Whisky Galore!, 1949. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick. Starring Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson. SYNOPSIS: Scottish islanders attempt to plunder a ship’s cargo of whisky when it becomes stranded on the shore. Some films need a run-up. They need their entrance onto the DVD market trumpeted by fanfare, or at least a […]

Captain America: The First Avenger, 2011. Directed by Joe Johnston. Starring Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Stanley Tucci, Hayley Atwell, Dominic Cooper, Sebastian Stan and Toby Jones. SYNOPSIS: After volunteering for a top secret military research programme, Steve Rogers is turned into the super soldier Captain America. I’ve never really known much at […]

Cowboys & Aliens, 2011. Directed by Jon Favreau. Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, Clancy Brown and Keith Carradine. SYNOPSIS: When aliens attack the town of Absolution, a loner with no memory of his past holds the key to their defeat. Cowboys and Aliens. Cowboys and aliens. Cowboys… and aliens… […]

Limitless, 2011. Directed by Neil Burger. Starring Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel and Johnny Whitworth. SYNOPSIS: A writer takes an experimental mind-enhancing ‘smart drug’, attracting the attention of shadowy forces determined to use his newfound abilities for their own gain. Is it possible to be a genius in an age when […]

Snowtown, 2011. Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring Daniel Henshall, Lucas Pittaway and Craig Coyne. SYNOPSIS: A drama about the Australian serial killer John Bunting. For those of you out there sick of the raft of Australian true crime T.V interpretations with poor production value, generic formal style and that perhaps ‘glamorize’ society’s ‘underbelly’; Snowtown feels […]

It seems certain that Angelina Jolie will not reprise the role of Lara Croft, the voluptuous pistol wielding archaeologist from the successful Tomb Raider video game franchise. The writers behind the script for Iron Man, Mark Fergus and Hawk Otsby, are attached to a project to reboot the character with an origin story. Earlier this […]

The Tourist, 2010. Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Starring Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton, Steven Berkoff, Rufus Sewell and Christian De Sica. SYNOPSIS: An American tourist becomes entagled in a web of intrigue and danger when he crosses paths with a woman whose lover is wanted by the police and the […]

Horrible Bosses, 2011. Written and Directed by Seth Gordon. Starring Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx. SYNOPSIS: Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness. It’s ‘average new comedy’ time this weekend with the […]

Resurrected, 1989. Directed by Paul Greengrass. Starring David Thewlis, Tom Bell and Rita Tushingham. SYNOPSIS: A British soldier is presumed dead during battle in the Falklands, but when he is found alive suffering from exhaustion and amnesia he is accused of desertion, leading to a hate campaign that spirals out of control. Director Paul Greengrass […]

Arrietty (Japan: Kari-gurashi no Arietti), 2010. Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Featuring the voice talents of Saoirse Ronan, Olivia Colman, Mark Strong, Tom Holland and Phyllida Law. SYNOPSIS: Beneath the floorboards of a sprawling mansion in a magical, overgrown garden in the suburbs of Tokyo, lives tiny 14-year-old Arrietty and her equally tiny parents. I knew […]