Reviews
‘Blindness’ - Mixed Reviews
”Blindness may well be the bleakest curtain raiser in the history of the festival, a nightmarish parable of the apocalypse, directed by the Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles and just as impressive in its way as his career-making City of God.”
“Blindness is a drum-tight drama, with superb, hallucinatory images of urban collapse. It has a real […]
‘Margot At The Wedding’ - Review
Noah Baumbach’s ‘Margot At The Wedding‘ is an ambitious, tart-tasting exploring some unhappy middle-class lives and picking at the scars of rivalry.
Margot (Nicole Kidman) is a writer who appears to have the best intention with her sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) when she agrees to attend her wedding. She arrives with her son and takes […]
‘4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days’ Movie Review
The setting for this grippingly horrible movie is Romania, in 1987: that is, two years before Nicolae Ceausescu was executed, but nine years after he was awarded an honorary knighthood by the Labour government of James Callaghan - and 20 years after he had outlawed abortion in Romania to increase the birth rate.
It all seems […]
‘Zodiac’ Review
Based on the true story of one of the most intriguing unsolved crimes, ‘Zodiac’ is a thriller from David Fincher, director of ‘Se7en’ and ‘Fight Club’. We already knew David Fincher could craft the perfect serial killer movie.
Fincher and the screenwriter were smart in choosing not to distort the Zodiac story to adapt it […]
‘Bee Movie’ Review
Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Patrick Warburton, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Kathy Bates, Barry Levinson, Larry King, Ray Liotta, Oprah Winfrey…
There’s been a lot of buzz about Jerry Seinfeld’s new film over the past couple of years - being a CGI project, it’s taken that long to make it – and though the wait […]
‘There Will be Blood’
‘There Will be Blood’ is the latest in a string of 2007 films hell bent on depending on an audience’s use of their brain just as much as their eyes. Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson has taken Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel “Oil!” and woven an interesting character piece drenched in dust and darkness.
From the start and […]
"Charlie Wilson’s War" Movie Review
It’s amazing to me that a film like Charlie Wilson’s War, a film about key events in the United State’s history, a film where the consequences of the events are being felt very harshly today, a film with MULTIPLE Oscar winners like Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman can get so little […]
Juno: Movie Review
From a first impression, it would seem that all the ingredients are in place for “Juno” – the story of a high school junior who finds herself pregnant – to become the breakout indie hit of 2007. The new-on-the-scene screenwriter with an ear for ultra-snappy, ironic dialogue (Diablo Cody, already garnering comparisons to Tarantino), […]
