★★☆☆☆ 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 their emperor has surrendered. Hiayama’s film is better known amongst Continue Reading
★★★★☆ 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 cameos from Michael McKean, Ricky Gervais, Bill Buckner, Michael J. Continue Reading
★★★★☆ “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 and director Nicholas Stoller pitched a new Muppet movie to Continue Reading
★★★★☆ 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 repetitive tedium of TV’s Glee, Hairspray (2007) director Adam Shankman’s Continue Reading