First things first: Salt is deliriously, wonderfully, stupidly preposterous; it's implausible, it's over the top, and frankly that's the whole point. It's 95 minutes of almost constant chase scenes, handled effectively and its lead is perfect in the role, doing action and acting and looking fantastic throughout. From a script…
I didn't want to see Toy Story 3 when I first heard about it, especially as it was to be 3D. The first two films were so perfect, I didn't think Pixar could match them; I thought that it was Disney milking a lucrative franchise. And I was going off…
I think that my love of genre entertainment comes across strongly on this blog, which is why I wanted to see this film. I wasn’t expecting it to be anything special, but I was curious to see how the film would handle magic in the modern setting. The end result…
I'm going to admit it up front: I rather enjoyed this film. I'm not saying that it's perfect by any means, but it was an entertaining way to spend two hours in the cinema. There were laughs, there was spectacle, there were explosions, there was characterisation, there was fun. Admittedly,…
Breaking my routine by talking about a film I have seen in the same week – I thought I should get in to the habit. The other reason is that this film has playing again and again in my head, providing me with continued joy after the credits rolled. I've…
Splice is not the sort of film I would normally watch because, even though it is billed as a science fiction horror, it is the horror part that I don't particularly care for. If you were of a mind to search my archives, you wouldn't find many (if any) horror…
I had thought to write about this fabulous film when I first saw it, but the ocean of writing about Inception on the internet put me off – all the theories and beautifully written praise rather overwhelmed me. I won't be adding to much to that ocean, but I couldn't…
The World Cup finally beat the cinema: I didn't go to the cinema for two weeks because the studios were so scared of a bunch of football games. The first film to come out after the drought was Predators, which is very different from the last four films I've talked…
This is the third film (after Greenberg and Please Give) in the run of ‘Films I watched because there was nothing else on due to the World Cup scaring the studios’. I went to see Wild Target because of some small sense of patriotism: I’d watched two US indies, so…
This falls under the same category for me as Greenberg: a film I wouldn't have gone to see in the cinema if there had been the normal selection in the middle of the summer but wasn't because the studios avoided the four weeks of the World Cup. This isn't to…