The truth is way more unlikely than fiction in this documentary about the subculture of (mostly) men who live, it seems, only to beat the high scores on video games like Pac-Man, Centipede and the king of them all: Donkey Kong. That was – you’re thinking - back in the pre-digital era of the 1980’s […]
South African lawyer turned film director Gavin Hood made a huge impact in 2005 with his film Tsotsi, and now follows it up with a timely and superbly structured thriller that examines the morality and personal impact of State-sponsored torture. The title of the film refers to the practice of “extraordinary rendition,” used by the […]
Now here’s a really interesting question: what would you do if threatened with a horrible extinction – if you were certain that there was no escape from death? Would you turn to religion, science or drugs? This problem is the dark heart of Frank Darabont’s screen adaptation of the Stephen King novella The Mist. […]
In Dan in Real Life, newspaper agony aunt Dan Burns (Steve Carell) is on the verge of breaking the big time with talk of his column being syndicated nationally. His success seems especially deserved as he has been bringing up his three girls, teenagers Jane (Alison Pill) and Cara (Brittany Robertson), and young Lilly (Marlene […]
A romantic comedy about divorce? Ahhhhh, how sweet! In a storyline that owes much to TV’s How I Met Your Mother (but, unlike that show, doesn’t make me physically ill), Ryan Reynolds plays William Hayes, an advertising executive about to sign his divorce papers. After learning about the true facts behind the birds and […]
For many people, Richard Attenborough will always be associated with war films - perhaps as a dapper British officer, a grumbling naval engineer, or a determined sergeant major. He made a name for himself as a character actor early in his long career and famously played Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett in The Great Escape and […]
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