Review

In Review: The Raid

by Rob Keeling 21 April 2012

Gareth Evans’ Indonesian martial arts flick The Raid has been on the film world’s proverbial radar for several months now. It’s been touted as a game-changing action movie and spoken of in the same breath of some absolute titans of the genre, but would it manage to live up to all the hype?

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In Review: Transit

by Jonathan Hatfull 16 April 2012

Jim Caviezel has taken an odd career path since appearing as mankind’s brutalised saviour in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. He took the lead in AMC’s The Prisoner remake, took villain duties in the daft Denzel Washington action flick Déjà vu and even played an alien who crash-lands into a Viking war

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In Review: Delicacy

by Mairéad Roche 13 April 2012

Delicacy is a film made with a delicate touch looking at the sadness and sweetness of a life lived with and without a real love. Audrey Tautou plays Nathalie; a woman who shares the type of true love with husband François (Pio Marmaï) that does not require any fanfare

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In Review: The Big Boss on DVD

by Michael Ewins 7 April 2012

One of the bloodiest, most brutal films of Bruce Lee’s career, The Big Boss (aka Fist Of Fury) was actually conceived as a star project for co-star James Tien, but the pair swapped roles when director Ng Gar Seung was replaced with Lo Wei. Unfortunately, due to this mid-production switcheroo it’s obvious that some scenes [...]

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In Review: The Hunger Games

by Carl Sonley 6 April 2012

The Hunger Games is not Twilight, okay? It’s set in the future after we’ve had a big bust up and been severely chastised by the authorities. Well, now we’ve got that out of the way, let us consider what this new book to film serial juggernaut actually resembles, in style (and substance).

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In Review: Return

by Maryann O'Connor 4 April 2012

Return, written and directed by Liza Johnson, brings a difficult and shadowy subject to the big screen. Kelli (Linda Cardellini) has been away for a good long time, on a soldierly tour of duty and now returns to the bosom of her loving family in Somewhere, USA, ready to live happily ever after. Or not.

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In Review: Into the Abyss – A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life

by Adam Vaughan 31 March 2012

Idiosyncratic director Werner Herzog is the first to admit that the title of his new documentary, Into the Abyss, could apply to any number of his films.

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In Review: Game of Death on DVD

by Ben Sheppard 30 March 2012

Bruce Lee fans will be very excited to hear that some of the Jeet Kune Do founder’s finest work can be found during the run time of Game of Death. Unfortunately, this constitutes roughly fifteen minutes of the film and the remaining footage is, to put it politely, awful. In fact, describing this as a [...]

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In Review: Wrath of the Titans

by Maryann O'Connor 30 March 2012

You may be very wary of seeing ‘Wrath’ considering the destruction of morale that Clash of the Titans left in its wake. Well, you can leave your apprehension to one side

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In Review: In Darkness

by Adam Vaughan 30 March 2012

In Darkness is the aptly titled new film by Agnieszka Holland. As well as having a prolific directorial career in native Poland, to English-speaking audiences, she is perhaps best known for her work on The Wire and the 1993 adaptation of The Secret Garden. With her new film, however, she returns to her country’s tortured [...]

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In Review: StreetDance 2 3D

by Maryann O'Connor 29 March 2012

Who doesn’t love a good dance film? No, before you draw your own conclusions, that was not an early jab at the quality of the film. The UK-produced StreetDance 3D arrived at the box office in 2010, featuring the crème de la crème of the British streetdance world (and George Sampson) battling to overcome the [...]

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