Reviews Archive 4

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Movie Reviews
S 
Safe (2012, dir. Boaz Yakin)
Safe House (2012, dir. Daniel Espinosa) 
Safe House (2012, dir. Daniel Espinosa)
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012, dir. Colin Trevorrow) 
Saint (2010, dir. Dick Maas)
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011, dir. Lasse Hallstrom) 
Salò, (1975, dir Pier Paolo Pasolini)
The Salt of Life (2011, dir. Gianni Di  Gregorio)
Samsara (2011, dir. Ron Fricke)
The Sapphires (2012, dir. Wayne Blair) 
Savages (2012, dir. Oliver Stone)
Savages (2012, dir. Oliver Stone)
Savage Streets (1984, dir. Danny Steinmann)
Save Your Legs! (2013, dir. Boyd Hicklin)
The Scarlet Blade (1965, dir. John Gilling)
Scarface (1932, dir. Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson)
Scott Pilgrim vs The World (2010, dir. Edgar Wright) 
Scum (1979, dir. Alan Clarke)
The Searchers (1956, dir. John Ford)
Searching for Sugar Man (2012, dir. Malik Bendjelloul)
Season of the Witch (2011, dir. Dominic Sena)
Seconds Apart (2011, dir. Antonio Negret)
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012, dir. Lorene Scafaria)
Senna (2010, dir. Asif Kapadia)
Sensation (2010, dir. Tom Hall)
Seven Psychopaths (2012, dir. Martin McDonagh)
Seven Psychopaths (2012, dir. Martin McDonagh)
Seven Psychopaths (2012, dir. Martin McDonagh)
Seven Psychopaths (2012, dir. Martin McDonagh)
Shadow Dancer (2012, dir. James Marsh) 
Shadow Dancer (2012, dir. James Marsh)
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959, dir. Michael Anderson) 
Shame (2011, dir. Steve McQueen)
Shaolin (2011, dir. Benny Chan)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011, dir. Guy Ritchie)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011, dir. Guy Ritchie)
Shield of Straw (2013, dir. Takashi Miike)
Shifty (2008, dir. Eran Creevy)
Shiver (2008, dir. Isidro Ortiz)
Shoah (1985, dir. Claude Lanzmann) 
Short Circuit (1986, dir. John Badham)
Shutter Island (2010, dir. Martin Scorsese) 
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997, dir. Kirby Dick)
Side by Side (2012, dir. Christopher Kenneally)
Side by Side (2012, dir. Christopher Kenneally) 
Side Effects (2013, dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Side Effects (2013, dir. Steven Soderbergh) 
Sightseers (2012, dir. Ben Wheatley)
Sightseers (2012, dir. Ben Wheatley) 
Sightseers (2012, dir. Ben Wheatley) 
The Silent House (2010, dir. Gustavo Hernandez) 
Silver Linings Playbook (2012, dir. David O. Russell)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012, dir. David O. Russell) 
Silver Linings Playbook (2012, dir. David O. Russell) 
Sin Nombre (2009, dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga)
Sinister (2012, dir. Scott Derrickson)
Siren (2010, dir. Andrew Hull)
Sister (2012, dir. Ursula Meier)
Skin (2008, dir. Hanro Smitsman)
Skyfall (2012, dir. Sam Mendes)
Skyfall (2012, dir. Sam Mendes)  
Skyfall (2012, dir. Sam Mendes)
Skyfall (2012, dir. Sam Mendes) 
The Skin I Live In (2011, dir. Pedro Almodovar) 
