Review: Chronicle
All superhero films are, on some level, empowerment fantasies. Their selling point is having the weak individual get the power...
Film Reviews
REVIEW: Martha Marcy May Marlene
John Hawkes has always been a compelling onscreen presence. His unruly mop of hair, pointed features and thin-set build have...
Film Review(No.2): CARNAGE (2011)
Carnage is billed as a comedy of no manners, but it’s precisely in the characters’ initial excess of manners, and...
DVD Review: PERFECT SENSE
Perfect Sense is well named, because it is a perfect film. And that’s not a word I use lightly. This...
DVD Review: DRIVE
Drive, one of cinema’s smash hits from last year, is like a bad car crash - you know you shouldn’t...
Review: CARNAGE
Carnage is the latest film from Roman Polanski. It is set in New York and you may ask yourself: if...
DVD Review: RED STATE
Red State tells the story of three teenage boys lured into a trap by the extremist Five Points Church. This...
Review: The Woman in Black
“Slap some stubble on him and e’ll look 10 years older.” At least this must have been the thinking behind...
DVD Review: TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, one of 2011’s best received films, is released on DVD on January 30th. Having garnered a...
DVD Review: PRESSED
It's never going to be easy changing career paths from singing to acting, but some stars have been lucky -...
DVD Review: CRAZY STUPID LOVE
Crazy, Stupid, Love follows Cal (Steve Carrell), a man who's split from his wife of 25 years (Julianne Moore) and...
DVD Review: THE CHANGE UP
In The Change-Up the director of Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin) and the writers of The Hangover (Jon Lucas and Scott...
REVIEW: Haywire
You’d be right to be dubious about Steven Soderbergh’s latest globe-trotting spy-thriller Haywire, given the story behind film’s genesis. Supposedly...
DVD Review: BOARDWALK EMPIRE Season 1
Boardwalk Empire is up there with the best HBO dramas. It doesn’t hit the heights of The Wire and The...