Movie Review Archive

  • [Review] Green Lantern (2011)

    Posted on June 20, 2011 | 2 Comments
    When a film with as much hype surrounding it as Green Lantern finally comes out, theatergoers will often go into their viewing with the mindset – without having seen anything more than a trailer – that they will like or dislike the film. Green Lantern...

    Full Story

  • Foreign Focus: Arahan

    Posted on June 16, 2011 | 2 Comments
    When you think of kung fu movies, you’ll probably think of something from Japan, or China. In doing so, you might overlook this little gem from Korea, released in 2004. Made by Ryoo Seung-wan, billed as Korea’s answer to Stephen Chow, Arahan is slick, accomplished,...

    Full Story

  • [Review] Green Lantern: Emerald Knights

    Posted on June 9, 2011 | 5 Comments
    In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night, This Movie Should Not Escape Your Sight. DC Animated knocks another one out of the ballpark and around the Universe. Twice.

    Full Story

  • [Review] X Men: First Class

    Posted on June 9, 2011 | 3 Comments
    If you were anything like me, you would have enjoyed the first X Men movie, loved the second, and wondered what the hell went wrong in number three. As a result, you might have been somewhat sceptical about another X Men film – and a...

    Full Story

  • Scream-A-Thon: Behind the Mask

    Posted on June 2, 2011 | 5 Comments
    Ever since Wes Craven decided to hack to pieces the slasher genre he helped (in part) to create with 1996′s Scream, various filmmakers have attempted to make ironic or “clever” films that expose the now trite cliches that string hapless slasher films together. Don’t say...

    Full Story

  • [Review] Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

    Posted on May 23, 2011 | 5 Comments
    Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was a fun, swashbuckling adventure movie that brought pirates firmly back into the public consciousness. Along came the atrocious Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, and it’s likely that you groaned at the announcement that they’d...

    Full Story

  • [Review] Insidious (2011)

    Posted on May 9, 2011 | 2 Comments
    I first saw the trailer for Insidious a couple of months ago, and I was torn over whether or not I wanted to see it. I like Patrick Wilson (previously Nite Owl in Watchmen and Raoul in Phantom of the Opera), but the association with...

    Full Story

  • Foreign Focus: Banlieue 13

    Posted on April 21, 2011 | 2 Comments
    When you see “A Film by Luc Besson” on a film poster, you can’t guarantee that he actually directed it – in fact, he has just seventeen director credits to his name, but forty credits for writing, and a massive 99 for producing. 2004′s District 13...

    Full Story

  • Foreign Focus: The Secret of Kells

    Posted on March 17, 2011 | 2 Comments
    I know what you’re thinking – why is a movie in English being featured as a foreign film? Well, mostly because its funding was French, Belgian and Irish, and it is a film’s financial backing that dictates its nationality, not its language, location or stars....

    Full Story

  • [Review] Somewhere (2010)

    Posted on December 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Somewhere, a Focus Features release, written and directed by Sofia Coppola, opens December 22 At its heart, Somewhere is a father-daughter film, with the usual spin of absentee father needing to learn to adjust to a suddenly present daughter. The usual beats are there, but...

    Full Story

« Older Entries