Category: Films

I missed Monsters in the cinema. And more fool me. It’s now out on DVD and Bluray, and it’s superb. What director, writer, and visual effects producer Gareth Edwards has managed is wonderful. This is low budget film-making without looking low budget. Andrew Kalder (Scoot McNairy) is a press photographer who’s asked to find out…

I very much enjoyed Moon, Duncan Jones debut film from 2009. Source Code is his follow up and it’s great that he’s stuck to his guns and made another film in a very similar vein. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Captain Coller Stevens, a member of the military. He suddenly finds himself in another man’s body on…

Wake Wood is one of the new breed of Hammer horror films, this one getting a direct to DVD release (as many horror films seem to do). The film that Wake Wood seemingly bases itself on is The Wicker Man. In Ireland somewhere, there’s a community of people who have some slightly unusual beliefs. But…

I’ll be honest and admit that I’m not too up on Russian cinema. Although to be fair, there’s not a great deal that makes it to the UK. What we do get tend to be the more commercial films like Nightwatch and Daywatch alongside the odd fantasy title like Wolfhound. Then there’s the odd breakthrough…

I had plenty of opportunity to book theatre tickets for Frankenstein, even going so far as to look at seats. But for whatever foolish reason, I decided against it. The production was a hit, and all the tickets sold out. So last night it was off to the Odeon Kensington – the only cinema carrying…

I saw Black Swan a while ago. But I was asked to sign a piece of paper that said a lot of things – mostly in dense legalese. As such, I wasn’t sure that I Was allowed to say anything too much about the film until now. As it happens I loved it, and wanted…

A new Danny Boyle film is always something to get excited about. 127 Hours closed the recent London Film Festival, and is Boyle’s first since he hit the serious bigtime with Slumdog Millionaire. It tells the true story of Aron Ralston (warning: spoilers), an adrenaline junkie who careers around the wilds of Utah without a…

And so we reach the third and final part of the Millennium trilogy. But before I get onto this film, a couple of things that irritated me in the cinema over the weekend. And neither were to do with the actual cinema (Vue in Islington). Nope, I’m talking about trailers. Because we’re approaching the end…

Robert De Niro can be an annoying actor. He’s made so many brilliant films in his career, and yet, so often these days, you feel he’s on autopilot. While I’m not sure that I need him to throwing his all into his films as he once did, I’d quite like him to try a little…

The Social Network seems to have caused something of a stir in the digital world – particularly amongst those who are more digital envangelists. They’ve seized on the fact that writer Aaron Sorkin (who’s script is based on Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires) is someone who doesn’t use social media like Facebook or Twitter, and…

I was lucky enough to attend a “public premiere” of Tamara Drewe on Monday followed by a Q&A with many of the cast and crew. I hadn’t quite realised that the big Leicester Square premiere was happening at the same time, but it did explain why Tamsin Greig was so dressed up when she came…