Review: “Wolf Creek”
Playing out like an Australian outback version of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", Greg McClean's gritty and unrelenting "Wolf Creek" is a cut above your...
Review: “Gangs of New York”
When it comes to music and movies I'm far more loyal to product rather than manufacturer - meaning I don't really have a group...
Review: “Mona Lisa Smile”
A decade ago Peter Weir delivered "Dead Poets Society", an emotionally powerful tale of students coming of age in college with the help of...
Review: “House of Sand and Fog”
Not that long ago the award-winning novel "The Shipping News" was turned into an Xmas-release movie designed purely to try and nab Oscars. In...
Review: “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”
Its been nearly five decades coming, but at last a live-action adaptation of what many consider the greatest book of the 20th Century has...
Review: “Two Weeks Notice”
Two successful comic stars who work well off each other teaming for the first time could've picked a far more original vehicle than the...
Review: “The Shipping News”
When you think gripping cinema, Lasse Hallstrom isn't a name that pops up. The man's films have a signature style of being very slow-paced...
Review: “You’ve Got Mail”
The best romantic comedies are those which try and take risks - the ones with real hard-core emotion and gags which are intelligent, edgy...
Review: “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers”
"The Two Towers" proves that "Lord of the Rings" is not a trilogy, but rather one massive flick chopped into three parts. There's no...
Review: “Flight of the Phoenix”
With most remakes, filmmakers try and update the story a little and if there was something wrong or not so great about the first...
Review: “The Aviator”
With all the hype and Oscar talk you'd think "The Aviator" was a great movie. It's not. Certainly Scorsese's best remembered work...
Review: “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events”
If there's one thing "A Series of Unfortunate Events" effectively demonstrates, it's that even with a strong cast and a big budget, one can...
Review: “Narc”
A flawed but hard modern drug world oriented cop thriller, Joe Carnahan's new flick owes a lot to William Friedkin's "The French Connection". ...
Review: “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”
Peter Jackson's trilogy has been a monumental achievement both on a production level, and a critical/financial level with each of the previous two entries...
Review: “Lawrence of Arabia”
Considered one of the greatest films ever made, certainly one of the biggest epics of all time, the tale of the controversial T.E. Lawrence...
Review: “The Prince of Egypt”
With so much hype surrounding this biblical epic, the big question is will it live up to it? The answer is both yes and...
Review: “Superman (1978)”
Superhero movies range far and wide with differing levels of success, but the story hardest to tell on the big screen from that genre...
Review: “King Kong”
There's an old joke about a 500-pound gorilla sitting anywhere he wants to that suitably applies to the leading monkey of "King Kong", and...
Review: “Vanilla Sky”
Much like "What Dreams May Come" and "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence" - a combination of various successful players/styles has resulted in a nice looking art...
Review: “Lantana”
The Aussie film scoring a ton of awards is most certainly an adult-oriented flick in terms of story, in fact not many people under...
Review: “Maid in Manhattan”
Hollywood's latest fairytale cinematic romance is a somewhat dated comedy of class & manners but thanks to the chemistry of its stars it manages...
Review: “X-Men”
The live-action superhero film genre has earned a rather notorious reputation for producing some stinkers. The first "Batman" film was excellent but the...
Review: “Star Trek: Nemesis”
The old curse theory that only the even-numbered Trek movies are the good ones has been left barren by this - Khan, Undiscovered Country...
Review: “Something’s Gotta Give”
I'm not sure who Nancy Meyers is paying to cut her trailers but it should be more as with both "What Women Want" and...
Review: “The Majestic”
Contrived like you wouldn't believe, "The Majestic" is an attempt to do a modern day recreation of the famed Frank Capra movies of...
Review: “Star Trek: Insurrection”
With the exception of the last film "Nemesis", the famous "Trek curse" has proven to be accurate. That curse being that all the odd-numbered...
Review: “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou”
Whilst bearing some relation in tone to his previous flick - 2001's "The Royal Tenenbaums", Wes Anderson's new feature feels like its taken two...
Review: “Proof of Life”
In 1995 Taylor Hackford helmed what I consider the worst Stephen King adaptation yet - the god awfully boring "Dolores Claiborne". Yet funnily enough...
Review: “Brokeback Mountain”
It may be breaking new ground in terms of how some audiences react to it, but Director Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" itself is at...
Review: “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe”
New Line has "Lord of the Rings", Warner Bros. has "Harry Potter", and now Disney makes its valiant attempt to kickstart a major fantasy...