
Laced through with humour, revulsion, and the ever-present whiff of despair, Shooting Robert King gets you onto an emotional merry-go-round and keeps you revolving
Four Lions DVD review
(Fri 03/09)
Set further from the wilderness of the training camps portrayed on the news, Four Lions follows the farce of wannabe suicide bombers from Sheffield and their attempt to strike a blow in the heart of London for Muslims ev
City Island film review
(Thu 02/09)
The concept behind City Island is that everyone has a secret but, unfortunately, when these secrets are revealed, they’re something we’ve seen a million times before
Going the Distance film review
(Thu 02/09)
Going the Distance is a romantic comedy, and the experience of watching it could be likened to one of the most boring conversations you’ve ever had in your life
The Last Exorcism film review: Lucifer Stalks The Bible Belt
(Wed 01/09)
Tossing together mockumentary, evangelical fundamentalism and Rosemary's Baby, and spicing it up with a dash of devil worship, The Last Exorcism may also be the first of its kind in weirdly overhauling the horror genre
Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Public Enemy #1 film reviews
(Tue 31/08)
Jacques Mesrine was a flamboyant French gangster whose life story is so spectacular that one film was not enough and so there are two; Mesrine: Killer Instinct, was the first and Mesrine: Public Enemy #1, is the sequel.
Jonah Hill's new film Cyrus review
(Tue 31/08)
A bad timing love triangle and intermittent emotional brawl, Cyrus swings between tragic moments and awkward laughs, with a likewise indecisive female object of desire who can't seem to make up her mind between two comp
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel film review
(Sat 28/08)
The mention of Hugh Hefner conjures up visions of an aging Lothario in a silk smoking jacket, surrounded by bunnies, hosting extravaganzas in his ostentatious mansion
