★★☆☆☆ Starring Noah Taylor (seen earlier this year in Richard Ayoade’s superb debut feature Submarine), Amanda Fuller and Marc Senter, Red White & Blue (2010) is an unconventional revenge-thriller from British director Simon Rumley, who brought us the rather disappointing The Living and the Dead (2006) and Strong Language (2000).Each Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Tory Nixey’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2011) – starring Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce – takes the traditional haunted house tale and injects it with dark, mythological venom. With some screenplay help from Guillermo del Toro, director of the incredible Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), the film revels in Continue Reading
★★★★☆ Seldom will you experience delight as in the sheer exuberance of Johnny English Reborn (2011). The sequel to Johnny English (2003), sees director Oliver Parker bring Rowan Atkinson’s bumbling spy out of the wilderness, with the help of a dazzlingly starry cast including Rosamund Pike, Dominic West and Gillian Continue Reading
★★★★☆ Woody Allen’s continued underlying flirtation with fantastical situations – previously witnessed with the screen-fleeing charm of The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) and hypnotism-induced antics of The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) – returns once again within Midnight in Paris (2011), the seasoned auteur’s forty-first directed feature in Continue Reading