Review: “Turistas”
Move over morally responsible and athletic girls in tight tank tops, it now seems that Western tourists with good bodies and bad attitudes have...
Review: “The Fountain”
Profoundly personal, "The Fountain" is a somewhat visionary love story across time that is so gut-wrenchingly intimate, it's as if Director Darren Aronofsky literally...
Review: “Deja Vu”
A return to formulaic thrillers for Director Tony Scott, "Deja Vu" plays out like a slicker and more realistic hybrid of a Bruckheimer...
Review: “Casino Royale”
A superbly made 'restart' to the James Bond franchise, "Royale" is a bold mix of the current big spectacle Bond formula action movie combined...
Review: “Catch A Fire”
Tales of ordinary people overcoming an oppressive regime are nothing new in cinema, but of course we now live in a time when the...
Review: “The Prestige”
If "The Illusionist" was a relatively mainstream movie posing as an art house film, then "The Prestige" is an elaborate art house film posing...
Review: “Flags Of Our Fathers”
Having over two dozen films under his belt, Clint Eastwood's resume as a director is one of the strongest out there whether it be...
Review: “Stormbreaker”
If there was ever a case to be made against doing a young James Bond film series, "Stormbreaker" (aka. "Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker" in...
Review: “The Grudge 2”
The sequel to the brilliant US remake of "The Ring" was a shambles, and now the sequel to the pretty decent US remake of...
Review: “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning”
In a time when the horror genre was being drowned in remakes of Japanese supernatural thrillers and PG-13 spook stories, the 2003 remake of...
Review: “The Departed”
Reviewers everywhere are praising "The Departed" to high heaven, with some usually sane regulars going overboard with their espousing of praise for this latest...
Review: “The Last King of Scotland”
A solid dramatic thriller in its own right, 'Last King' is lifted into higher territory by superb performances, intriguing subject matter, impressive direction and...
Review: “The Black Dahlia”
An attempt to explore one of Hollywood's more sinister unsolved mysteries turns into an over cooked ham of a film, overstuffed with vampish performances...
Review: “Hollywoodland”
Looking at "Hollywoodland", one gets the notion that had they decided to premiere it on HBO instead of trying their luck in a limited...
Review: “The Covenant”
Whilst the premise sounds like a male version of cult hit "The Craft", the latest PG-13 supernatural thriller to try and strike box-office gold...
Review: “The Wicker Man”
Neil LaBute's attempt to remake the 1973 UK cult classic "The Wicker Man" aims high, but falls dismally short of the mark. Like many...
Review: “Accepted”
A banal little college rebellion comedy, "Accepted" plays like "Animal House" if it were being made for the Hallmark Channel. Hampered with a...
Review: “Snakes on a Plane”
The concept of camp is like the concept of cool, those who deliberately try to become it often simply aren't. When it comes to...
Review: “The Descent”
British director Neil Marshall follows up his disappointing werewolf horror/comedy "Dog Soldiers" with the excellent al- girl spelunking claustrophobic horror flick "The Descent", arguably...
Review: “The Night Listener”
An intriguing idea that never comes into focus, "The Night Listener" offers glimpse of a rich psychological thriller of which Alfred Hitchcock would...
Review: “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby”
Funnier than expected, "Talladega Nights" follows in the vein of Ferrell's "Anchorman" - a funny film but one that thinks it's much more hilarious...
Review: “Barnyard”
Cows are female, bulls are male and unfortunately at present there exists no surgical procedure to help bovines seeking the trans-gender route. It's a...
Review: “Miami Vice”
With great titles like "The Insider", "Collateral" and "Heat" under his belt, Director Michael Mann has proven himself time and again a solid filmmaker...
Review: “John Tucker Must Die”
An effervescently light high school comedy, 'Tucker' proves a more enjoyable little movie than its ads promise thanks to it's comfortably mean spirit of...
Review: “Clerks II”
Having run the gamut from the foul-mouthed indie scene ("Clerks") to the full studio sentimental romantic drama ("Jersey Girl"), New Jersey director Kevin Smith...
Review: “Lady in the Water”
With 'Lady', director M. Night Shyamalan continues his increasingly self-absorbed and often embarrassing slide into a near parody of the style which made him...
Review: “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”
In 2003 along came a Summer movie whose performance surprised everyone - the first "Pirates of the Caribbean". An adaptation of a Disney ride,...
Review: “The Devil Wears Prada”
Marketed as both a dark Meryl Streep comedy and a sweet-natured Anne Hathaway coming of age story, 'Prada' feels more like "The Princess Diaries"...
Review: “Superman Returns”
With Bryan Singer having successfully kicked off the new wave of 'serious minded' comic book movies with 2000's "X-Men", it came as little surprise...
Review: “Click”
2006 is turning out to be the year of mis-marketed mainstream comedies. Just the other week came "The Break-Up", a film that tried to...