The Dark Knight Rises may be the most overwrought of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, but it still closes the series out on an extremely satisfying high note. Although not as viscerally effective as The Dark Knight an...
Years of talk, speculation and false starts made it seem like a new Mad Max movie would never happen. Finally, here are set pics to prove that it really is going forward, once more directed by George Miller, who helmed t...
In a fun and good-hearted piece of news, it turns out that comic character Hellboy has found some time in his busy monster-fighting schedule for some heroing of a different sort. Six year old Zachary, a young boy underg...
This is a film I hadn’t seen since 1990, and I remembered really enjoying it way back when. Actually, when Bull Durham (25th August 1989 in the UK- although weirdly it seems to have been released in a different country e...
I have seen the Earth destroyed in so many different ways—asteroids, storms, zombie plagues, giant monsters—that a film such as Lorene Scafaria’s Seeking A Friend For the End of the World is something of a relief. There’...
Reviewed by: Ginny Foran “Princess defies parents’ order to marry a proper suitor and runs away” could be the tagline for Pixar’s Brave. At first glance this Scottish fairy-tale has a less than or...
Following in the footsteps of some online comrades that have explored the same foolish experiment, I’ve decided to do a Birthday Series column where I review a movie released on or around my birthday starting with ...
Brit Marling stars and co-writes another sci-fi head-turner with The Sound of My Voice, an exploration of cult leaders and their ability to ensnare followers.
The Gate Release date: May 15th 1987 [rating:3/5] If there’s anything that one remembers about 1987’s The Gate, it’s that it beat mega-dud Ishtar at the box office twenty-four years ago. Well, that and it had one of the...
I remember reading Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi several years ago in the summer of 2003, as part of a summer bookclub thing with a few fellow college friends. It seemed like a safe bet; popular, vague aspirations of be...
[rating:1.5/5] The world of Nicholas Sparks is not one of my preferred cinematic vacation spots. I’ll admit this up front, and concede that the author has absolutely perfected this white-washed but utterly contrived univ...