Despicable Me, 2010. Directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud. Featuring the voice talents of Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand and Julie Andrews. SYNOPSIS: Evil supervillain Gru (Steve Carell) finds out he’s not the number one villain anymore and has been replaced by a younger, arrogant teen named Vector (Jason Segel). Determined the return […]

American: The Bill Hicks Story, 2009. Directed by Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas. SYNOPSIS: Photo-animated documentary on the life of comedian’s comedian Bill Hicks. Now here’s an odd fish. A film about the life of Bill Hicks that’s roughly half as vitriolic, hardly anywhere near as controversial, and barely a fraction as funny as the […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]