Rango
With Rango, his first completely animated feature film, co-writer / director Gore Verbinski returns to the anarchic spirit of his movie debut Mousehunt as he follows the existential quest of…
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show has always been something of a guilty pleasure dating back to my days as a teenager appearing in am-dram musical revues inspired by it because the performing rights…
Sucker Punch
It infuriates me that Sucker Punch has been universally demonised in the mainstream press for being the one thing that it clearly isn't and anyone with a modicum of intelligence…
Tamara Drewe
It seems that 2010 will be remembered as a boon year for movies derived from comic strips what with Kick-Ass, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and the various Marvel and…
The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Baader Meinhof Complex attempts to chronicle in its 150 minute running time the entire decade which saw the rise and fall of the Red Army Faction (RAF), Germany's most…
The Conspirator
As soon as I heard that Robert Redford was directing a film about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln I wanted to see it, more so than the long awaited Steven…
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
A great advantage of parenthood is having the wonderful opportunity to revisit the movies you loved when you were growing up and experience them afresh through your child’s eyes. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is one of those timeless…
Paul
There is little doubt that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost intended Paul to be an enjoyable romp through the collective memory of all the classic Science Fiction feature films of…
Me and Orson Welles
When I heard that teenage heartthrob Zac Efron was going to star in Richard Linklater's film based on the novel by Robert Kaplow about a fledgling actor who gets his lucky break playing Lucius in Orson Welles'…
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
I came to see Scott Pilgrim vs. the World on Blu-ray without prior knowledge of Bryan Lee O'Malley's 6 volume digest size graphic novel and whilst it appears that the 2nd…
North by Northwest
After his intensely personal psychological thriller Vertigo received mixed reviews due to its length and obsessive attention to detail Hitchcock set out to follow it with a fast paced, action packed, stylish, comic, chase picture…
Michael Clayton
Fresh from the success of furnishing the scripts for the extremely lucrative Bourne franchise, Tony Gilroy was given the rare opportunity to make his directorial debut with his own original screenplay…