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 [...]

The Killer Inside Me (Review)

When Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, one of the film’s stars, Jessica Alba (Fantastic Four), reportedly walked out of the cinema half way through the screening. But who can blame her? This grim look into the psyche of a serial killer is so sadistically violent in parts, its borderline torture porn. As far as crime thrillers go, it’s also quite a bore.

The film marks the second failed attempt to adapt [...]

The Ghost Writer (Review)

When I mentioned my anticipation for Roman Polaski’s new political thriller The Ghost Writer in conversation with a friend, they frowned upon me like I had said something seriously wrong. At first I thought it was a reaction to Polanski’s famed criminal convictions from the 1970s – the man’s a fugitive paedophile-rapist, don’t you know — but it turns out that had nothing to do with it. More innocently, it was because they had confused the film [...]

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (His Review)

For the two tortuous hours of “You love ME, Bella!” “No, you really love ME!”  that is The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, I had plenty of time to stare longingly at the luminous green exit sign, contemplating an answer to the almighty question that has baffled millions across the globe: What is so damn phantasmagorical about Twilight?

Well, the obvious answer is because it stars teenage heartthrobs Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. But I think there’s more [...]

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 [...]

The Back-Up Plan (Review)

Here we go again, on the winter eve of another J-Lo album release comes yet ANOTHER J-Lo movie. Yes, it is a romantic comedy. Yes, it does put Jenny from the Block in the shoes of an unlucky-in-love but incredibly nice lady, once again. And YES, this one is also destined to be forgotten as quickly as you can say ¡Hola!