We get so used to watching slick films from the Hollywood dream factory that it’s great to be reminded that there are other American stories to tell, and other ways to tell an American story. Half Nelson is an independent film that premiered with great acclaim at last year’s Sundance Film Festival and has gone […]
There’s nothing remotely original here in this supernatural horror-thriller by numbers. All the standard icons of the genre are slapped together mechanically, including innocent children, devil worshipping small-town folk, creepy mansions and priests flicking through biblical manuscripts desperately trying to discover what evil will plague the next scene before the pages mysteriously catch fire.
Writers Chad […]
You may have never heard of “stepping”, a dance form that’s part war dance, part human percussion, and all urban street ballet. It’s performed as an elaborately synchronized group routine and – with its African roots – has been popularized by fiercely competitive African-American and Latino college fraternities in America. Stomp The Yard takes us […]
Billed as a sexy and charming romantic comedy, Director Pierre Salvadori backs himself into a corner with this French film by severely restraining the comedy, the sexiness and the romance. What’s left are a few moments of charm, fleshed out with plenty of lingering shots of Audrey Tatou and Gad Elmaleh as they gaze […]
The novel Point of Impact by Pulitzer Prize winning film critic Steven Hunter is the kind you pick up at the airport and leave on the plane when you’re finished. The film version Shooter is in the same category – a good adventure yarn with few pauses for breath, mixing conspiracy theory, high-action shootouts and […]
What is every teenager’s horror nightmare? To be grounded in the suburbs with no phone, TV, internet or X-box. Oh my goodness! I’ll have to watch the neighbours instead! And that’s what Kale (Shia LaBeouf) does, in true Rear Window style, when he’s sentenced to three months house arrest for attacking a teacher. Whilst James […]
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