Tag: Film Reviews
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'Looper' brings completely fresh approach to time travel | Film Review
Time travel has always been a fascinating subject in popular culture. It is notoriously hard to make a time travel movie whilst keeping an eye on all the various paradoxes that will undoubtedly appear. Somewhere around the ’80s two seminal pieces of film making changed all that – The Terminator and Back To The Future.…
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'Zombie 108' (Directed by Joe Chein) | Film Review
East Asian cinema is renowned for the quality of its genre movies, with Japan and Korea producing some of the scariest horror flicks in the region, terrifying local and international audiences alike. For years, Japanese and Korean filmmakers have thrilled moviegoers, sending shivers down the spines of horror cinephiles with majors hits, cult favourites and…
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The Dark Knight Rises | Film Review
Advance warning: this review will not contain a rigorous nor thorough comparison of The Dark Knight with The Dark Knight Rises – A) because the former was fiercely in a league of its own and we’re not going to see another movie like it, possibly for years, and B) you’ve most probably already been informed…
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Uprising: Hip Hop & The LA Riots (Narrated by Snoop Dogg, Dir. Mark Ford) | Documentary Review
Sometimes the hardest thing to do when you look back at a unique situation is to assess its true impact. It is possible to mould the evidence to fit in with whatever narrative you ultimately choose. Such is the case with the L.A. Riots of 1992: you either believe it was a turning point in…
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Avengers Assemble | Film Review
It can be difficult to determine the start of the summer in this part of the world. One obvious clue is the clocks going forward by one hour and the other slightly more obvious hint is the sudden emergence of superhero movies made with gargantuan budgets in multiplexes all over the Northern Hemisphere. Fortunately, with…
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The Help (Dir. Tate Taylor) | Film Review
When I first read the synopsis of this movie, I let out the most pretentious scoff you have ever seen this side of North London. I was instantly reminded by an interesting phrase used in literature and movies. A phrase popularised by Spike Lee in the early ’90s when discussing movies like ‘Driving Miss Daisy’.…
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Safe House starring Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds | Film Review
Trailers are an art form within themselves. The director has anything between 30 seconds to four minutes to convince you that of all of the movies out there, this is the movie you want to watch. All the while, trying to find a fine balance between revealing important plot lines, scenes, cameos or just general…