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The Illusionist (2006) (Review)

Magic is a fascinating art form because it plays with our need to discover the illusion, whilst feeding our desire for it to be real supernatural power. Neil Burger’s The Illusionist takes this desire and runs with it, constructing a world where the audience is asked to question whether events in the film are mystical or trickery. The same technique was used in Christopher Nolan’s thriller The Prestige with great success. Unfortunately, The Illusionist provides a less stimulating [...]

Coffin Rock (Review)

Just off the beaten track from Wolf Creek and Cape Fear is Rupert Glasson’s promising feature debut Coffin Rock; a must-see destination for deftly crafted thrills and chills. In fact, this surprisingly good thriller might even satisfy those without a lust for blood, as the film initially masquerades as an earnest drama about a rural couple’s fruitless attempt to conceive a child. But as soon as a psychopathic third party gets involved (ala Fatal Attraction with the gender [...]

The Informant! (Review)

Steven Soderbergh’s had a busy 2009, first with the release of Che (parts One and Two), and then The Girlfriend Experience. His latest is The Informant!, different in style to both of these films but with a similar theme (of a human just trying to make their way in the world). To be a whistleblower and rat out your employers is a big ask on anybody; people like Erin Brokovich won their cases with no direct connection to [...]

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 [...]

2012 (Review)

Like a super-sized version of his earlier film The Day After Tomorrow, Roland Emmerich’s 2012^th epic disaster movie to date (give or take) is spectacularly loud, laughably ludicrous and insanely entertaining for all the wrong reasons.  The phrase ‘so bad it’s good’ just doesn’t quite cut it; 2012 is a full-blown disaster both on and off the screen, which is exactly what makes it so much fun.

This time round, Emmerich has kindly provided us with [...]

Michael Jackson’s This Is It (Review)

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you’ll dance in your seat throughout This Is It…as long as you’re a Michael Jackson fan. If you’re like me – neither a lover nor hater of MJ– then you’ll be bored stiff within the hour.  That’s because This is It is little more than what you’d see in the special features of a concert DVD; there’s MJ rehearsing, then there’s MJ rehearses a little bit more, and for the final climactic act, [...]