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Green Zone (Review)

While George W. Bush was prematurely touting “Mission Accomplished” from the deck of the USS Lincoln back in May 2003, super soldier Roy Miller (Matt Damon) was going Rambo through the streets of Baghdad, determined to uncover the truth as to why US intelligence was so incredibly wrong about Iraq harbouring weapons of mass destruction.

Much of that last sentance, I hope you realise, is complete hogwash; no rogue soldier singlehandedly unearthed the WMD scandal, and [...]

Remember Me (Review)

Something unexpected happened around the half hour mark of the ho-hum romantic drama Remember Me. No, the film didn’t start to improve. Don’t be silly.  Rather, I realised that leading man Robert Pattinson – or RPattz as his legions of adoring Twilight fans call him – was in the middle of doing something many critics said he wasn’t capable of. Yes, he was acting. And doing a pretty darn good job of it too.

However, aside [...]

Alice in Wonderland 3D (Review)

Alice in Wonderland is the result of Disney inviting director Tim Burton, a certified specialist in cinematic lunacy, and author Lewis Carroll, the pioneer of literary nonsense, to the same tea party. In other words, it’s the closest you’ll get to absolute madness without being locked in a room with padded walls. But being bonkers isn’t so bad. As Alice’s father remarks, “all the best people are.”

A Single Man (Review)

I may be going out on a limb here, but if the Coen brothes recent gem A Serious Man was a lot more, well, serious and the religious themes were replaced with homosexual ones, then the result might look something like A Single Man. Look closely and the two films share more than just a similar name; both are set in 1960s America and concern a College Professor trying to find clarity in their lives after they’ve each [...]

Shutter Island (Review)

Think of Shutter Island — the much anticipated mystery/thriller from movie master Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull, The Departed) — as the act of a master stage magician slightly past his prime.  His production values are top notch, and the performances of his stage hands make for great diversions, but his technique isn’t as refined as it used to be.  His sleight of hand isn’t so ‘slight’ anymore. We therefore catch him in the act of deception, and before [...]

From Paris With Love (Review)

Plots are for pussies and characters are for target practice.

That’s the mentality French writer/producer Luc Besson must swear by, if going by his back catalogue of supremely stupid, but undeniably exhilarating action movies such as The Transporter, Kiss of the Dragon and Taken. In other words, he specialises in making the kind of movies you don’t ever admit to enjoying.

Rip open From Paris With Love, the latest delivery from the Besson canon, [...]