Charlotte Stear

In Review: The Watch

by Charlotte Stear 27 August 2012

Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn reunite in The Watch, a comedy that is kind of an attempt at Attack the Block meets The Burbs. A promising premise and with the success of Anchorman, Starsky and Hutch and Dodgeball now a bit of a distant memory, fans of the Frat Pack are no doubt hoping that this [...]

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In Review: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

by Charlotte Stear 11 July 2012

Meet Dodge (Steve Carell), an insurance salesman who isn’t particularly happy in his life but keeps the façade going anyway. When news breaks that a meteor is hurtling towards Earth and there is absolutely no stopping it, it puts everything in perspective… for his wife anyway. After she leaves him, with only three weeks until [...]

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In Review: Chernobyl Diaries

by Charlotte Stear 22 June 2012

When a group of four wide-eyed, bushy tailed American travellers decide that their backpacking adventure needs to be more extreme, none of them expect the nightmare ahead of them. Silly really, had none of them ever seen a horror movie before? This is pretty standard stuff for travellers.

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In Review: What to Expect When You’re Expecting

by Charlotte Stear 22 May 2012

What To Expect When You’re Expecting was off to a bad start when posters appeared with “It’s too late to pull out now” blazoned across it, making it a solid contender for worst tagline ever. It’s understandable that you’d want to erase that from your memory, but halfway through the film it will come back [...]

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