The Other Guys, 2010. Directed by Adam McKay. Starring Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Steve Coogan and Michael Keaton. SYNOPSIS: Two mis-matched New York City police detectives take on an innocuous-looking case and have to step up when it begins to unravel and reveals the city’s biggest crime yet. […]
Thoughts on… Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Charlie St. Cloud, 2010. Directed by Burr Steers. Starring Zac Efron, Amanda Crew, Charlie Tahan and Augustus Prew. SYNOPSIS: Hours after graduating from High School, Charlie St Cloud (Zac Efron) loses his younger brother, Sam (Charlie Tahan), in a car accident. Five years later Charlie, still grief stricken, visits the ghost of his brother every […]
Thoughts on… Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Brokeback Mountain, 2005. Directed by Ang Lee. Starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Linda Cardellini and Randy Quaid. SYNOPSIS: An epic American love story about a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection. Dubbed at the time of release ‘The Gay […]
British Cinema: The Be All and End All (2010)
The Be All and End All, 2010. Directed by Bruce Webb. Starring Josh Bolt, Eugene Byrne and Liza Tarbuck. SYNOPSIS: A teenager suffering from a fatal heart condition has one last wish – to lose his virginity. The Be All and End All is the first feature film by director Bruce Webb. Webb has said […]
Thoughts on… Cyrus (2010)
Cyrus, 2010. Directed by Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass. Starring John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei and Catherine Keener. SYNOPSIS: A likeable loser gets more than he bargained for when he meets the woman of his dreams and discovers the other man in her life – her 21-year-old son. I was never able to […]
Classic Cinema: Animal Crackers (1930)
Animal Crackers, 1930. Directed by Victor Heerman. Starring Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Lillian Roth and Margaret Dumont. SYNOPSIS: The Marx Brothers try to recover a stolen painting during a madcap house party. Animal Crackers is mad. It’s stark raving, piano-lid slamming, trousers-stuffed-with-cutlery mad. How is it that an 80 year old […]
Thoughts on… The Runaways (2010)
The Runaways, 2010. Directed by Floria Sigismondi. Starring Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart, Michael Shannon, Riley Keough, Stella Maeve and Scout Taylor-Compton. SYNOPSIS: A coming-of-age biopic about 70s teenage band The Runaways. Fronted by the then-15 year old-‘jailbait’ blonde Cherie Curie, with backing vocals and electric guitar provided by Joan Jett (who went on to sell […]
World Cinema: Lebanon (2009)
Lebanon, 2009. Written & Directed by Samuel Maoz. Starring Yoav Donat, Zohar Shtrauss, Oshri Cohen. SYNOPSIS: It’s 1982, and the First Lebanon War has just begun. New gunner Shmulik (Yoav Donat) is assigned to a tank team led by Assi (Itay Tiran) along with Hertzel (Oshri Cohen) the shell loader and Yigal (Michael Moshonov) the […]
Thoughts on… The Losers (2010)
The Losers, 2010. Directed by Sylvain White. Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Óscar Jaenada and Jason Patric. SYNOPSIS: In the Bolivian jungle, a group of Special Ops soldiers plan an air strike on a village targeted by the US military. Finding a large amount of children in the […]
Thoughts on… Robin Hood (2010)
Robin Hood, 2010. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Matthew Macfadyen, Mark Strong, William Hurt and Max von Sydow. SYNOPSIS: At the end of the 12th century, common archer Robin Hood makes his way back to England from fighting in King Richard’s crusades in France, only to become involved in another battle, […]
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