Like Crazy(2012)
"“It’s amiable and endearing, whilst being poignant and precise…”"
Sometimes it really is the simplest of ideas that work best. Like Crazy focuses on the on/off relationship between a couple, battling to stay together despite the Atlantic Ocean keeping them apart. In what is quite an undemanding storyline, produces a delightful and terribly rational take on mode...
Hereafter(2011)
"over-sentimental, manipulative, nonsensical tripe"
Hereafter is over-sentimental, manipulative, nonsensical tripe; a film which not only manages to be punishingly boring but also insulting to your intelligence as well.
It begins with Marie (Cecile De France), a French journalist who has a near-death experience when she’s almost kill...
Paul(2011)
"He’s done zombies, now Simon Pegg adds aliens to his list"
In our flat, the name Simon Pegg triggers almost instantaneous debate. Most of the house absolutely love him, citing ‘Sean of the Dead’, and ‘Hot Fuzz’ as two of the funniest films of the last 10 years. I however, am not quite as convinced. Yes those film...
The Mechanic(2011)
"The film doesn’t try to be anything it isn’t – it’s fun, unsentimental and unpretentious"
Jason Statham has surely become the most typecast actor in Hollywood (although I’m sure he doesn’t mind - it does provide him with work after all). More often that not, he plays the silent, brooding characters, who despite always seeming like they are lost in deep thought, are violent...
Tangled(2011)
"I defy the cynics not to be wiping at least one little tear away from under their 3D glasses..."
Disney Studio's have a long tradition of bringing the classic fairytale to life and becoming the defining version of that story. Who can think of anyone but Ariel when thinking of the The Little Mermaid, or Belle when we think of Beauty and The Beast. So the question is, will Tangled become the d...
The Ward(2011)
"This film is like the Dawson's Creek version of a mental ward, where everyone is impossibly pretty and overacted."
The Ward, sees Director John Carpenter's return to his horror roots and unfortunately half way into the film, I knew this middle of the road, cheesy psych ward 'horror' was not going to live up to my expectations.
The film starts of in a confusing manor as Kristen (Amber Heard) is s...