It should be retitled; ‘Sidonie, Marie Antoinette’s just not that into you.’
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REVIEW: A Place For Me (2013)
It’s mostly a mediocre walk through the breakdown of a marriage; dad can’t move on, the daughter avoids intimacy and the son does drugs.
REVIEW: Evil Dead (2013)
It’s certainly violent, no question, but that’s about all it has going in favour.
REVIEW: Cinema Jenin: The Story of A Dream
Cinema Jenin is an enlightening documentary account of a tightrope evasion of political, cultural and economic obstacles to resurrect a decrepit Palestinian cinema.
REVIEW: Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Olympus Has Fallen is the stupid, dark fantasy of backward white trash America that needs another domestic threat to trigger war.
REVIEW: THERESE DESQUEYROUX (2012)
THERESE DESQUEYROUX is an early feminist suffrage text, except instead of the heroine suffering it’s the audience.
REVIEW: Iron Man 3 (2013)
The tie-ins to The Avengers and the Marvel Universe add a layer to the story’s context and hero, but Iron Man 3 remains a competent stand-alone adventure.
REVIEW: Mercy
Set in the beautiful northern Norwegian town of Hammerfest, covered by periodic complete darkness and light, Mercy is an engrossing slow-burn drama fraught with moral quandary (guilt is a more relevant virtue than the eponymous one, however) and domestic melodrama.
REVIEW: Drug War
Drug War is a film that truly respects every aspect of being a movie. It respects the actors, the audience, the setting, the score which beats to the action and intrigue and the plot as it unfolds brilliantly.
REVIEW: GI Joe: Retaliation (2013)
It’s simply dumb.
REVIEW: MAMA (2013)
Mama creeped into local cinemas with little more than a ghostly howl. It’s a shame. Not only is it one of the most affecting and terrifying horror films in recent years, it’s one that will stay with you like a vengeful spirit long after the credits have rolled.
REVIEW: Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
It’s sad that in Oz the Great and Powerful Disney have chosen to pillage from the 1939 film and L. Frank Baulm’s novels to create a prequel that plays out like fan fiction written for Playboy magazine that almost completely negates the material it’s based on.
REVIEW: Oz – The Great and Powerful (2013)
It is not only colourful and inventive, but features some well-drawn characters and powerful performances and provides enough laughs to entertain the whole family.
BLU RAY REVIEW: HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2D US EDITION
Animated feature Hotel Transylvania has both a fun and familiar feeling to it. I really enjoyed it, actually more than I thought I would, but then again I always loved Mad Monster Party…
REVIEW: In the House (2012)
In the House is screening as part of the 2013 Alliance Francaise French Film Festival In the House is the new film from esteemed French writer-director Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool, Potiche) adapted from ‘The Boy…
REVIEW: Lincoln (2012) 2nd Opinion
In Lincoln filmmaker Steven Spielberg takes a peephole approach to the life of one of the greatest American Presidents, Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day Lewis). It’s 1865 and with the American Civil War close to a…
REVIEW: ParaNorman (2012) – 2nd Opinion
ParaNorman is a transcendently powerful animation that perfectly mixes horror movie self-awareness and dark fairy-tale magic. Norman’s (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee) your average kid that sees dead people. He’s a loner that finds comfort…
REVIEW: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
However, the pitch of Stranger lies between the poles of the tense, intimate thrills of Match Point and the joyous and hilarious Vicky Christina Barcelona – making for a collection of desperate people failing at everything.
REVIEW: Killer Joe (2012)
Killer Joe is America at its worst but Friedkin and McConaghey at very close to their best.
REVIEW: The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journey (2012)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey had me with the dulcet melancholy of displaced Dwarves, yearning to be home.
