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Into the Blue - Film Review

April 7th, 2010 by Robert

into the blue reviewWhen they’re not lounging vacuously around water features and generally looking buff, our four intrepid heroes are narrowly escaping sinister Bahamanian gangsters through plot holes big enough to sink a pirate ship. Read the rest of this entry »

Lars and the Real Girl - Film Review

April 7th, 2010 by Robert

lars real girl review“Man proposes to sex doll”. You can just see the headline tucked away in the corner of the World section of your local newspaper - the obligatory quirky news item from some rural corner of the USA. Only in America. The amazing thing about Craig Gillespie’s Lars and the Real Girl is that the love affair it presents between a man and an inanimate object almost starts to make sense. Read the rest of this entry »

The Proposition - Film Review

April 7th, 2010 by Robert

proposition review Beautifully shot but brutal. I’m not sure Nick Cave’s screenplay successfully tells the story he wanted it to - many of the characters’ actions and motivations seem unfathomable, and ultimately you wonder what the point is supposed to be. Read the rest of this entry »

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Film Review

April 7th, 2010 by Robert

indiana jones kingdom crystal skull reviewStar Wars, Indiana Jones… are there any more great films produced by George Lucas in the last 30 years that he can now cynically revive with so-called sequels designed solely to cash in the nostalgia of Generation X-ers? Phew, looks like he’s done the lot, unless of course he wants to release a CGI-augmented version of American GigoloRead the rest of this entry »

Eastern Promises - Film Review

April 6th, 2010 by Robert

eastern promises reviewDavid Cronenberg poses some interesting questions on the nature of evil in his latest thriller. Eastern Promises is a brooding, atmospheric snapshot of a murky London underworld. Apart from focusing on a crime subculture hitherto untreated by films, it presents a mesmerising study of what happens when the world we know brushes up against what lies beneath. Read the rest of this entry »

Hot Fuzz - Film Review

April 6th, 2010 by Robert

hot fuzz reviewThis film has everything going for it except for one small detail: it just didn’t make me laugh that much. I mean, I enjoyed it, I appreciate what they were trying to do, and it really was very well executed - it just wasn’t all that funny! Read the rest of this entry »

The Good Thief - Film Review

April 6th, 2010 by Robert

good thief reviewA beautifully shot film in a gorgeous location, this could have been a really great film but for a bit of a sloppy plot and a pretty sub-standard supporting cast. Nolte is very good as the rough-diamond heroin-junkie ex(?)-thief, and his character is nicely developed, but the heist plot is rather unconvincing.