What Masie Knew is an unusual movie, told almost exclusively from the perspective of a small child. In the early part of the movie, we hear arguments in the background, while the […]
Movie Review – What Masie Knew
Movie Review – Elysium
Elysium is a satellite city floating high above the earth below. It is a walled garden , a place for the rich to escape the poverty and crime on Earth, a perfect […]
Reality Bites – The Imposter – Documentary Film Review
The Imposter (2012) Dir: Bart Layton – Channel 4 22/8/13 The Imposter is the most intriguing tale of a Frenchman who convinces a Texan family that he is their 16 year old […]
Reality Bites – Missionary Positions – Documentary Film Review
Missionary Positions (2005) Dir: Bill Day. – Two Pastors Crusade against Porn This is a lo-fi documentary that tells the tale of two evangelical ministers, Craig Gross and Mike Foster, who decide […]
Movie Review – Alan Partridge – Alpha Papa
Alan Partridge – A Hero’s Journey ‘Aha!’ – ‘Alpha Papa’ has finally hit the big screen. Is it a case of ‘Back of the net!’ or ‘Eat my Goal!’, or has Alan […]
Movie Review – From up on Poppy Hill
This is the new work from Studio Ghibli, who previously brought us Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle. This is the story of a young woman growing up in Japan in 1962, […]
Movie Review – Red 2
A better than average Action movie, with Helen Mirren and John Malkovich battling it out as scene stealers! If you are Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Anthony Hopkins or any other serious actor, what […]
Movie Review – Frances Ha
Frances and Sophie have a very intense relationship, which Frances describes as like a lesbian couple that don’t have sex. They’re ‘the same person with different hair’ according to Frances, but when […]
Movie Review – Only God Forgives
Only God Forgives sees director Nicolas Winding Refn and actor Ryan Gosling pair up again for this Bangkok-based thriller. Gosling plays a drug-smuggler named Julian whose psycho brother is killed under unusual, […]
In the House – Movie Review
Germain (Ernst Umhauer) is a secondary school English teacher who has just started teaching class 4C. They are the usual bunch of students and what he describes as ‘the worst yet’. There […]
Arbitrage – Movie Review
Robert Miller (Richard Gere) has it all, a hugely success business man with a wife and perfect family, and beautiful artist girlfriend on the side, but pick at the surface and you’ll […]
Side Effects – Movie Review
This is Steven Sodebergh’s last ever movie. He’s giving up the day job and going off to become an artist. Seriously! I guess it’s some type of mid-life crisis, and hopefully his […]
Stoker – Movie Review
Stoker is the new movie by director Chan-wook Park, who previously made such movies as Oldboy (soon to have a Hollywood remake by Spike Lee!) and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, among others. […]
Movie Review – Flight
Robert Zemeckis’ latest film, Flight, explores the role and affect of alcoholism in the life of airline captain William ‘Whip’ Whitaker, played by Denzel Washington, and the winding course his life takes […]
Movie Review – Lincoln
Ok. So this film is a very loooooooonnnnnnng historical drama about Abraham Lincoln, the 16th (thanks Wikipedia) President of the United States, and his effort to legally overthrow slavery in the last […]
Movie Review – Django Unchained
Set in 1858 in America’s Deep South and Old West, Django Unchained tells the story of Django, a slave played by Jamie Foxx, who is separated from his wife by a cruel […]
Movie Review – The Sessions
The Sessions, directed by Ben Lewin, is a badly titled but charming little film based on the life of Mark O’Brien, a real life poet and journalist (1949 – 1999) – played by […]
Bite Sized Movie Reviews – Movie Roundup – The Life of Pi | Seven Psychopaths | Argo | Silver Linings Playbook
The Life of Pi – This is the adaptation of the movie that helped me find God! The movie is as good an adaptation as you could have made of a book […]
Movie Review – Safety Not Guaranteed
I’m always worried about a movie that bills itself as being ‘From the producers’ of another movie, as what does that really mean? I’m not sure what impact that really has on […]
Movie Reviews – Hors Satan
This is a difficult, painfully slow movie that will leave you with more questions than answers! Despite the glowing praise that is in the press at the moment for this movie, it […]
The Hunt – Movie Reviews
Those paying attention will already know what we thought of this one, as it nestled in at number three in the Best Movies of 2012 list! This movie seems to be perfectly […]
Best Movies of 2012
Our views on movies 10-06 are here. 10. Frankenweenie -. See our review here. 9. Beast of the Southern Wild -. Our review is here. 8. Moonrise Kingdom – A Wes Anderson […]
No More Workhorse 