Miss Potter dir. by Chris Noonan
I don’t ever remember reading any of Beatrix Potter’s books, but I’m still familiar with them, but for many other people I’m sure they are fond childhood memories. They are after...
8 January 2007
The Departed dir. by Martin Scorsese
It took me a while, but I finally managed to go see this film last night, and now I want to go again, because it really is fantastic. Bloody, violent, full...
1 December 2006
Casino Royale [based on book] by Ian Fleming dir. by Martin Campbell
based on the novel by Ian Fleming Before I saw this film I said that I would enjoy it, I just decided, spur of the moment type of thing that I...
1 December 2006
Pan’s Labyrinth dir. by Guillermo del Toro
El Laberinto del Fauno I really wanted to go see this film ever since I heard about it, and yer wan at the desk who tried to put me off by...
28 November 2006
Borat dir. by Larry Charles
Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan It is pretty impossible to review this film, because it is, in essence, just some fucked up shit happening across...
9 November 2006
Sixty Six dir. by Peter Weiland
It is the summer of 1966, and Bernie Reuben is looking forward to his Bar Mitzvah. All his life he has been overlooked and forgotten, by his family and by everyone...
4 November 2006
The Guardian dir. by Andrew Davis
Grizzled old veteran teaches impudent new pup how to be a rescue swimmer.And that is about it. But if that was all I said it’d make for a pretty short review,...
25 October 2006
The History Boys dir. by Nicholas Hytner
Set in 1983, in a Yorkshire grammer school, this film tells the story of a group of teenage boys trying to get into Oxford and Cambridge. Their headmaster who wants them...
13 October 2006
The Devil Wears Prada [based on book] by Lauren Weisberger dir. by David Frankel
I’d heard some fairly decent things about this film, and the trailer made it seem like good fun, but all in all I wasn’t impressed. Very average is perhaps the best...
10 October 2006
The Sentinel [based on book] by Gerald Petievich dir. by Clark Johnson
If I’m totally honest, I’ve nothing really to say about this film. It wasn’t good. But it wasn’t bad. I went for the Kiefer-ness Basic plot – there is a plot...
3 October 2006
The Queen dir. by Stephen Frears
This is an odd sort of film. Parts of it are very good, but other parts, well I just don’t think they work. The film is mostly set in the few...
29 September 2006