Traditional print media has been much in the news lately, with the most constant story over the last five years the impending death of the newspaper. Print journalism, it seems, is on its last legs – driven to bankruptcy by rising costs, falling advertising revenues and the availability of free content on the internet – […]
Uninspiring and insipid, this contemporary take on the zombie genre sees a group of gorgeous twenty somethings trapped in Moscow trying desperately to get away from an endless attack launched by nasty id-like blobs of energy.
Despite a quite extraordinary performance from Meryl Streep, this is a deeply disappointing film, plagued by a dreadful structure and the surprisingly strange decision to frame the story around a senile and rather pathetic Baroness Thatcher, sadly musing over the ghost of her husband Dennis. As she wanders around her house, her mind wanders further, […]
From Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar (Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother) comes a twisted mad-scientist fable, with Antonio Banderas cast as a wealthy surgeon experimenting with bizarre plastic surgery in an isolated, art-filled mansion. With a deliberately preposterous storyline involving burning bodies, evil brothers, rape, suicide, revenge, sexual identity […]
Incoherent and inconsistent, this martial arts action-adventure spectacular from master Hong Kong director Hark Tsui is yet another disappointing outing for actor Jet Li, with 3D unable to add anything extra special to the wuxia genre. The action is dominated by wire work – with characters spinning and jumping impossibly as they fight it out […]
Wickedly original and smartly entertaining, The Guard stars beefy Irishman Brendan Gleeson as the kind of anti-super-hero we just want more of: he may not be able to leap even very small things in a single bound, but he’ll drop a bad guy with a withering one-liner or a profane comment that lies somewhere between […]
Both the title and the top billing of Robert de Niro and Monica Belluci are somewhat misleading in this three-part portmanteau film, comprising separate comic tales of love and lovers – all with a distinctly Italian flavour.
If recently you’ve had that unnerving sensation that the world is more than a little unsettled, that there is some end-of-the-world force looming, then you will understand the sentiment of this tale of a man battling the demons of his mind. Michael Shannon turns in a performance worthy of an Oscar nomination in this independent […]
Somewhere in between tiresome and loathsome, the Brit teen comedy The Inbetweeners might raise a few sniggers with fans and its target audience of 17-year-old boys, but it’s too gross, too blunt, too puerile to provide much entertainment for anyone else. Yes, it does manage to capture some of the dreadful awkwardness of being a […]
Based on the true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan freedom fighter who went back to primary school in order to learn to read, this is an uplifting, romanticised and gently-paced film infused with the dry beauty of the Kenyan landscape and powered by the moist-eyed performance of Oliver Litondo in the title role.
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