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 […]

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 […]

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 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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]