Iron Man 2
I despair at the jejune marketplace that demands such ridiculously immature filmmaking as Iron Man 2. Robert Downey Jr is hard at work destroying all goodwill engendered by the fine
Nightwatching
Martin Freeman swaps his best known role in The Office for a different discipline, playing famous painter Rembrandt. Telling the story of the creation of his most famous painting “The
Revanche
Ex-Con Alex wants to start a new life in South America. But in the aftermath of a bank robbery, Alex’s girlfriend is shot by a passing police man. Fleeing to
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Small but sharply formed thriller, The Disappearance of Alice Creed tells of two criminals Vic and Danny who prepare a van, flat and kidnap the estranged daughter of a millionaire
The Last Song
Hands up who thinks one Nicholas Sparks adaptation a year is enough? Yup, me too but the Hollywood powers that be have decided that this is one cow worth beating
Summer Blockbusters: 2010’s Biggest, Loudest Box Office Ticklers Previewed
It’s that time of year again. As those scared of sunlight, untrusting of picnics and, well, Twilight fans look for refuge from the summer outdoors Hollywood offers a slew of
The Joneses
A perfect family move to a perfect neighbourhood bringing with them all the cool gadgets and fancy furniture your heart could possibly desire. They are friendly, warm and beautiful and
Life During Wartime
Todd Solondz is perhaps best known for his 1998 feature: Happiness, to which Life During Wartime is a temporalised sequel. Dealing mainly with the theme of forgiveness, Solondz tones down
It’s a Wonderful Afterlife
Bollywood blasts back to our screens with the latest helping from Gurinder Chadha. Desperate to marry her daughter off, Indian mother Mrs Sethi (Shabana Azmi) resorts to extreme behaviour in
The Ghost
Back before Roman Polanski made himself Public Enemy Number 1 he used to make movies. Really really good ones (Chinatown anyone?) The Ghost tells the story of Ewan MacGregor’s author
Repo Men
With a plotline that sounds dangerously similar to rock opera movie Repo: The Genetic Opera, Repo Men sees Jude Law playing repo man Remy whose job is to repossess people’s
The Daisy Chain
Following on the ever popular horror movie trick of creepy children, Irish horror movie The Daisy Chain stars Samantha Morton as Martha who, along with husband Tomas move to a
Big Dish Go
Like footballers, the shelf life for promoters is notoriously short. One bad decision or dud gig can shut down shop immediately. That being said, the lads at Big Dish Go
Lone Wolf – Keep Your Eyes On The Road
You know what Peter Gabriel needed? A trucker ‘tache. Lone Wolf creates an admirable Tunng-like folk racket in ‘Keep Your Eyes on the Road’, and sashaying taster of his ‘Devil
Shelter
As if her freckled features hadn’t graced our screens enough of late, Julianne Moore is back. This time we get more of the Moore in a stony-faced ‘psychological’ thriller, emphasis
Whip It!
OK, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Whip It! is a big girlfest right? Well, it is. But I’m one hundred percent sure that if I were a man I’d