Movies

LOOPER     Looper, written and directed by Ryan Johnson and starring acting wunderkind Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis as younger and older versions respectively of Joseph Simmons, a time-travelling mafia contract killer from 2044 who finds out that next his target is … himself,  looks like the sort of Continue Reading

  It will come as no surprise to many that we no longer want our fairytales served up with a   large side order of twee. Gone are the days, for the most part, of movie makers bringing out fairytales movies, whether live action or cartoon, that don’t feature some Continue Reading

  The need to belong is common to all people regardless of race, creed, colour or any of the other thousand and one permutations of humanity. And Wes Anderson, the delightfully idiosyncratic auteur who brought us Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, a keen observer of the human condition and student Continue Reading

  It is rare to find a movie that gloriously and unapologetically seeks to engender a feel good vibe so infectious you are tempted to dance, or at the very least sashay, like a member of a 60s female soul group, out of the theatre at the end of it, Continue Reading

  The first thing anyone needs walking into a fast-moving action-saturated movie like this is a suspension of belief so large and weighty you need a cherry picker to hoist it into the cinema seat next to you. Once that’s done, Total Recall, directed by Underworld’s Len Wiseman, and based Continue Reading

  *SOME SPOILERS BELOW* In this modern cynical age, it is a given that the world is rotten to the core, the structures of power and authority that govern it are hollowed out and corrupt, and those that work within it morally compromised beyond all redemption. It is a world Continue Reading

  I am not usually a subscriber to the adage that “they don’t make ’em like they used to” since I firmly believe that, while old movies/film/books are valuable parts of the pop culture canon, they are not the sum total of human creative expression, and are certainly not the Continue Reading

  Just when you have resigned yourself to the apparent fact that there is nothing new under the romantic comedy sun, along comes director Peter Templeton with a completely off-the-wall take on young love. And it all centres on testicular cancer. Yes, you read that right. Testicular cancer. If ever Continue Reading

  The Oz books by L. Frank Baum are a magical series that transport you to a land filled with wonder and creatures strange from our dreams. They are populated not just by the Wizard, the cowardly lion, the tin man, the scarecrow and Dorothy but by a plethora of Continue Reading