Archive for the ‘★ ★ ★ ★’ Category
Showing results 1 - 6 of 77 for the category: ★ ★ ★ ★.
Me and Orson Welles (Review)
If you’re a teenage superstar attached to a mammoth Hollywood franchise, there comes a time in your career when you must prove your worth as an actor and star in a low-key adult drama. Harry Potter’s boy wizard Daniel Radcliffe did it with the Aussie drama December Boys, Twilight’s vampiric heartthrob Rob Pattinson did it with the urban slow-burner Remember Me and now High School Musical’s immaculately chiseled Zac Efron [...]
The Runaways (Review)
If history is anything to go by, the biopic story of seventies all-girl band The Runaways has more meat on it than any filmmaker could dream to mine. Spice it up with kid actress Dakota Fanning’s need to prove she’s a grown-up prime fillet – as the cherry bomb herself, Cherie Currie- and Kristen Stewart’s first real chance to break free from The Twilight Saga phenomenon, spectators will find themselves on a surprisingly wild [...]
The Hedgehog [Le hérisson] (Review)
The Hedgehog, written and directed by Mona Achache and adapted from the novel by Muriel Barbary, begins with a stern and precocious 11 year old named Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic) explaining to her video camera that her sedate bourgeois life is roughly the equivalent of living inside a fishbowl. She declares that in order to escape such a horrible predicament, she will kill herself on her next birthday. A little grim perhaps, but somewhat typical for French quirkiness. [...]
Get Him to the Greek (Review)
If you ever wondered what would happen if Russell Brand relapsed into drugs and took off on a ridiculous adventure, then Nicholas Stoller’s Get Him to the Greek might have your answer. Although the strong cast is enough to sell such a simple plot, Greek has a lot to offer in it’s outrageous portrayal of stardom that will rival anything you see on TMZ.
The A-Team [2010] (Review)
To most of the Generation Y bracket, Mr. T. is ‘the Snickers guy’. But he actually was an actor, for TV series The A-Team is where he first embraced his uniquely tough-yet-flamboyant persona. Fast forward twenty or so years later and we find ourselves with the latest TV-to-film reboot and UFC fighter Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson filling in his shoes. With a few societal changes and some big action, it maintains a wholesome old-school feel that the young’uns just [...]
The Secret in Their Eyes (Review)
Crime-drama movies never really have much trouble satisfying my need for a good, solid story – and I’m not the only one. With the genre’s prevalence in film and television, it’s clear that a simple criminal investigation can go a long way with audiences. Argentinean film, The Secret in Their Eyes is the latest offering of its type, not only meeting my general expectations but surpassing them, with a simple, yet unpredictable plotline that has you guessing until [...]
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