Theatrical Releases: ‘When You’re Strange: A Film About the Doors’
“If you remember the 60s then you weren’t there”. This common illustration of the 1960s is not only verified in the documentary When You’re Strange: […]
Special Feature: Future Cinema’s Dennis Hopper retrospective
Future Cinema, creators of the acclaimed Secret Cinema, presents a very special screening tribute to the late, great Dennis Hopper with a unique screening of […]
Theatrical Releases: ‘Toy Story 3’
Fifteen years after the release of the groundbreaking Toy Story (1995) and eleven years after the release of the arguably superior Toy Story 2 (1999), […]
Film Review: ‘Predators’
★★★☆☆ It’s no surprise producer Robert Rodriguez and director Nimród Antal stressed that they wanted this film to be seen as a sequel only to […]
Theatrical Releases: ‘The Collector’
As a horror fan, it is tempting to defend what has come to be called ‘Torture Porn’ if only because the sub-genre has dominated the […]
Special Feature: Wong Kar Wai – a reappraisal
Wong Kar Wai is no stranger to controversy – from the dark shades he always seems to have on to the lack of scripts in […]
DVD Review: ‘The Perfect Sleep’
★★☆☆☆ “Sorry if it seems kind of cliché, but the French dig this kind of visual…and I dig the French”. These are the telling, if […]
Blu-ray Review: ‘Donnie Darko’
★★★★★ When first released, Donnie Darko (2001) screened in a handful of cinemas across America for little over a month, crippled by a low budget, […]
Film Review: ‘Shrek Forever After: The Final Chapter’
★★☆☆☆ After the disappointment of Shrek the Third in 2007, there wasn’t much expectation for a fourth Shrek movie. Many felt that the franchise was […]
Film Review: ‘Inception’
★★★★☆ When we’re dreaming, time moves differently. We don’t notice while we’re sleeping, but it does; a second of real time can feel like minutes, […]
DVD Releases: ‘Youth in Revolt’
Based on the novel by C.D. Payne, Arteta’s direction sets the premise for an intelligent and witty take on the plight of the teen, and […]
DVD Review: ‘The Dinner Party’
★☆☆☆☆ TV soap operas have often proved to be the perfect platform for young acting talent to cut their thespian teeth. Australia’s hugely successful soap […]
Special Feature: The Japanese gender issue
The celebration of the female director has become paramount to film festivals globally. This years, The Japan Foundation dedicated their annual touring film program to the […]
DVD Review: ‘Resurrecting the Street Walker’
★★☆☆☆ Much like his debut film’s aspiring intern protagonist James Parker (James Powell), British director Ozgur Uyanik struggles to reign in his ambitious, yet ultimately […]
DVD Releases: ‘The Princess and the Frog’
Starring the voice talents of Anika Noni Rose, best known for her role as Lorrell Robinson in 2006’s Dreamgirls and Bruno Campos, a regular on […]
DVD Releases: ‘The Wolfman’
After the death of his brother, Shakespearean actor Lawrence Talbot (Benicio del Toro) returns to the family stately home in Blackmoor. His father John (Anthony […]
Theatrical Releases: ‘The Brothers Bloom’
In his first feature movie Brick (2005), writer-director Rian Johnson created a self-contained world of noir double-crosses, femme-fatales and hardboiled dialogue, and set it all […]
Theatrical Releases: ‘Sex and the City 2’
There is no doubt that the Sex and the City franchise is one of the most successful in television history. The series is popular with […]