Hot on the heels (ish) of Alex Gibney’s recent Wikileaks documentary, The Fifth Estate is a dramatic re-telling of the genesis of famed whistleblower site, Wikileaks, and its Australian founder Julian Assange’s fall from grace. Unfortunately when I say dramatic, I mean not.
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Denis Villeneuve, director of the Oscar nominated Incendies makes his English-language (and Hollywood) debut with Prisoners, starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal.
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Woody Allen. One of the most well-known, prolific directors working today. And somehow I’ve only seen one of his films. As a result, I didn’t know what to expect of his new one, Blue Jasmine
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Ron Howard’s one of those directors that I’ve never really cared that much about. He makes good films, sure, but they’re not ones I’d be getting passionate about.
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I thought I’d take a while before I reviewed Upstream Colour. It’s one that deserves a bit of time before you decide exactly what you want to make of it.
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From Up on Poppy Hill is the latest from Japan’s answer to Walt Disney Studios, Studio Ghibli, and the second from Gorō Miyazaki, eldest son of the grand master of Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki.
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If you’ve read my Cloud Atlas clips and trailers post, you’ll already know why I had high hopes for this. Well, not high hopes exactly, but why I was eagerly anticipting its release…
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I hadn’t thought that a dramedy about a elderly widower who joins a choir to honour the memory of his recently deceased wife would really be my kind of thing… but I will freely admit, I was wrong.
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It’s taken 4 years and 5 films but you know what? They finally made a Twilight film that’s genuinely decent. Yes that’s right folks…
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I have to admit, when I first watched the trailer for The Perks of Being a Wallflower I was fairly non-plussed. Coming-of-age dramas aren’t really my thing.
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