Its been two years since this came out in the cinema, and I’m finally getting to see it. Given that I’ve liked most of what Shyamalan has done, and given that Joaquin Phoenix is a star I’m a little surprised that it has taken me this long. I really enjoyed The Sixth Sense, and loved Unbreakable, but I did hate Signs.
This traces a few days in the life of the teenage gang leader Tsotsi. When we first meet him, he and his friends are playing dice, deciding what to do that...
Sometimes you go to the cinema hoping for a good film, but thinking that what you are about to watch isn’t going to be fun, it may not even qualify as...
It is the 1950’s, and McCarthyism is rife in America as the hunt for reds under bed trundles on. In CBS Ed McMurrow begins to highlight McCarthy’s scare tactics and methods...
Jarhead is the story of one young Marine as he goes through training and then into Iraq during the early 90’s. It isn’t an overtly political film, although Kruger has a...
In short, this is a film that is pretty to look at, but boring to watch. Okay, I’ll say a bit more about it: Memoirs of a Geisha has been somewhat...
In a way it is a pity that this film has received so much press coverage, it’d be interesting to watch it not knowing what was going to happen between Ennis...
Before the opening credits rolled on this film I had been thinking that I really wasn’t in th emood for seeing a foreign film that I’d have to read. And then...
Spoilers cause you know this has been out for how many years now? Finally made my way through the final few episodes of Buffy, season 2 this weekend. Have to say...
ISBN: 0006722253 I decided to reread this after hearing that the film has been recut and rereleased. The Outsiders is one of those classic YA books. Although I never read it...
Just so you know, this film is called Hooligans, Green Street Hooligans and Green Street depending on where you are. Football has never really had a good film made about it,...
This is a strange film. I suppose I should have expected that from the director though shouldn’t I? We open with two criminal-types, drifting across America, leaving a trail of casual...
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