[Continuing my posting of film reviews I wrote for my student newspaper, this one from 31 October 1997. I was happy to be reviewing this – I like romantic comedies, and I think Salma Hayek is rather sexy (shh, don't tell my girlfriend) – and the review got prime position…
[This the second of my film reviews during my time of writing reviews for my student newspaper, this one from 24 October 1997. I was given a word limit for this review, because I think that the film reviews editor knew that he didn't want to give too much space…
[As I mentioned before, I did film reviews for my student newspaper a long time ago. I turned up to volunteer my services and the film editor luckily said I could have a go. I was happy just to be seeing films for free before they came out in the…
Bad Lieutenant (I shall stop calling it by its full title) is wonderfully bonkers, deliriously barmy, utterly mental and stupidly entertaining. It shouldn't be, but the combination of the fantastic over-the-top performance from Nicolas Cage as the titular policeman and the crazy sensibility that Werner Herzog creates for the film…
If you want to enjoy this film, ignore the fact that its title is Robin Hood; treat it as a historical fantasy and you will find some entertainment value out of this slightly above average but inoffensive action film. I’m not saying that Robin Hood should be historically accurate –…
The thing about Four Lions is that it shouldn’t be funny. The story of a group of radicalised British Muslims who decide on a suicide bomb attack in the UK sounds exactly like the sort of material that is antithetical to comedy; however, this film is hilariously, hugely, warmly funny,…
Another week, another slice of B-movie fun. Centurion is a small British film with a British take on the swords-and-sandals genre. Neil Marshall, writer/director of Dog Soldiers, The Descent and Doomsday, likes putting people in peril; the only difference here is that the people are Roman legionnaires, the time is…
Repo Men is a simple, straight-up piece of genre B-movie; it knows what it is, it enjoys being what it is, and does it without embarrassment or pretension, and I enjoyed it for what it is. Because it is based on a novel by co-screenwriter Eric Garcia (The Repossession Mambo),…
[This is a nice piece of content juxtaposition: on the evening that England play their first game of the 2010 World Cup campaign, I talk about a film about women doing roller derby. Actually, I'm amazed that I'm writing anything today: Super Mario Galaxy 2 arrived and that's been wonderfully…
The World Cup may be starting today, but I'm still catching up on films I saw in the cinema earlier this year. I've reached April (I talked about Kick-Ass when it came out at the time), for those of you at home keeping score, so I might even reach a…