Character-driven director Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland) helms Daniel Craig’s second stint as Britain’s best spy-assassin, James Bond. Following immediately on from the events of 2006’s Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace picks up with the capture and interrogation of Casino carry-over Mr White, before moving on to a deeper plot of post 9/11 moral [...]
The last weekend of October was the highest grossing October weekend on record; with Saw 5 and High School Musical 3 taking it there. Saw 5 debuted at number 2 in the box office synching $30.1 million bringing the gross of this series of films to $316 million.
However I take great pride, and I mean [...]
Terrorism. The Global Village. Big Brother. There seems to be quite a lot of films being released lately which touch on these issues. Taken deals with terrorism and international relations (or how not to conduct them), and the up and coming Leonardo DiCaprio film seems to be a more in-depth look in the frequently used [...]
Hollywood Royalty Graces Cheltenham by Tomas J. Thacker
American actor and Hollywood legend Tony Curtis attends the Cheltenham Festival, to launch his new autobiography “American Prince”
Mr Curtis, who has been in over 100 films, including classics such as Some Like it Hot and Spartacus and starred alongside the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant, Laurence Olivier and [...]
After being mistakenly booted from the Playboy mansion, Shelley Darlington (Anna Faris) has nothing left to do but wander the streets in her incredibly skimpy outfits and hooker heels, sleep in her old banger of a car, indecently assault a police officer, spend a night in a cell, and finally come across a road full [...]
Well, there’s a new action hero in town, and it has to be said that this one-man army is particularly credible as the indestructible, ruthless and intelligent ex- CIA ‘operative,’ on a fast paced, no boundaries quest to find his kidnapped daughter.
Liam Neeson plays Bryan, who has retired from his position as ‘preventer’ in [...]
You would have thought it would be difficult to make a comedy about a team of actors trying to make the next Apocalypse Now, but both Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. pull it off with flying colours. Once upon a time a grizzled ’Nam veteran wrote a best-seller about his time in [...]
Pacino and De Niro together again in psychological thriller with a twist… it’s not that good.
The Jon Avnet (of Fried Green Tomatoes fame) directed latest flick for not just one, but two legends of the silver screen – who just happen to be generally regarded amongst the greatest of their generation, was bound to be [...]
The smash hit sparkling sensation of the summer! Mamma Mia has quickly become one of the most anticipated films of 2008, and after years of success on the stage, the story; filled to the brim with music, dancing…..and sequins, has finally hit our cinema screens with a bang!!
The movie is the positive and uplifting, feel [...]
Beginning with a dream of bombs falling from the sky, ending with the blank vision of the apocalypse, and filling the space between with the story of human disconnection. “You, the Living” is a film about humankind, its greatness and its baseness, joy and sorrow, its self- confidence and anxiety, its desire to love and be loved. [...]
