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The Way (Cinema Review)
 With Charlie Sheen’s exploits continuing to raise onlookers’ eyebrows, his father Martin is left to rely on his less theatrical son Emilio Estevez to partner him on this picturesque journey...
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Diamond Dog Capers (DVD Review)
 If there is one sure way to make a nice family movie, cast a dog as the lead star. A cute, furry one who has the right mix of adorable appeal and the ability to act on command (think Lassie...
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Monsters (DVD Review)
 Nominated for a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut, writer-director (and cameraman) Gareth Edwards would have been a far more deserving winner than Chris Morris for Four Lions...
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Somewhere (DVD Review)
 Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is an actor living in his own bubble, unable to truly connect with anyone. He lives a privileged lifestyle with no limitations. The actor, and well known...
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Hop (Cinema Review)
 I didn't arrive hostile to Hop. Honestly. I'm no Russell Brand-hater, and our boy does a personable job (or should that be rabbitable job?) voicing cute cartoon E.B., reluctant heir...
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Mad Men Season 4 (DVD Review)
 Multi Golden Globe and Emmy award winning cable series Mad Men sees its fourth season released on DVD this month as the cult favorite continues to rake in more critical acclaim and...
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Finale (DVD Review)
 Basing a horror film on a true story is not the easiest task in the world of film-making, but writer and director John Michael Elfers gives it a good go in ‘Finale’, a film based on his experiences...
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Wake Wood (Cinema Review)
 Most people are usually sceptical of British films, thinking them cheaply made with bad acting. While Hammer-produced Wake Wood is not the greatest piece de resistance, it certainly has...
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Open House (DVD Review)
 Open House is the directorial debut of Andrew Paquin - brother of Anna who is given a minor role alongside her husband Stephen Moyer – who also penned this unconvincing home invasion...
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Age Of The Dragons (Cinema Review)
 An ambitious attempt to re-tell literary classic Moby Dick, Age of the Dragons transplants the story to a fantasy world inhabited by huge dragons, primitive machinery and Vinnie Jones...
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Operation: Valkyrie (DVD Review)
 You'd be forgiven in confusing this film with the recent Hollywood star laden version released in 2008 that saw Tom Cruise as the heroic Claus Von Stauffenberg yet Purists...
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Not Going Out Series Four (DVD Review)
 Those that loathe reality TV will be rubbing their hands together with glee at the thought of the X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent having to attract huge audience numbers without its leading ...
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Deadmeat (DVD Review)
 Kwabena Manso’s (AKA Q) directorial debut is a multi-layered film based on his novel of the same name. Deadmeat explores a plethora of issues bounding between infidelity to gang ...
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Easy A (DVD Review)
 There have been scores of high school movies, but, populated by caricatures and riddled with clichés and predictability, very few have achieved anything like a pass grade. However...
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Massacre at My Lai Four (DVD Review)
 Making a Vietnam war film original, engaging, and creditable is a pretty tall order for anybody these days, so it probably wasn't the wisest choice for director Paolo Bertola to tackle that...
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Crying With Laughter (DVD Review)
 Kicking off with some of bluest language you're likely to hear outside of a working men's club somewhere in the back streets of Glasgow, this movie pulls no punches and sets out its stall...
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French Film (DVD Review)
 What is love? A question which is rarely addressed in today’s rom-coms. We get the usual fluffy fantasies that gives you that warm fuzzy feeling inside. French Film is no fluffy fantasy...
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Dog Pound (DVD Review)
 Dog Pound is an uncompromising prison drama set in a Youth Correctional Centre in Montana, USA and follows the story of juveniles Butch, Davis and Angel who are separately packed...
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Terror Trap (DVD Review)
 If you're looking to watch a movie as unoriginal as it's title suggests than look no further. There is possibly no other activity better suited to wasting 90 minutes of your day than to endure...
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Devil (DVD Review)
 Whenever a film is badged with the M. Night Shyamalan insignia it is hard not to begin viewing without some obvious preconceptions. One expects some mystical, spiritual or...
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The Fighter (Cinema Review)
 Opening in Lowell, Massachusetts 1993, Christian Bale’s Dicky is being interviewed by a documentary crew, and describes himself as a “squirrelly” fighter. Straight away I’m ...
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Season Of The Witch (Cinema Review)
 Who doesn’t love a medieval thriller? The Name of the Rose is an extraordinary novel turned into an excellent film. However, not many of these are made. Within a year though we have two...
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Tron: Legacy (Cinema Review)
 In 1982 a ground-breaking special effects movie was released. It was called Tron. Jeff Bridges was Kevin Flynn, a gifted technology whizz-kid dematerialised via...
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The Legend Of The Fist: The Return Of Chen Zhen (Cinema Review)
 Let’s get this out in the open straight away, I could not wait for this film. Chen Zhen has been portrayed before in some of the best martial arts movies ever...
