Film Review: How to Train Your Dragon 2 3D (2014)
byHaven’t dragons just come roaring back into vogue lately? Smaug. Godzilla. Daenerys has three. Even the latest Bond flick (Skyfall) got into the act with…
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Film Review: Under the Skin (2014)
byThe premise of Jonathan Glazer’s film, Under the Skin, doesn’t sound like anything new: an alien comes to earth, taking the image of a…
Film Review: The Zero Theorem (2014)
byHow do you review a film that completely baffles you and yet entertained you in equal measure? Sometimes you just have to accept that…
Film Review: Seduced and Abandoned (2014)
by‘I look back on my life and its 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s…
Film Review: Sister (2012)
byWhile Jennifer Lawrence has drawn the limelight in America in recent years, an equally impressive rise to prominence has been made across the Atlantic…
Film Review: Pompeii (2014)
byI do have a little of sympathy for Paul W. S. Anderson, the director of Pompeii. When your source material is a mountain chundering…
Film Review: Tracks (2013)
byIt’s hard to say what inspired Robyn Davidson to embark on a 2700-kilometre journey across desert, unqualified and perhaps unsuspecting of exactly what she…
Film Review: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
byIndeed, some patience would have been nice. The initial set-up in Adam Cozad and David Koepp’s screenplay is so rushed in getting to the point that the characters miss an opportunity to be fleshed out. However, in fairness, it’s a slick, rollicking popcorn movie with a far-fetched plot and a nice sense of humour, so probably best not to take it too seriously.
Film Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
byIn Jackson’s view, it seems nothing is done unless it is done to excess and this dizzying flurry of action may be exhausting for some. However, it is nothing if not a spectacle and leaves me eagerly waiting for more.
Film Review: Delivery Man (2013)
byA middle-aged slacker, who as a young man had effectively masturbated for a living under the name ‘Starbuck’, discovers that he is the father of 533 kids. I thought Delivery Man’s plot sounded quite interesting when I saw the trailer for this a few weeks prior. How hindsight makes fools of us all.