Category: Films

I think I’ve mentioned it here before. But I really don’t like musicals all that much. I’m not sure why – maybe I’m lacking a gene or something. But, with the notable exception of West Side Story, the stuff that fills up half the West End leaves me cold. I went to see Les Mis…

“Good night and good luck” was the sign-off given by Edward R Murrow, and it’s the title of an astonishingly good film directed by, and co-starring George Clooney which examines Murrow’s battle against the tyrant Joseph McCarthy. Clooney plays Murrow’s produced Fred Friendly, but the real star of the show is undoubtedly David Strathairn as…

As a long time fan of Wallace and Gromit, it was only a matter of time before I had to drag myself along to the cinema to see this. One of the key reasons for not going immediately was the prospect of being in a cinema packed to the rafters with kids. I’ve got no…

The Farrelly brothers certainly have managed to offend various people over the years with their brand of humour. This is taken to the extreme in the forthcoming The Ringer, which they’ve executive produced. Essentially they’ve gone out on a limb to try to make it as hard possible to like a film – at least…

Now here’s a curiosity. If you happen to see a little of the trailer, or happen upon the poster for Lord Of War on the tube you might be forgiven for thinking that this is some kind of Con Air 2 – Nic Cage in a big action movie. But that’s not remotely the case.…

David Cronenberg films are always worth watching – although I admit I didn’t see his last film, Spiders. But eXtistenZ was a very interesting film. A History Of Violence is one of those films that you probably don’t want to know a great deal about before you see it. Viggo Mortensen is Tom, a nice…

Well, it’s the film that everyone’s talking about at the moment – well the Browncoats are anyway. I only recently saw Firefly having read a few decent things about it on the net (I certainly never caught any of its airings on the Sci Fi channel). Then it appeared quite reasonably in the current HMV…

First some honesty – I’ve come very very late to the whole Family Guy thing. I’d been told how good it is, and like The Simpsons, I knew it to be well written. But also like The Simpsons, I’d not really cared that much. I don’t what it is in my bones that makes me…

Michael Bay’s latest film, The Island, has seemingly had disappointing box office returns in America, and while I couldn’t call it a great film by an means, it does do exactly what it says on the tin. That’s to say, lots of explosions, big chases, pounding soundtrack, beautiful stars, camera filters aplenty, and a powerful…

Return to Sender is a very Scandinavean film, that seems to have been inadvertantly set in the USA. Given that the film’s about death row prisoners, the US setting (Oklahoma) is correct, but everything else about the film shouts “Nordic”. That feeling is obviously aided and abeted by the fact that it’s directed by Danish…

It’s taken a while for John Sayles latest film to reach these shores. In the US it was released in the run up to last year’s presidential election, since it addresses State politics. Included in the cast are some of Sayles favourite actors. Chris Cooper plays would-be Governor Dickie Pilager, who should in no way…

I’ve been meaning to write something about this since I saw it a couple of weeks ago. Critical opinion has been very mixed, and a couple of people of work seem to have found the whole thing enormously disappointing. But first things first, Spielberg’s transported H G Wells’ classic from nineteenth century Surrey to 21st…

Stealth is the new film from Rob Cohen, the guy who brought us The Fast & the Furious and xXx, and let me say from the outset, if you know any thirteen year old boys, they’ve going to think that this is the best film ever made. It’s set among an elite Navy fighter plane…