The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Review)

Harry Potter is about a nerdy 10 year-old boy who is informed by a wise and powerful wizard that he is the ‘chosen one’ fated to stop an evil force from taking over the world. In contrast, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is about a nerdy 10 year-old boy who is informed by a wise and powerful sorcerer that he is the ‘Prime Merlinian’ fated to stop an evil force from taking over the world.

Of course, the [...]

Despicable Me (Review)

Sometimes in cinema, we see a movie that can’t really be criticised without sounding as if we expect everything to be a masterpiece. Sometimes a film will exhibit obnoxious, uninspired, lazy or subjectively displeasing elements that we can confidently criticise and openly disapprove of. However, if your biggest criticism of the picture is: “it’s no Citizen Kane” or “it’s no Shawshank Redemption”, you truly have nothing substantial to dislike. For me, this situation applies to Despicable Me; the latest computer [...]

Farewell [L'Affaire] (Review)

Farewell, a French film directed by Christian Carion, delves into the true story of Sergei Gregoriev (Emir Kusturica), a KGB officer who dramatically alters the espionage landscape of the Cold War by betraying the Kremlin’s greatest intelligence secrets to NATO. In order to give Soviet counterintelligence the slip, Gregoriev – given the codename ‘Farewell’ by French intelligence – uses ‘everyman’ French engineer, Pierre Froment (Guilluame Canet), as his agent and go-between with Western Intelligence. The information he supplies [...]

Sex and the City 2 (Review)

It’s fair to say the four sassy ladies that make Sex and the City love to please their fans. It’s also fair to say that they love wearing the entire 2009-2010 Christian Louboutin (heel) collection and poofy Chanel skirts. So it’s a win for both worlds as (particularly) the ladies of the world are delivered another slice of Sex in what should be the group’s last adventure. Because by this point it’s become unnecessary, and because this time around they’ve [...]