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After failing to win over audiences as a latter day, burnt-out Jim Henson figure in The Beaver, Mel Gibson returns to more comfortable territory in the funny and surprisingly hard-edged prison comedy-actioner, How I Spent my Summer Vacation. Narrating the action via a wry, seen-it-all-before voice-over, Gibson plays a career criminal who, in the opening scene [...]
Dark Shadows brings together the familiar union of Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and my increasing concern about my waning interest in the partnership. I believe that the actor and director are destined to collaborate just as Tarantino and Samuel L. Jackson or Scorsese and DiCaprio will continue to work together, however this latest film is [...]
To paraphrase the great Dina Washington, what a difference a day makes in Jeff, Who Lives at Home, the second studio film from mumblecore merchants-turned burgeoning Hollywood players, the Duplass brothers. Opening with a very funny scene, eponymous hero (played with an innocent naivety by Jason Segel) is sat in contemplative solitude using an old [...]
Starting in 1999, when four friends (Jim, Kevin, Finch and Oz) decide to do all they can to lose their virginity by the time they graduate high school, then moving forward a year for a sequel built around them meeting up after a year at college and spending the summer at a lake/beach house, before wrapping [...]
The recent spate of powerful euro-centric police procedurals to crop up on both terrestrial TV and Sky have managed to gain the approval of critics and audiences alike. One of these celebrated shows proudly wears its US influences on its sleeve while managing to retain that dark and sobering tone found in neighbouring programmes such [...]
A whole host of gangsters, pimps, low-lifes, call-girls, ex-cons and bent cops move in and out of each other’s lives during a couple of busy days in Southend-on-Sea in Essex. Jimmy The Gent (Peter Wight) is up from London to see local big man Shrewd Eddie (Paul Freeman) and has a big wedge of cash [...]
London seems to be awash with potentially violent males lurking on every street corner, ready to explode with pent up rage given the right situation – if homegrown cinema is anything to go by. Debut writer-director Kieron Hawkes’ Piggy is another depressingly gritty tale of modern-day woe from the UK capital’s ‘mean’ streets that follows [...]
British bulldog Jason Statham always manages to beguile you on screen with his seemingly boundless choreographed energy and corny one-line growls that have become his reliable trademarks. Without such qualities of seasoned action veterans like Schwarzenegger and Stallone in their heyday, the Statham flick would be dead in the water, like an action flick of [...]
Arrow Films delves once again into the treasure trove of cult genre favourites from the video shop era, bringing their restoration process to the Dario Argento-produced 1985 horror Demons and its sequel from the following year, Demons 2. On a subway train, a student named Cheryl is offered free cinema tickets by a mysterious masked [...]
After last year’s re-release of The Lion King, the 1991 animation milestone is the next film from the Disney vault to get the 3D treatment. Based on the classic fairytale, it’s rightly regarded as a classic and always welcome back to cinema screens. I’m still slightly unconvinced about converting 2D cel animation into 3D though. [...]
Like February’s superhero flick Chronicle, Silent House is another genre piece which uses a potentially gimmicky filming format (this time it’s the single, continuous take) to surprisingly good effect. It was the same method deployed in the original Uruguay version a couple of years back, and deemed efficient enough to use again, but despite the [...]
In a lot of ways actually reviewing The Lucky One is a fruitless pursuit. Based on novel by Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook, Dear John, The Last Song et al), it’s another high-concept weepy scientifically designed to manipulate as many tears as possible out the audience. These films rely on the strength of their elevator pitch; [...]
Trials Evolution. Has it evolved? – YES, Yes it has! I for one was extremely excited about the release of Trials Evolution. After enjoying its predecessor Trials HD, its fair to say that this game didn’t disappoint me. In fact, it exceeded what I had expected from a sequel and was elated to find that [...]
Let’s start with the bottom line: Safety Not Guaranteed is one of the best films of the year. Aubrey Plaza is phenomenal in the lead as Darius Britt, a magazine intern who goes undercover to investigate a man looking for a partner to travel back in time with. Colin Trevorrow makes an absolutely fantastic feature [...]
Leading star Gina Rodriguez has been attracting considerable and well-deserved attention for her brilliant breakout performance in Filly Brown, coming from an acting background to then shine as an aspiring hip-hop artist in co-directors Youssef Delara and Michael D. Olmos’ second film together. The opening scene introduces us to Majo (Rodriguez), a.k.a. Filly Brown, rapping [...]
The boys are back in town, looking a little older (some sporting facial hair and others possible plastic surgery), but certainly none the wiser when it comes to women. Jim (Jason Biggs), Oz (Chris Klein), Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) and Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) are still a bunch of ‘little boys lost’, only to find [...]
College can often be a trying and even traumatic time for some, but on hand to help the students of Seven Oaks, a stately-looking East Coast establishment, are a trio of prim and proper female students comprised of group leader Violet (Greta Gerwig), Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and Heather (Carrie MacLemore). Managing the campus’ Suicide Prevention [...]
Perennial Sundance figure Paul Dano returns with this low-key character piece in which he plays Joby, a washed-up, marginally successful rocker (and owner of a horrible wispy goatee and numerous pieces of rubbish body art) in the final stages of a less-than-amicable divorce from his estranged wife. Holed up in a dank motel in the [...]
Abandoned on the doorstep of a monastery in Spain, Ambrosio (Vincent Cassel) becomes a devout friar known far and wide for his ethics and traditionalism, much like the Capuchin monks who raised him. However, after suffering a series of terrorising dreams, he becomes entranced by a masked figure who takes shelter in the monastery. Discovering [...]
The sun-drenched landscape of LA is home to a set of characters who have their lives momentary disrupted by the arrival of a young and vivacious conceptual artist from New York (played by Olivia Thirlby) in this film by director Ry Russo-Young (co-written by Tiny Furniture’s director, Lena Dunham). John Krasinski is Peter, a Hollywood [...]
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