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 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
Children of Men [based on book] by P.D. James dir. by Alfonso Cuarón
Based on the novel by P.D. James In a previous review at some stage I mentioned that I’m quite a fan of Clive Owen’s. Not in ‘omg he’s lovely’sort of a...
25 September 2006
Little Miss Sunshine dir. by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Families are a source of much amusement and not a little tragedy. Especially when your father is a motivational speaker, whose “9 steps to winning” doesn’t seem to be working, your...
10 September 2006
Harsh Times dir. by David Ayer
I’m not all that sure how to describe this film. If you’ve seen Training Day you may have a general idea of the tone; gritty and violent. But this isn’t about...
23 August 2006
The Break-Up dir. by Peyton Reed
You all know I’m a fan of Vince Vaughn’s, so I was quite looking forward to this. Plus the trailers looked entertaining, though we do know that you can never trust...
12 August 2006
That’s not even a plot dir. by Jack Bender
Last episode of season 2 of Lost was on last night. And can I just say that this has to be the most pointless telly watching I have ever done. I...
25 July 2006
The Cave of the Yellow Dog dir. by Byambasuren Davaa
There is very little plot to this film. It all revolves around Nansal, a six year old girl, who while out looking for dung to fuel a fire comes across a...
23 July 2006
United 93 dir. by Peter Greengrass
This is a film that is pretty impossible to review as just a film. We’ve all seen the news footage of those planes crashing into the World Trade Centre, we all...
22 June 2006
The Magician dir. by Scott Ryan
This is the story of Ray, who for the right money can make anyone disappear. Although it isn’t magic he uses, not unless you count a count as a wand. He...
12 May 2006
Junebug dir. by Phil Morrison
This is a film that perfectly fits that horrible description; a quirkie independent film. But never annoyingly quirky, so don’t worry about that. For the majority of the time the film...
15 April 2006
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