The Israeli contender for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Academy Awards, Footnote is a weighty dark comedy played out between two competing academics who bring out the worst in each other as they strive for recognition in their narrowest of narrow disciplines – the comparative linguistics of ancient Jewish texts. But don’t run […]
You get just what you’d expect from this Nicholas Sparks romance – good-looking people, ever so soft lighting, and music just tender enough to stir your soul while you watch the inevitability of soul mates finding true love - with a few tear-jerking trials and tribulations along the way. Predictable? Well, of course! This is […]
British auteur Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives) is highly regarded for his formal and meticulously crafted approach to cinema, and in his much anticipated adaptation of Terrence Rattigan’s THE DEEP BLUE SEA, he continues his obsession with representing memory and human experience on the screen with extreme and deliberate care.
Sitting somewhere between nostalgia and limp sex romp, American Reunion adds a fourth (but not necessarily final) installment to the teen gross-out franchise that took the world by surprise in 1999 when the relatively low-budget first film American Pie took close to $300 million at the box office. Two sequels followed quickly – continuing the […]
For all those people who still believe a kiss from your one true love can save you from, well, just about anything, this is for you. Not so much a re-telling as a pre-telling of the Snow White story, this is a romantic panto-style romp through goody-gum drops land, full of the best natured fun […]
“Yesterday I was locked in a dungeon. Today I am fighting for the universe”. So says Agenor, cousin to main-man Perseus as they fight their way through the dusty burning underworld to find Perseus’ father Zeus and his father Cronos - the nasty Titan who is about to destroy the earth. Yes, it’s a fathers-and-sons […]
“I’m looking for a good book to read,” I announced to my family over the Christmas break, and the almost-teen handed me a copy of The Hunger Games, the first in a trilogy of novels for young people by Suzanne Collins. I was combing his bookshelves the next day for Catching Fire, the second in […]
This is a seriously well made, kick-ass martial-arts action movie that fans of the genre will absolutely adore. The energy of the film bursts through the screen like a boot through butter, and although it’s more violent than the MA15+ rating suggests, the fight choreography is so fresh and frantic and the pacing so careful […]
Watching Andrew Stanton’s new SciFi flick John Carter reminds me of a conversation I had with a recently divorced friend earlier in the week. To echo his remarks about dating a twenty year old, it is exquisite banality. Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ book A Princess from Mars, the film opens with a young Edgar […]
This crime thriller from Norway has an entertainingly schizophrenic feel as it twists its way from daring heist movie to farcical black comedy, with a few drops of serious human drama thrown in for good measure. Well made, too clever for its own good in places, and lacking in an empathetic central character, it is […]
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