Adam Brodie

Adam Brodie 28 May 2012

★★★1/2☆ Snow White and the Huntsman is a clichéd epic fantasy. Which doesn’t mean it’s a bad movie. In fact...

Adam Brodie 28 May 2012

★★☆☆☆ The Artist is pure craftsmanship. And, as a silent movie made for a 2012 audience, it is also a...

Adam Brodie 20 May 2012

★★★☆☆ If filmmaking was a marathon, then The Descendants would be the runner that tripped at the starting line. In...

Adam Brodie 20 May 2012

★★★★☆ If I had two words with which to sum up Haywire, they would be ‘controlled’ and ‘purposeful’. This film...

Adam Brodie 31 March 2012

★★★☆☆ I suppose any review of the 3D re-release of Titanic, still one of the highest grossing films ever, is...

Adam Brodie 21 March 2012

★★★★☆ Wild Bill is that most terrible of critical foes: an unremarkably good film. It is the sort of movie...

Adam Brodie 18 March 2012

★★★★★ Most of my favourite films are the ones made in the image of nightmares. This because, crafting a nightmare...

Adam Brodie 11 March 2012

★★★★☆ In Darkness is a film that puts you in the shoes of Holocaust victims, and, in doing so, makes...

Adam Brodie 8 March 2012

Cleanskin is an ambitious movie. Not many action films would take the trouble to provide the terrorists with as much...

Adam Brodie 2 March 2012

Sometimes, when you love something, you have to let it go. This is a message Andrew Stanton, writer/director of John...

Adam Brodie 27 February 2012

The BFI-packaged Ozu student comedies are 4 very different films. Days of Youth (Days) is a straightforward 2 men-1 girl...

Adam Brodie 13 February 2012

We Need To Talk About Kevin (hereafter to be referred to as Kevin, so I don’t lose the will to...

Adam Brodie 3 February 2012

All superhero films are, on some level, empowerment fantasies. Their selling point is having the weak individual get the power...

Adam Brodie 29 January 2012

Perfect Sense is well named, because it is a perfect film. And that’s not a word I use lightly. This...