The Skin I Live In (2011, dir. Pedro Almodovar)
Slaughter High (1986, dir. George Dugdale, Mark Ezra and Peter Litten)
Sleepaway Camp (1983, dir. Robert Hiltzick) 
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988, dir. Michael A. Simpson)
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989, dir. Michael A. Simpson)  
Sleepwalk with Me (2012, dir. Mike Birbiglia and Seth Barrish)
Sliding Doors (1998, dir. Peter Howitt)
Snowtown (2011, dir. Justin Kurzel)
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012, dir. Rupert Sanders) 
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012, dir. Rupert Sanders)
The Social Network (2010, dir. David Fincher) 
The Social Network (2010, dir. David Fincher) 
Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012, dir Bob Byington)
Some Guy Who Kills People (2011, dir. Jack Perez)
Somers Town (2008, dir. Shane Meadows)
Sometimes City (2011, dir. Tom Jarmusch)
Sometimes They Come Back (1991, dir. Tom McLoughlin)
The Soul of Flies (2010, dir. Jonathan Cenzual Burley) 
The Sound of Music (1965, dir. Robert Wise)
The Sound of Old Rooms (2011, dir. Sandeep Ray) 
Source Code (2011, dir. Duncan Jones)
Source Code (2011, dir. Duncan Jones)
Source Code (2011, dir. Duncan Jones)
South Central (1992, dir. Stephen Milburn Anderson)
Southern Comfort (1981, dir. Walter Hill)
Spanish Fly (1976, dir. Bob Kellett)
Special Forces (2011, dir. Stephane Rybojad) 
Splice (2010, dir. Vincenzo Natali)
Spring Breakers (2012, dir. Harmony Korine)
The Squad (2011, dir. Jaime Osorio Marquez)
Stake Land (2010, dir. Jim Mickle)
Stand By Me (1986, dir. Rob Reiner) 
Stand Up Guys (2012, dir. Fisher Stevens) 
Starbuck (2011, dir. Ken Scott) 
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982, dir. Nicholas Meyer)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013, dir. J.J. Abrams)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013, dir. J.J. Abrams)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013, dir. J.J. Abrams)  
Stash House (2012, dir. Eduardo Rodriguez)
Stoker (2013, dir. Chan-wook Park)
Stolen (2012, dir. Simon West) 
Stop the Pounding Heart (2013, dir. Roberto Minervini)
The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971, dir. Sergio Martino)
Street Wars (2011, dir. Keoni Waxman)
Storage 24 (2012, dir. Johannes Roberts)
Storm Surfers 3D (2012, dir. Justin McMillan and Christopher Nelius) 
Stranger by the Lake (2013)
Submarine (2010, dir. Richard Ayoade)
Sucker Punch (2011, dir. Zack Snyder)
Sucker Punch (2011, dir. Zack Snyder) 
Super (2010, dir. James Gunn)
Super 8 (2011, dir. J.J. Abrams)
Super 8 (2011, dir. J.J. Abrams) 
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006, dir. Richard Donner)
The Superman Motion Picture Anthology (1978-2006)
Surf Nazis Must Die (1987, dir. Peter George)
Surrogates (2009, dir. Jonathan Mostow)
Surviving Life (2010, dir. Jan Svankmajer)
Susana (1951, dir. Luis Buñuel)
Swinging with the Finkels (2011, dir. Jonathan Newman) 
Synedoche, New York (2008, dir. Charlie Kaufman)

