If you have an aversion to either boobs, bums or blood, then Piranha 3D is not for you. This is a movie that treats the viewer to a feast of all these. Continuously. For a whole 88 minutes.
Film Reviews
Inception: brilliant or baffling?
Posted on 17 August 2010
For all the hype surrounding Christopher Nolan’s latest film, Inception, I found myself leaving the cinema feeling somewhat bemused. In an attempt to appear a little less clueless, I inevitably began eavesdropping on snippets of conversation from other audience members – was their mission successful? Are we all living in a dream? And, most importantly, is it still ok to fancy Leonardo DiCaprio whilst he’s sporting that strange goatee?
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Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) gives Serge Gainsbourg a heroic life
Posted on 16 August 2010
I went into Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) knowing next to nothing about the man and came out knowing just a little more, but having fallen utterly in love with Serge and also with Paris and its old school sense of celebrity, which no longer exists.
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Waking up to a nightmare in Nazi Dawn
Posted on 12 August 2010
If you’ve ever seen Love Boat and wondered what it would be like if you swapped harmless romance for Nazis, ghosts and special ops marines, then Nazi Dawn might just be your ideal film.
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The Blind Side DVD Review
Posted on 11 August 2010
The Blind Side is a film that will make you cry, make you chuckle and will make you cringe.
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Largo Winch review
Posted on 09 August 2010
The comic book origins of Largo Winch are never far from the surface in this 2008 French film adaptation directed by Jérôme Salle of the best selling series of Belgian graphic novels.
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New British gangster film Baseline bursts out of the East End
Posted on 03 August 2010
It’s not often that you watch a gangster movie that actually looks like it might have been made by members of the criminal underground. Baseline, a new, low-budget British film, has that feel. Menace and threat simply ooze from the screen. The actors are believably authentic – a benefit of the film makers not being able afford big names for all the parts.
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Russell Brand rocks his way across the Atlantic
Posted on 25 June 2010
For his new film Get Him to the Greek Russell Brand is once more starring as Aldous Snow, the rock star first seen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
The new movie isn’t exactly a sequel, but is being sold as a spin-off from Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Jonah Hill (above left) plays Aaron Green, a young music intern at a record company, whose job it is to go to London and escort the great rock legend Aldous Snow to Los Angeles where he is due to start his world tour.
The title might not make much sense in the UK, but it isn’t so strange when you know that ‘the Greek’ refers to a famous Greek Theater in LA where Aldous is to perform, rather than a person hailing from the cradle of European civilisation.
Getting someone on a plane might not sound like hard work, but rock n’ rollers are like naughty puppies that rarely do what they’re told.
Aldous Snow has one thing on his mind: fun. So, his young minder has a job on his hands.
The film, produced by Judd Apatow, has had good reviews. The critics have referred to its rowdy, rude, and ridiculous humour. Brand even manages to bring a little sorrow to his character’s OTT exuberance.
