Dog Pound(2010)
"it’s almost a hideous, nightmarish version of a high school drama"
DOG POUND starts as it means to go on, with three messy scenes of drugs, sex and violence in quick succession, introducing us to the film’s teenage trio as they commit the crimes that put them inside Montana’s ‘Enola Vale Correctional Facility’. Let me warn you; within the...
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World(2010)
"scene after scene of tantalising fight sequences hit you right between the eyes, where all bets are off, anything can happen and everything does."
In a world where being in your twenties is still like being in your teens, and films about being in your twenties are no longer about what job you have or your five year plan, but ultimately about fun and humour and most importantly love, what better hero of this modern day phenomenon do we have ...
127 Hours(2011)
"In a film that is centred around one man trapped in a cave in the dessert under a bolder, Danny Boyle manages to make water dripping out of a straw a white knuckle ride. "
127 Hours is as painful to watch as it is downright thrilling. Every minute of Danny Boyle's cinematography is an adventure in its own right, in a world where the whole film is centred around one man trapped in a cave in the dessert under a bolder, Danny Boyle manages to make wat...
The Expendables(2010)
"Proof, if any were needed, that bigger doesn’t mean better"
I have never, ever been to a screening, and seen a reaction quite like the one for The Expendables. Literally every time one of the big names appeared on the screen in the opening credits (and there are a LOT of big names in this film), the entire cinema cheered (apart from me of course I f...
Melancholia(2011)
"it’s a poetic, passionate film"
It is the movie Lars Von Trier was presenting at Cannes when he accidentally got banned for a not-so-subtle remark about Nazism; it is also the film that, in the same occasion, won Kirsten Dunst the coveted award for Best Actress. ?Melancholia was definitely talked about even prior to its release...
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore(2010)
"Kids will love this. Spying and flying dogs, cats and birds, working together to take down one seriously disturbed kitty"
Kids will love this. Spying and flying dogs, cats and birds, working together to take down one seriously disturbed kitty -- what's not for them to love? Mum's and Dad's - if it weren't a darkened cinema, I would say bring a book. This is not a film you are going to see with high hopes of being e...