Movie Review: Lawless

I have a confession to make. I'm a Shia LeBeouf fan. I have been since he was in the kids show Even Stevens, where he was incredibly funny and charming as the slightly goofy protagonist. As the more than slightly goofy younger brother to a well behaved and academically gifted older sister, I could kinda …

DVD Roundup: The Vow and The Cabin in the Woods

Warning. May contain spoilers. This rather mismatched double bill is courtesy of LoveFilm choosing to send these two flicks to me at the same time. I'd chosen both as I missed them in the cinema last year, but watching them back-to-back was a bit weird. First up, is The Vow. This is a romantic drama …

2012 Retrospective

It's the final day of the year and from tomorrow it'll be 2013, and we'll have teenagers who have been born in the 21st century, a fact which makes me feel incredibly old. Tomorrow I'll spend a lot of time looking ahead to the New Year and making resolutions that I'll probably not follow in …

Favourite Films of 2012

So here are my top 10 films of the year, you can read my full reviews underneath the Films 2012 tag along with the flicks that didn't make the list. 10. Ted Seth MacFarlane's first movie uses tricks borrowed from his TV work in being filled with pop culture references and close-to-the-knuckle gags. The central …

Movie Review: The Five-Year Engagement

I love romcoms, and the key to a successful romcom are the leads (Grant/Hepburn, Crystal/Ryan, Hanks/Ryan, Grant/Roberts, Bullock/Pullman, Rogen/Heigl) and this movie benefits from having  a pair of brilliant performers, Jason Segel and Emily Blunt. They play Tom and Violet, a couple who get engaged after a year together. Tom is a chef and doing well …

Movie Review: Skyfall

After all the hype, the ridiculous sponsorship deals and marketing machine I finally got around to watching Skyfall today. And they've really pulled a great movie out of the bag to mark the world's favourite spy's 50th anniversary. Daniel Craig's third outing is a return to the form showed in Casino Royale after the massively …

Movie Review: Frankenweenie

I think I've mentioned before that I've got mixed feelings about the director Tim Burton, I've really enjoyed some of his flicks (Beetlejuice, Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow) and I do enjoy the gothic vibe and sense of humour he brings to a lot of his flicks, but there are times when I think his …

Movie Review: Taken 2

The follow up to the hugely successful action thriller Taken arrives, and this time its even more personal. In 2008, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) went on a roaring rampage of revenge across Paris to get his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) back from East European human traffickers. Along the way he killed, tortured and maimed his …

Movie Review: Looper

As ever I've done my best to avoid spoilers but its probably best if you go in knowing as little about the movie as possible. Comparisons with The Matrix. Glowing reviews. A badass trailer. The fact Joseph Gordon-Levitt doesn't really look like Bruce Willis. Going into Looper I had some baggage, but it blew them …

Movie Review: Dredd

Are you alone as you sit down to read this? Have a look around just to be sure nobody's around because I have a secret to share...Okay, ready? I have a bit of a soft spot for the 1995 Sylvester Stallone movie Judge Dredd.   Don't get me wrong, it's nothing like the comics, horribly …