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A while back I watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, based on Hunter S. Thompson‘s book. I was impressed, I won’t deny it.  It was a brilliant movie that gave me the opportunity to laugh, to cringe, to react at something other than pretty faces. Considering it was a movie with Johnny Depp, you would expect that, but he was unrecognizable. The Rum Diary is based on yet another Hunter S. Thompson book, this time a less trippy experience, detailing the changes that occur in the way our lead character, played by Johnny Depp, sees the world around him.  When it first came on in the cinema, I decided I had to see it. It had the aforementioned Johnny Depp, it was based on a Hunter S. Thompson novel, it was bound to be good. I had this review on a shelf for a while, wondering what did I actually think of the movie? Was it good? Was it not? I actually went to watch it again in a more appropriate environment for this type of movie, a nice old fashioned cinema where there were maybe five more people in the theatre. The verdict came in, I did in fact like [...]

The latest Marvel film has been expected for quite a long time, by some with aprehension, by others with excitement. I was part of the aprehensive bunch. I am not as familiar with Captain America as I am with other Marvel superheroes, but I have to say the movie painted quite a clear picture of who he is and what he does. Let’s see what it was about. Young Steve Rogers, a skinny boy/man wants nothing more than to join the army, battle the evil forces and keep the world safe. Alas his sickly nature and lack of physical atributes make him a very unlikely candidate for the US army. After being rejected for the nth time, he decides to give it another go, even though his best friend Bucky warns him that he is not going to find whatever he’s looking for in the military. Hearing his passionate speech about freedom and his desire to serve since he is not willing to do any less than those around him, a misterious scientist recruits him for a secret project that will ultimately turn him into Captain America. The movie, though dramatic and prone to pulling our heart strings on a [...]

A movie that split people up between haters and adorers, Super 8 has managed to catch my eye and I must say I am impressed. The movie, which benefits from the involvement of J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg, is a combination between a tale of growing up fast and staying a child forever, spiced up with alien abductions and family feuds. Perhaps I got the wrong end of the stick, but when I left the theater I felt like I watched a modern/sci-fi/adventure version of Romeo and Juliet and that wasn’t bad at all. A quick synopsis of the film – you have a bunch of kids trying to make a movie, one of them – Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney)- recently lost his mother in a horrific accident and is head over heels for the girl – Alice Dainard (Elle Fanning)- whose father, Louis (Ron Eldard) is accused of being at fault for said accident(by the boy’s dad, Jackson Lamb, played by Kyle Chandler). It’s misplaced blame, but when you grieve it’s never easy. In order to make the film – a zombie flick that Charles (Ryley Grifftihs) plans to send to a movie competition – they need to keep [...]

Took me long enough to get to writing this, perhaps because like most fans I’ve spend my time crying into my pillow that the adventure is over. Ten years out of all our lives were given a more worthy ending than I had expected. I was worried that they won’t do the final book justice and that we’ll have too many special effects, what with the “magic”of 3D and forget the actual story. It wasn’t the case, each effect perfectly complemented the storyline, making it quite possibly one of the best movies of the franchise and most definitely one of the best films I’ve seen recently. I am not sure the rest of this review might contain spoilers, since most people have read that “big encyclopedia of spoilers”we like to call the book series by J.K.Rowling. However, for those that didn’t read it, SPOILERS might follow. The film picked up where the first part left of, the search for the Hocruxes in a last, desperate, attempt to destroy Voldemort’s link to the mortal plane. Hogwarts and the magical world had been turned into a land of fear and prejudice, all with Voldemort’s blessing, but our heroic trio hasn’t given up [...]

By Sally Brown When I heard that they were making a film of one of my favourite childhood TV shows I was really excited however, after watching the first half hour, my excitement was short lived. To those who have never seen the TV show it would be an ok action movie with some good stunts and a few explosions. To those of us old enough to remember the TV show it is a bit disappointing to say the least. All the fun simply dies away after a few jokes, mainly from Copely as Murdoch. The film stars Liam Neeson as Hannibal, Bradley Cooper as Face, Sharlto Copely as Murdoch and Quinton Jackson as BA Baracus.  The actors try to stay true to the original characters however they just fail to hit the mark. The A Team starts with how the four men came together to be an elite army team who after several missions are stationed in a special forces unit stationed in Iraq. Hannibal is contacted by a CIA agent who states that Iraqi’s possess US treasury plates that could be used to make US dollars. The CIA agent wants the A Team to steal the plates and the cash [...]

I had been wanting to see this film for a while now, but with it’s limited release it proved a difficult task. I finally got around to it and I wasn’t disappointed. Robert Redford’s The Conspirator presents a page in the history of the United States that few are aware it even existed. The story of Mary Surrat, accused of having conspired alongside a group of men – one of them her son John – to assassinate president Lincoln. She went on to become the first woman in the US history to be executed through hanging. A barely recognizable(to me) Robin Wright portrays Mary Surrat, the woman accused of having participated in the conspiracy, but the question regarding her innocence or guilt is never answered. Perhaps because history never answered it. She does an amazing job at bringing Mary to life, a woman so hellbent on protecting her somewhat cowardly son that she renounces her own life for it. James McAvoy, who portrays Frederick Aiken, Mary’s lawyer does as good of a job as ever. His character has so much intensity you start feeling his despair when he faces the wall of vengeance everyone else has erected, banning a fair [...]