I try to remain impartial when I see a film, to give an unbiased opinion about the movie (as all reviews are – I can’t really call myself a critic, I just liked the name for the blog). However, try as I might, I really can’t be a completely objective…
Because you asked for them (and didn't understand the title) … DVD reviews: Wedding Crashers I probably shouldn’t have watched Wedding Crashers; the central premise is something I find objectionable, so why should I enjoy the film just because it has the comedy talents of Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughan?…
The Mission: Impossible film franchise is not really Mission: Impossible. It is the 'Tom Cruise does spy stuff and explosions' franchise. The television series was a real ensemble piece, with Peter Graves providing a regular leader. The films have changed it so that Ethan Hunt is the star, and the…
The American high school seems to be the versatile and fertile ground for re-imagining old stories and styles for a new look: Clueless was Emma with Valley speak; 10 Things I Hate about You was The Taming of the Shrew; She’s All That was a low-quality Pygmalion; The Faculty was…
The main reason for seeing Confetti, for me, was not just the fact that it was a British film and a comedy, but for the people in it. Have you got your scorecard ready? Jessica Stephenson (Spaced) Martin Freeman (The Office, The Robinsons) Robert Webb (Peep Show) Olivia Coleman (Peep…
I got around to seeing Sky High on DVD on the weekend, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I’d heard nice things about it, but you can never tell until you see it for yourself. It is not a groundbreaking film in anyway – it is a coming-of-age story, formulated exactly to…
Or, Ruminations on Elektra, Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD, and Lemony Snicket's An Unfortunate Series of Events Apart from the fact that I saw these films recently, and they are of varying levels of poorness, they are linked by an underlying question: what were the makers hoping to achieve by…
MirrorMask is what I imagine it is like inside the head of Dave McKean. It feels like the three-dimensional realisation of what goes on inside the mind of a gifted artist, who sees the world ever so slightly different to the rest of the world. Helena (Stephanie Leonidas) is a…
Capote is a well-made, intelligent, well-acted piece of cinema that tells an interesting story about a writer without just it being about a man at a typewriter, looking out the window and smoking. However, like the central conflict at the heart of the film, there is an issue of detachment.…
I felt a little sorry for Good Night, And Good Luck at the BAFTAs. It got loaded with big award nominations, yet left empty-handed. It seemed like a worthwhile film that wouldn’t get the respect it deserved. It didn’t make me see the film; I had made that decision already.…