There is no doubt that Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are one of the funniest odd couples to ever take a tour of Italy, or anywhere on earth for that matter. The Trip To Italy, Michael Winterbottom’s follow up to the pair’s gastronomic, quip-laden, and philosophically ruminative journey through Continue Reading
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Someone has to be The Keeper of Lost Causes (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Following a shootout that left his two partners respectively dead and paralyzed, chief detective Carl Mørck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) is assigned to the newly established Department Q, a department for old, terminated cases. The department consists only of himself and his new assistant Assad (Fares Fares). Although they Continue Reading
Movie review: Edge of Tomorrow
Redemption through repetition. While that vaguely Orwellian sentiment may sound like the sort of thing dreamt up by the propaganda mandarins of Kim Jong Un or the spin doctors of some backwoods cult, it is in fact the thematic heartbeat of Doug Liman’s impressively original time-twisting film Edge of Continue Reading
Marvellous massing of movie trailers: The Big Ask, Kill the Messenger, Calvary, The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, What We Do in the Shadows
For this instalment’s introduction, I adapted ever so slightly (or a lot) the words to a children’s song “Yes we have no bananas” … Yes we have no bananas We have no bananas today [But] we have trailers and trailers Trailers and trailers And all kinds of trailers, and Continue Reading
Movie review: The Fault in our Stars
“That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.” With these sombre if realistic words, Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort), witty, confident, winningly-articulate Augustus Waters, encapsulates the bold sentiment that runs unapologetically through both the book by John Green, and now it’s masterfully faithful adaptation by Josh Boone. The Continue Reading
Movie review: X-Men Days of Future Past
With the vast number of movies dipping their dystopian toes into the grim waters of the post-apocalyptic future, you could be forgiven for wanting to bury all your calendars, switch off any computing device with more memory than a toaster and hightailing it to a remote cabin in the Continue Reading
Once … twice .. thrice more through the all-new renovated Stargate
It’s renovation time at the Stargate my friends! But lest this conjures up images of Daniel Jackson, Colonel O’Neill and Apophis rolling up their sleeves and giving the Ancients-spawned wormhole-creating devices a good old sand back and re-paint, let me assure you that what is really afoot is a Continue Reading
Movie review: My Sweet Pepper Land
It could be said, in what is admittedly a gross simplification, that the world is divided into two diametrically opposed groups – aspiring idealists who believe they can make a real difference to the world in which they live, and cynical pragmatists who see no hope for society’s redemption, Continue Reading
Movie review: Chinese Puzzle (Casse-tête chinois)
For a movie that pivots, philosophically at least, around the fact that life is best lived in its moments of searing drama, a conceit dreamt up by the editor of Xavier (Romain Dupris), a successful novelist billed as the “next Proust”, Chinese Puzzle is largely a bubbly, whimsical New Continue Reading
Who doesn’t want to be part of The Grand Seduction?
SNAPSHOT In “The Grand Seduction,” the only hope for the tiny outport of Tickle Head is a new Petrochemical plant, but in order to qualify for the bid they need to prove they have a resident doctor. When fate sends Dr. Paul Lewis (Kitsch) their way, unemployed fisherman Murray Continue Reading