Reviews in a nutshell
Marseilles is a brutal place, it seems, especially if you are/were Mafioso. Basically, you have zero chance of ever going straight and living a quiet life. This is the premise behind director Richard Berry’s mobster revenge spree, 22 Bullets, starring internationally respected Gallic star Jean Reno as former Marseilles Mafioso Charley Mattei who discovers that …
The draw of a good film is mainly in the story it has to tell, and for this reason, The Last Airbender scores higher because it’s a thought- and imagination-provoking tale of feuding parts that if they lived in harmony could be as one. The problem is the concept was given to such a hit-and-miss …
Tom Cruise is not bowing out of the action just yet, it seems, and appears to have used this latest project as a Mission Impossible IV (2011) warm up with an attractive co-star in tow in Cameron Diaz. If nothing else, Knight and Day proves that the Cruise and Diaz chemistry still works with his …
It’s the week for the remakes. All those fond childhood memories of TV and films from the 80s, and for some of us fans, a nervous wait to see what’s been done to our beloved characters that were so iconic at the time. So, although The A-Team got a bit of a kicking, there is …
A-Team, we have a problem… Trouble is, not sure if you can help us? We need to get back down to earth and have our eyeballs re-attached into their sockets, please. To say that there isn’t lots of big, brash and ballsy fun to be had with Joe Carnahan’s film version would be untrue, including …
No film is ever ‘perfect’, especially at the time of release, though many a film critic will have their favourites that nearly touch that impossible mark. What these films become are examples of near perfection in their own right, studied and lauded by all. The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan many well have placed his …
Face it, all you cynics: The Twilight Saga is here to stay, long after the books are read and the final films are (re)watched to death (pardon the pun). And it isn’t just hormonal teens or sad, lonely singletons that fit into the Twihard category – the latter having had Sex and the City 2 …
Can Adrien Brody pass as an action hero? Yes, he certainly can, considering the large combat boots he’s had to fill, vacated by Schwarzenegger after the original 1987 film. As no-nonsense mercenary Royce, growling his way through this episode, Brody successfully plays totally against type, acting as one major factor that hooks you in and …
In the famous words of one American icon, “I have a dream…”, Hollywood got all giddy and happily jumped aboard the James Cameron vision express with his latest epic, Avatar, even though the blockbuster film-maker of Aliens, Terminator and The Abyss has been less than influential (studio-translated, ‘mega profitable’) on the movie scene over the …