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The Vintner’s Luck (DVD Review)
 The first film that New Zealand director Niki Caro and Maori actress Keisha Castle-Hughes made together was Whale Rider which earned the latter an Oscar nomination. This, their second...
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The Brothers Bloom (DVD Review)
 If you can get through the excruciatingly irritating prologue with the whimsical narrator expounding the backstory in whimsical rhyme like a bad case of Pushing Daises, then...
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The Illusionist (Cinema Review)
 It is the 1950s and Rock and Roll is taking the world by storm. Our protagonist is Tatischeff, a conjurer who specializes in the quaint art of rabbits-out-of-a-hat-magic and apparently...
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The Secret In Their Eyes (Cinema Review)
 It’s not often that this can be said... we have been spoilt. Police fiction on television has been of the highest calibre imaginable. The Wire, Dexter and The Shield are Greek tragedy...
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Invictus (DVD Review)
 Nelson Mandela’s release from Robben Prison after nearly 26 years sets the scene for this biopic directed by Clint Eastwood. Based on the John Carlin book Playing the Enemy...
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The Office: An American Workplace (DVD Review)
 Critics were poised and ready to condemn those cheeky Americans for poaching the very British BBC hit The Office. To everyone’s surprise, this US...
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True Blood Season 2 (DVD Review)
 Disappointing HBO series. HBO have set the bar pretty high with the likes of The Sopranos and The Wire in recent years and all though much hyped the True Blood series fails to impress...
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S.N.U.B (DVD Review)
 The actor’s elephant graveyard, where “Doctors” extras come to die. Badly… This is an offensively poor attempt at a post-apocalyptic, mutant zombie horror, where some random...
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30 Rock Season 3 (DVD Review)
 With its fourth season currently airing and a fifth season renewed, 30 Rock shows no sign of slowing down. Awards success has also greeted its doorstep, receiving the Emmy...
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Glorious 39 (DVD Review)
 Stephen Poliakoff’s first cinema release in a decade proves to be a bit of a lacklustre affair. The ingredients are there for a great film but things don’t quite fit together. Aspiring actress Anne...
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Dear John Cinema Review (DVD Review)
 Dear John is an enjoyable romantic drama which has an old fashioned wartime romance feel about it. The last adaptation from a Nicolas Sparks novel, The Notebook, was a commercial...
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No One knows about Persian Cats (DVD Review)
 Rather like the documentary Afghan Star from last year, this riveting piece of drama provides a great service to western audiences: it shows us the...
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The Day Of The Triffids (DVD Review)
 The Beeb’s occasional romps into dramatic recreations of classic novels, plays and musical extravaganzas seldom turn up real duffers. After all, for all of the Corporation’s understated...
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On the Blind Side (Cinema Review)
 To say I was moved by On the Blind Side would be an understatement. The Brigadier felt the same. We could hardly move from our seats at the end of the film. On the Blind Side stars...
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Dead Man Running (DVD Review)
 Another gun-toting cockney-gangster film you say? Well yes, but it’s a goodun. Even mobster loan sharks are feeling the pinch of the credit-crunch in this gritty yet comedic day in the life film...
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Ninja (DVD Review)
 Plot Spoiler: Its rubbish. ‘nuff said. This film is diabolical in every aspect; I had to refrain from turning it off and flushing it down the toilet after less than five minutes viewing, and only...
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The story of Sucker Punch is one of the most disjointed messes ever presented on celluloid. It follows 'Baby Doll' (Emily Browning) after she is incarcerated in a mental...
For a show that was circulated to actors as the “Edie Falco Untitled Project”, Nurse Jackie is certainly all about her. Previously the eternally frustrated Carmela Soprano, Falco as Jackie...
It is no surprise that Zack Snyder’s first original offering has the Zack Snyder stamp gleaming from almost every scene. There’s no denying his visual genius, and Sucker Punch...
At one point during a family dinner, sitting at the table with mom, dad, grandparents and twin sister, out of nowhere young Henry Focker asks whether girls poop from their vaginas...
If you happen to need good instruction in the perils of fame and the celebrity life, go and see this not very good film. Gywneth Paltrow plays Kelly Canter, a superstar Country singer...
Credited with inspiring the likes of Football Factory and Green Street, Arrivederci Millwall is the original football hooligan film. Although the film’s narrative follows protagonist Billy...
Berlin, the city where David Bowie became a true artist, Sally Bowles broke our hearts in Cabaret, and now Bedways, where three young aesthetes go on a journey of sexual...
Primevil is a fairly typical straight to DVD horror movie, featuring a yacht-load of beautiful rich people shipwrecked on an island inhabited by a tribe of violent ape-like creatures who ...
The whole world has gone Vampire crazy since the new generation of Vampire novels and films that have swept the nation. 'Let Me In' is no different instead of it being an unlikely love...
Emily Watson has a wonderfully calm demeanour, and a hugely expressive face, which in one concentrated look registers intelligence, wisdom, experience and sympathy. She reminds...
