Archive for the ‘ Films ’ Category

The Secret of Kells – film review

  • February 6th, 2010
  • Posted in Films

When the Oscar nominations for Best Animated Feature were announced, film fans around the globe were blindsided by the inclusion of one contender that barely anyone had heard of – “The Secret of Kells” had beaten multi-million dollar spinning Hollywood fare such as “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs”, or even (feasibly) “Monsters vs Aliens” [ READ MORE ]

Planet Hulk – DVD review

  • January 25th, 2010
  • Posted in Films

The fruitful relationship between Marvel Animation studios and Lionsgate Home Entertainment continues with another direct-to-dvd movie, following in the footsteps of recent gems such as “Ultimate Avengers I & II”, and “The Invincible Iron Man”. The most recent of these releases was the “Hulk Vs.” dvd which saw animated re-enactments of two popular comic [ READ MORE ]

Ninja Assassin – movie review

  • January 22nd, 2010
  • Posted in Films

James McTeigue is a director who made his name as the assistant director on the “Matrix Trilogy”, and swiftly followed that work with a very capable adaptation of “V For Vendetta.” – V was a film that is oft maligned, but in all honesty is a far stronger piece of cinema than some quarters might [ READ MORE ]

The Worst Ten Films of 2009

  • December 22nd, 2009
  • Posted in Films

. . . or more to the point, the biggest disappointments of the year – after all, with cheaper technology and software, anyone with sufficient inclination can string together 90 minutes of edited footage these days, irrespective of quality. Just ask Marc Price, director of the so-called “£45 movie”  - Colin. Anyway, I didn’t muster enough patience [ READ MORE ]

Top Ten Films of 2009 – my personal choices

  • December 21st, 2009
  • Posted in Films

Sometimes it can be hard to compile a truly cohesive “Best Of” list – do you want to masquerade one’s own highbrow credentials, or is it simply a question of which film had you guzzling the most buckets of popcorn? Ultimately it boils down to a smidgen of personal taste, and how well one [ READ MORE ]

Where The Wild Things Are – movie review

  • December 10th, 2009
  • Posted in Films

Director Spike Jonze has taken the novel approach of redefining the phrase “Kids Film,” this is an important key to one’s appreciation of Where The Wild things Are. Normally those two words together conjur simplistic, garish entertainment – cartoon zebras, pratfalls, product placement, logos printed on lunchboxes, and so on. “WTWTA” is not that sort [ READ MORE ]

in defence of District 9

  • September 9th, 2009
  • Posted in Films

  Okay, so I’m going to break my own rules for this one instance and INCLUDE SPOILERS in this little rant of mine..  D9 has been out in the UK for the best part of a week, and I’ll make no bones about it – I LOVED every minute of it. So, it was a great surprise [ READ MORE ]

Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee film review

  • September 7th, 2009
  • Posted in Films

Shane Meadows continues his highly fruitful relationship with Warp Films – a collaboration that to date has created modern classics Dead Man’s Shoes and This is England. Shaking things up a bit, he and producer Mark Herbert have embarked on a new venture – The 5 Day Feature. Cryptically enough, this involves filming [ READ MORE ]

Miss March: Generation Penetration movie review

  • September 7th, 2009
  • Posted in Films

Stars and creators of American sketch show “The Whitest Kids You Know” make their leap into cinema with this effort, which has inexplicably attained the subtitle “:Generation Penetration” since arriving on these shores, just to really spell out that This Is A Teen Sex Comedy. Zach Cregger & Trevor Moore play the film’s two leads – [ READ MORE ]

Mesrine part 2: Public Enemy No 1 movie review

  • August 31st, 2009
  • Posted in Films

  Deftly picking up the narrative from Part 1 without even a recap, this is not a sequel so much as a conclusion of Jacques Mesrine’s life story. Whilst it is strong enough to exist on its own, audiences would be well advised to see this only after watching the first part. At the start of this chapter, [ READ MORE ]