★★☆☆☆ Japanese director Hideyuki Hirayama offers audiences Battle of the Pacific (2011) – a flawed, but at times moving, account of a group of Japanese soldiers in Saipan at the end of WWII who continue to fight on even after […]
★★★★☆ The incomparable Larry David returns this week in Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 8, which sees the social leper flee LA to his home town of New York for three months in order to avoid a charity gig appearance. With […]
★★★★☆ “I have this vision of doing it with puppets”, says Jason Segel’s character of his planned ‘Dracula rock opera’ in 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall, “I think they’re due a comeback”. Prophetic words indeed, as following that movie’s success, Segel […]
★★★★☆ Based on the hit stage show of the same name, Rock of Ages (2012) is a blast from the past in the best sense of the word. After the wholesome plastic pop of the High School Musical franchise and […]
