L. Frank Baum wrote, ‘There’s no place like home.’ Thomas Wolfe coined the expression, ‘You can’t go home again.’ Oddly enough both expressions apply to the final film in Edgar Wright’s Three Flavours: Cornetto Trilogy – possibly the best of the summer blockbusters and a pure delight to encounter as summer tentpoles get more and […]
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The World’s End a little disjointed but Works. Michelle’s Review
Ok, who doesn’t love the film team of Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright and Nick Frost? Their past team ups have lead to sublime comedy classics like Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Their latest The World’s End, while not as funny as their previous efforts, this one is probably their most confident and well-conceived […]
And The Most Disappointing Tentpole This Summer Is… Mortal Instruments: City of Bones!
Somehow, Mortal Instruments: City of Bones manages to move like a bat out of hell and be clunky at the same time.
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones stumbles out of the Gate, but it works. Michelle’s Review!
This is why I freely admit that, sometimes, I’m not a good critic. For me a movie only needs to entertain me, whether its intentional or for all the wrong reasons. There is something about the weirdness in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones that had me in stitches (for the wrong reasons) during most […]
In a World… Lake Bell Crashes Through The Glass Ceiling!
Lake Bell wrote, directed, produced and stars in In A World… – a very personal but completely accessible movie about a woman who faces the glass ceiling of the movie trailer narration biz while surviving as a vocal coach to actors like Eva Longoria. What makes her struggle more intense and funnier, is the fact […]
Jobs a Brilliant Biography marred by Fanboy Marketing
When I walked out of the critic screening for Jobs (no it is not a movie about getting a job in this difficult economy) I was thinking that as a purely biographical film exercise and movie, this is probably one of the best ones of the year. Ashton Kutcher gives the performance of his career; […]
Disney’s Planes Takes Off But Doesn’t Quite Soar!
Put aside, for the moment that Disney’s Planes is pretty close to a beat-for-beat remake of Cars – only with planes. Set aside the ads that say ‘set in the world above Cars’ that want you to think this is a Pixar movie. Then, finally, forget that the movie was originally set to be a […]
Wolverine Review!
Graphic novels used to be the exclusive property of the geeks and nerds among us – they most definitely weren’t for mainstream consumption. The recent explosion of massively popular movies based on Marvel characters has done much to drag the genre well into the mainstream and with The Wolverine, we have the latest installment of […]
The Wolverine fails in almost every area. Michelle’s Review
What is it about Wolverine? He is a fantastic character in very small doses but take him out of team situations and try and expand on his back-story everything sort of falls apart. Wolverine is a great character because he is a soldier, a killing machine, someone with high standards, a strong moral code and […]
This Is The Wolverine Movie You’ve Been Looking For!
The Wolverine is nothing like the previous films that featured the clawed mutant with the healing factor. That is to its benefit.
The To Do List: Girls Can Be (Awkwardly) Raunchy, Too!
In essence, The To Do List is American Pie for girls – an R-rated comedy that follows a high school valedictorian’s quest to attain sexual experience before college. The R comes from subject matter, situations and language. It doesn’t contain nudity because it doesn’t really need it – and it’s just as funny as guy-orientated […]