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Paranormal Activity (Review)

After modestly being labelled “one of the scariest movies of all-time” by certain critics following its States side release in October, the ultra low-budget horror Paranormal Activity has managed a feat similar to 1999’s Blair Witch Project in becoming a unexpected US box office sensation. Much of the film’s commercial success owes to a lucrative marketing strategy that initially saw it distributed via a limited ‘demand and supply’ model before generating massive [...]

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Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 3D (Review)

What’s this? A deliciously witty, wildly imaginative and visually spectacular 3D animated film that’s not by Pixar studios!? How did this happen?

Sony Pictures Animation showed promise with 2007’s Surf’s Up, but nobody could have forecast the rare gem that is Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. It will delight the whole family from first frame to last, indulging the audience with an infectious vitality and a constant flow of super-sized laughs. Come next year’s Academy [...]

The French Kissers [Les Beaux Gosses]

Puberty is pimply and awkward and, fittingly enough, so is The French Kissers (Les Beaux Gosses), the debut film of French graphic artist Riad Sattouf. Squeamishly forthright and deliberately rough-around-the-edges, Sattouf’s film humorously captures the weird, wonderful and often humiliating stages of adolescence in a fashion similar to 2007’s Superbad and the British TV show Skins.

Living up to its English title, The French Kissers opens with a positively stomach-churning extreme close-up of [...]

Twilight: New Moon (Review)

Film critics are conceited by definition, but we’re not smug enough to think that the legions of Twilight fans could give two hoots about our opinion on their beloved franchise. That much was clear when last year’s Twilight managed to pull an impressive $380 million at the global box office, despite the fact that a majority of critics (i.e. myself) considered it a droning, ineptly crafted teen-romance. It has therefore been in the best interest of this year’s [...]

The Invention of Lying (Review)

The art of keeping up appearances through both lying and telling the truth has been explored in various Hollywood films over time. Strangely enough, Jim Carrey comes to mind – he’s involved himself on both sides (think The Truman Show and Liar Liar). But when one of Hollywood’s newer funny-men introduces himself to the ‘lie’ sub-genre in a film concerning the invention of the lie, it appears to be a fresh idea full of possibilities. Englishman Ricky Gervais [...]