T 
Taken 2 (2012, dir. Olivier Megaton) 
Taken 2 (2012, dir. Olivier Megaton)
Takers (2010, dir. John Luessenhop) 
Take Shelter (2011, dir. Jeff Nichols)
Tales from Earthsea (2006, dir. Goro Miyazaki)
Tales from the Organ Trade (2013, dir. Ric Esther Bienstock)
The Tall Man (2012, dir. Pascal Laugier)
Tamara Drewe (2010, dir. Stephen Frears)
Tangled (2010, dir. Nathan Greno and Byron Howard)
Ted (2012, dir. Seth MacFarlane)
Ted (2010, dir. Seth MacFarlane)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, dir. Steve Barron)  
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991, dir. Michael Pressman)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993, dir. Stuart Gillard) 
Terror Trap (2010, dir. Dan Garcia)
Thale (2012, dir. Aleksander Nordaas)
That's My Boy (2012, dir. Sean Anders)
There Be Dragons (2011, dir. Roland Joffe)
Thief (1981, dir. Michael Mann) 
The Thing (2011, dir. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.)
Things I Don't Understand (2011, dir. David Spaltro)
The Thin Red Line (1964, dir Andrew Marton)
This Boy's Life (1993, dir. Michael Caton-Jones)
Thor (2011, dir. Kenneth Branagh)
Thor (2011, dir. Kenneth Branagh)
Thor (2011, dir. Kenneth Branagh)
Thor: The Hammer of the Gods (2009, dir. Todor Chapkanov)
Three Kings (1999, dir. David O. Russell)
The Three Stooges (2012, dir. Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly) 
Thursday Till Sunday (2012, dir. Dominga Sotomayor Castillo)
Tiger Bay (1934, dir. J. Elder Willis)
Titanic (1997, dir. James Cameron)
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962, dir. Robert Mulligan)
To Rome with Love (2012, dir. Woody Allen)
To the Wonder (2012, dir. Terrence Malick)
To Walk with Lions (1999, dir. Carl Schultz)
Top Cat: The Movie (2011, dir. Alberto Mar) 
Total Recall (2012, dir. Len Wiseman)
Total Recall (2012, dir. Len Wiseman)
Total Recall (2012, dir. Len Wiseman)
Toy Story 3 (2010, dir. Lee Unkrich)
The Thing (2011, dir. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.)
The Tourist (2010, dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
The Transformers: The Movie (1986, dir. Nelson Shin)
TMNT (2007, dir. Kevin Munroe)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011, dir. Michael Bay)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011, dir. Michael Bay)
Treasure of the Black Jaguar (2010, dir. Mike Bruce)
The Tree of Life (2011, dir. Terrence Malick)
The Tree of Life (2011, dir. Terrence Malick)
The Tree of Life (2011, dir. Terrence Malick)
The Tin Star (1957, dir. Anthony Mann)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011, dir. Tomas Alfredson)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011, dir. Tomas Alfredson)
Top Gun (1986, dir. Tony Scott) 
Total Recall (2012, dir. Len Wiseman) 
Total Recall (2012, dir. Len Wiseman)
Transit (2012, dir. Antonio Negret)
Trapeze (1956, dir. Carol Reed)
Tremors (1990, dir. Ron Underwood)  
Trance (2013, dir. Danny Boyle)
Trance (2013, dir. Danny Boyle) 
Trespass (2011, dir. Joel Schumacher)
Trouble with the Curve (2012, dir. Robert Lorenz)
Tron: Legacy (2010, dir. Joseph Kosinski)
Tron: Legacy (2010, dir. Joseph Kosinski)
True Grit (1969, dir. Henry Hathaway) 
True Grit (2010, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen) 
True Grit (2010, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
The Truman Show (1998, dir. Peter Weir)
TT3D: Closer to the Edge (2011, dir. Richard De Aragues)
The Tunnel (2001, dir. Roland Suso Richter)
Twice Round the Daffodils (1962, dir. Gerald Thomas) 
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (dir. Bill Condon)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (dir. Bill Condon)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (dir. Bill Condon)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (dir. Bill Condon) 
The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell (dir. Sergio Machado)
Tyrannosaur (2011, dir. Paddy Considine)