Born from the Kidulthood and Adulthood school of urban filmmaking, Anuvahood is one of the first comedies to come from this newly cult genre. Sharing many of the same actors...
There are some powerful action sequences in this fun, if slightly daft juvenile sci-fi thriller about a teenager’s struggle with that age old dilemma of wanting to live an ordinary existence while...
Based on the title alone, if you didn’t know what the film was about you could be forgiven for anticipating a gruesome Nazi style Zombie horror. Instead Dawn of Evil – Rise of the...
The Saw series is the epitome of the old adage that you can have too much of a good thing. Had it been left as a trilogy, it would have been remembered as a legendary horror franchise...
The Kids Are All Right is an American comedy-drama written by Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg and directed by Cholodenko. The film was awarded 2 Golden Globe...
Featuring plenty of gore and sci-fi action, Anchor bay's release of Dead Space: Aftermath takes the franchise to a whole new level with complex plots and cutting-edge CGI technology...
Don’t let the title put you off, Charlie St Cloud is a watchable drama if you are of a certain age and mind set. With Zac Efron (High School Musical) in the lead role you don’t have to be...
Emma is a fifteen-year-old girl struggling with the everyday dynamics of a teenager dealing with life in a dysfunctional 2.2 urban family until one-day normality goes on vacation...
Disenchanted with the claustrophobic city life and complicated by a few 'incidents' at work, beautiful career girl Hae-won returns to her childhood island home of Mundo only to...
Based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell, Winter’s Bone is a tense and bleak insight into the plight of a broken family and one girl’s dogged determination to protect their future.
Will Canon’s insight into the dark world of fraternities was rewarded with the Audience Award at the 2010 SxSW Festival. The subject of ‘hazing’ and such-like is something...
This is a stunning and disturbing piece of work which packs a huge emotional punch. Whenever a favourite novel is turned into cinema there are worries that the film-makers might get things...
The latest adaptation of Jonathon Swift’s Eighteenth Century novel sees Jack Black as friendly but unobtrusive mail man Lemuel Gulliver working in the mail room of a New York newspaper ...
In Somewhere, director Sofia Coppola paints a picture of a lost young movie star whose life is an abject amalgamation of drink, drugs and women. Stephen Dorff plays Johnny Marco...
I’ve seen all of director Tony Scott’s films. Is that a good thing? On some level I am sure it is! I’ve grown up with his stuff. But let’s face it, his career is widely inconsistent. His back ...
A British remake of the 1993 French comedy-thriller, there’s some sluggish moments but generally speaking Jonathan Lynn’s not done a bad job of Anglicising the original...
Nicolas Cage has an annoyingly inconsistent acting history. We’ve seen the good (Raising Arizona, Con Air) and the bad (National Treasure, The Wicker Man). Sometimes prejudging his...
Predictable and uninspiring revenge mobster flick starring Jean Reno. The movies opens with a sentimental Kodak moment which are dotted throughout the movie till the credits roll.
Juliette Binoche stars in a rambling drama sit in Tuscany. The title of the film is the title of the book that English writer William Shimell (James Miller) has written about the perceived...
Atom Egoyan’s remake of French thriller Nathalie stars Julianne Moore as a suspicious wife who goes to extreme lengths to test her husband’s (Liam Neeson) fidelity...
Below average yarn directed by Michael Winterbottom. Much has been made about the violence portrayed in Michael Winterbottom’s latest offering but ultimately it’s just not a great...
A little cheesy at times but overall mildly enjoyable.Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe who worked together on the excellent Gladiator try to bring some of the same qualities to the screen in...
Samantha Morton’s directorial debut deals with a small girl who is taken into care. Morton herself was brought up in foster care and you have to think that the film must have incorporated...
Clive Barker’s Dread finds three college students working on a film project which gets out of control.Loner Stephen (Jackson Rathbone), extroverted Quaid (Shaun Evans) and pretty...
The title could make a person think this is an allegory for overcoming heroin addiction, but it’s actually the latest animation extravaganza to hit the multiplexes. You’d perhaps...
There’s something deep in the British psyche that thinks - or hopes - that laughter drives out evil. The same impulse that printed Hitler’s picture inside wartime chamber-pots wonders...
There is a wonderful tradition, not just in Hollywood but also in major movie-making centres in other parts of the world, for producing costume dramas that can stand the test of time. The two hours...
Shockingly bad zombie nonsense. Donning the old back to the future cardboard 3D specs this was a typical case of expecting 3 dimensional images and ending up with a headache...
This film is absolutely brilliant. If you hate hoodies and do-naff wigga chavs, then you’ll love Harry Brown. Michael Caine plays Harry, an elderly, law-abiding citizen who lives in fear on a run...
Jeremy Piven takes a turd and makes it shine; The Goods is another reasonably comedic offering from Will Ferrell and Judd Apatow that follows a team of mercenary used car salesmen...