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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 [ 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 thinks [ 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 [ 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 a complete [ 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 [ READ MORE ]

Avatar Day – movie preview

  • August 21st, 2009
  • Posted in Films

    It seems somewhat absurd to be reviewing what is essentially a trailer, but James Cameron’s gargantuan Hype Machine is shifting into 2nd gear, the result being a global event showing 15minutes of teaser clips in Imax cinemas, and cannot be ignored. Numerous people have already documented a shot-for-shot rundown of what footage was [ READ MORE ]

Mesrine: Part 1 – Killer Instinct movie review

  • August 4th, 2009
  • Posted in Films

It would be increasingly hard to dispute that Vincent Cassel is France’s most prolific and versatile actor living today. His starring role in 1995 Parisian ghetto drama “La Haine” brought him to the attention of the world; subsequent roles in infamous works such as Dobermann, Eastern Promises, and Irréversible have shown that he’s not averse [ READ MORE ]

Brüno – movie review

  • July 9th, 2009
  • Posted in Films

    Brüno is a provocative and confrontational work of cinema, thankfully it also happens to be hilariously funny. Essentially a gay “Borat 2,” Sacha Baron Cohen and his production team revisit the comedic fertile ground of aggravating unsuspecting individuals; this time however, Baron Cohen’s assumed persona is that of “like, totally” uber-gay Austrian fashionista [ READ MORE ]

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