Archive for the ‘ Films ’ Category

Red Mist – movie review

  • July 3rd, 2009
  • Posted in Films

Director Paddy Breathnach returns from the relative success of low-budget horror “Shrooms” with more of the same, making sure to tick every genre cliché in the process. European location filming as an anonymous American city? Check. Beautiful US starlet and a supporting cast of EU unknowns? Check. Spooky Hospital? Check. Malfunctioning video cameras; flickering strip [ READ MORE ]

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – movie review

  • June 15th, 2009
  • Posted in Films

Anyone who has known me for longer than about half an hour will be painfully aware that when it comes to tragic obsessions, mine is not football, celebrities, nor even one of The Trilogies of Sauron or Sith. No, my own personal albatross is that of the Cybertronian War between Autobot and Decepticon. I forget [ READ MORE ]

The Hangover – movie review

  • June 11th, 2009
  • Posted in Films

Featuring a cast of unknowns, The Hangover has seemingly come from nowhere to already become one of the highest grossing comedies ever in the US. Hyperbole would seem inevitable, and expectations fittingly raised. Charting the aftermath of a stag night in Vegas, The Hangover follows 3 groomsmen as they attempt to piece together the events [ READ MORE ]

In The Loop – movie review

  • April 23rd, 2009
  • Posted in Films

Unlikely as it may sound, I think there is a strong case for “In The Loop” to complete a double feature with “Crank: High Voltage.” Both films share a frenetic, relentless pace; a cast of largely familiar but un-nameable faces; and a colourful, inventive litany of verbal insults, the likes of which would make the [ READ MORE ]

Crank 2: High Voltage – movie review

  • April 23rd, 2009
  • Posted in Films

If you saw 2006′s Crank, you will most likely recall that the final scene of the film had Jason Statham’s “Chev Chelios” falling from a helicopter over Los Angeles and bouncing off the street below. Without missing a beat, that is the exact same point that the sequel starts from – Chelios has barely enough [ READ MORE ]

I Love You, Man – movie review.

  • April 16th, 2009
  • Posted in Films

    The saying: “I Love You, Man” is a decidedly hippy-ish Dude-erism – a phrase that inherently feels like it belongs in a bong-smoked corner of California, and one that as a movie’s title, I suspect will put off a large percentage of Blokey audiences from giving this film a chance. Which is a [ READ MORE ]

Shuttle – movie review

  • April 5th, 2009
  • Posted in Films

  Returning from a weekend jaunt, two young women, delayed by lost luggage, choose to get on the cheaper of two airport shuttle buses headed into town. Before long they notice that the driver has seemingly taken a wrong turn into the doldrums, and its from here that things start to get nasty for the [ READ MORE ]

Dark Floors: the Lordi motion picture – movie review

  • April 5th, 2009
  • Posted in Films

  You may recall that in 2006, a troupe of “heavy metal monsters” won the Eurovision Song Contest. Lordi was the band, and their GWAR-inspired power Rawk-and -Rubber Masks combo was a novel quirk that sealed them a place in the history books and Finland’s first ever Eurovision victory. It would seem that their lead [ READ MORE ]

Let The Right One In – movie review

  • April 4th, 2009
  • Posted in Films

Oskar is not a happy 12 year old. He is frequently bullied by the other boys at school and spends the evenings skulking around his broken home, harbouring fantasies of revenge whilst keeping a scrap book of any reported murders. It would be tempting to say he is not your normal pre-adolescent, but for all [ READ MORE ]

Fast & Furious – movie review

  • April 4th, 2009
  • Posted in Films

  You are no doubt aware of the established recipe for the F&F movies: muscle-bound thugs in muscle cars; an ear-shredding hip-hop soundtrack; improbably scantily clad beautiful babes hanging off the cars  / drivers / each other- usually whilst gyrating to said hip-hop; and of course numerous plot-driven Car-Fu, Petrol-Porn race & chase sequences. Fast [ READ MORE ]

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