Quick Review of “Buried”

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Quite a concept! A feature film shot entirely in a coffin. Well at least the man inside is alive and has a mobile phone! More an experiment in storytelling - this should really have been made for radio rather than cinema - although the performance from Ryan Reynolds keeps you riveted to see what happens.

Quick Review of “Pelican Blood”

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This sometimes haunting, sometimes lost film about two suicidal people is - like its main characters - pretty to watch but never quite sure where its going. Yet despite the looseness, its an intriguing tale that comes home strongly.

Review of “Wall Street Money Never Sleeps”

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The man is back, fresh from a stretch in the clink, and he’s not looking too shabby either. Twenty-three years on, Michael Douglas reprises his role as the infamous corporate raider Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone’s grandiose and sprawling sequel to Wall Street – a much anticipated film that glitters with the spoils of greed […]

Review of “Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore”

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After a promising opening credits sequence – with the full James Bond treatment – the Cats & Dogs sequel proves as charming and funny as a tray of cat litter, and surely requires urgent euthanasia. Nine years on from the original, which was so full of quirky charm and fun, the new writers and new […]