U
The Undercover War (2009, dir. Nicolas Steil)
Une Femme est une Femme (1961, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012, dir. John Hyams)
The Unforgiven (1960, dir. John Huston) 
The Unforgiving (2010, dir. Alastair Orr)Unstoppable (2010, dir. Tony Scott) 
Unthinkable (2010, dir. Gregor Jordan)
Untouchable (2011, dir. Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano)
Up (2009, dir. Pete Doctor and Bob Peterson)
Up in the Air (2009, dir. Jason Reitman)
Up There (2012, dir. Zam Salim) 
Upstream Colour (2013, dir. Shane Carruth) 
V
V/H/S (2012, dir. various)
The Victim (2006, dir. Monthon Arayangkoon)
The Victim (2011, dir. Michael Biehn)
The Violent Kind (2010, dir. Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores) 
The Violent Zone (2002, dir. Victor Nunez)

W
Wake Wood (2011, dir. David Keating
Waldo the Dog (2010, dir. Kris Canonizado)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010, dir. Oliver Stone)
Wanderlust (2012, dir. David Wain)
The Ward (2010, dir. John Carpenter) 
War Horse (2011, dir. Steven Spielberg)
War Horse (2011, dir. Steven Spielberg)
War Horse (2011, dir. Steven Spielberg) 
Warlock (1989, dir. Steve Miner)
Warm Bodies (2013, dir. Jonathan Levine)
War of Resistance (2011, dir.  Peter C. Spencer)
War of the Dead (2011, dir. Marko Makilaakso)
Warrior (2011, dir. Gavin O'Connor)
Warrior (2011, dir. Gavin O'Connor)
The Warriors (1979, dir. Walter Hill)
The Warrior's Path (2009, dir. Thanapon Maliwan)
Wasted on the Young (2010, dir. Ben C. Lucas)
The Watch (2012, dir. Akiva Schaffer)
The Watch (2012, dir. Akiva Schaffer) 
The Watermen (2011, dir. Matt L. Lockhart)
The Way Back (2010, dir. Peter Weir)
The Way of the Gun (2000, dir. Christopher McQuarrie)
We Are What We Are (2010, dir. Jorge Michel Grau)
We Are What We Are (2010, dir. Jorge Michel Grau)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011, dir. Lynne Ramsay)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011, dir. Lynne Ramsay) 
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011, dir. Lynne Ramsay)
Welcome to the Punch (2013, dir. Eran Creevy) 
Welcome to the Punch (2012, dir. Eran Creevy)
Went the Day Well? (1942, dir. Alberto Cavalcanti)
West is West (2010, dir. Andy DeEmmony)
What Have You Done to Solange? (1972, dir. Massimo Dallamano)
What Richard Did (2013, dir. Lenny Abrahamson)
What's Your Number? (2011, dir. Mark Mylod)
When We Were Kings (1996, dir. Leon Gast)
Where Do We Go Now? (2011, dir. Nadine Labaki)
Whisky Galore (1949, dir. Alexander Mackendrick)
Whisper of the Heart (1995, dir. Yoshifumi Kondo)
White Tiger (2012, dir. Karen Shakhnazarov)
The Wicker Tree (1011, dir. Robin Hardy)
Wild Bill (2011, dir. Dexter Fletcher) 
Winter's Bone (2010, dir. Debra Granik) 
Win Win (2011, dir. Thomas McCarthy)
Win Win (2011, dir. Thomas McCarthy) 
Wish You Were Here (2012, dir. Kieran Darcy-Smith)
Withnail & I (1987, dir. Bruce Robinson)
Without a Clue (1988, dir. Thom Eberhardt)
Witness (1985, dir. Peter Weir)
The Wolfman (2010, dir. Joe Johnston)
The Woman (2011, dir. Lucky McKee) 
The Woman in Black (2012, dir. James Watkins)
The Woman in Black (2012, dir. James Watkins)
Womb (2010, dir. Benedek Fliegauf)
The World Before Her (2012, dir. Nisha Pahuja)   
World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries 2 (dir. Michael Bartlett and Kevin Gates)
Wrath of the Titans (2012, dir. Jonathan Liebesman)
Wreckage (2010, dir. John Mallory Asher)
Wreck-It Ralph (2012, dir. Rich Moore)
Wreck-It Ralph (2012, dir. Rich Moore)

X 
X-Men: First Class (2011, dir. Matthew Vaughn)
X-Men: First Class (2011, dir. Matthew Vaughn)
X-Men: First Class (2011, dir. Matthew Vaughn)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, dir. Gavin Hood) 
Xtro (1983, dir. Harry Bromley Davenport)

Y 
Yamada: Way of the Samurai (2010, dir. Nopporn Watin)
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982, dir. Peter Weir)
You Aint's Seen Nothin' Yet (2012, dir. Alain Resnais)
You Will Be My Son (2011, dir. Gilles Legrand) 
Young Adult (2011, dir. Jason Reitman)
Young Bruce Lee (2010, dir. Manfred Wong and Wai Man Yip) 
You Only Live Once (1937, dir. Fritz Lang)

Z 
Zaytoun (2012, dir. Eran Riklis)
Zaytoun (2012, dir. Eran Riklis)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012, dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012, dir. Kathryn Bigelow) 
Zero Dark Thirty (2012, dir. Kathryn Bigelow) 
Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979, dir. Lucio Fulci)
ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (2009, dir. Kevin Hamedani)
Zombieland (2009, dir. Ruben Fleischer)
Zodiac (2007, dir. David Fincher)
Zombie Undead (2010, dir. Rhys Davies)

TV Reviews
Accused - Series 1 
Defenders of the Earth - The Complete Series
Dexter: The Sixth Season
Episodes - Season 2 
Family Guy: It's a Trap! 
Filthy, Rich & Catflap
Ghost Stories from the BBC - Volume 1
Ghost Stories from the BBC - Volume 2
House of Cards - Season 1
House of Lies - Season 1
Jean Claude Van Damme: Behind Closed Doors
Mayday
Parks and Recreation: Season One
Parks and Recreation: Season Four
Power Rangers Samurai
Prisoners of War - Series 1 
Robot Chicken Season 2
The Royle Family: Barbara's Old Ring
Sebastian Bergman - Series 1
South Park - The Complete Fifteenth Season 
Star Wars: Robot Chicken Episode II
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Complete Season One
Ultraviolet: The Complete Series
Unit One - Season One
The Walking Dead: The Complete Second Season 

Book Reviews
AMPED 
Bleak
Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Film-makers from Iran and Turkey 
Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again
Drive 
Driven 
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: From Concept to Classic
Framing Film 
The Games
Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen
The Jaws Log 
The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Nexus
Peter Weir: A Creative Journey From Australia To Hollywood
Polanski and Perception
Robopocalypse
Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine
World Film Locations Series

Other Reviews
Batman Live
James Bond 007: Blood Stone