film review: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

December 27, 2013 // 3 Comments

Ben Stiller shows his serious side once again in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, based on a 1939 short story of the same name by John Thurber.

film review: Enough Said (2013)

October 20, 2013 // No Comment

Young love isn’t just for the young in Nicole Holofcener’s latest, Enough Said

film review: Upstream Colour (2013)

September 7, 2013 // No Comment

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.

film review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012)

November 17, 2012 // 1 Comment

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…

film review: Anna Karenina (2012)

September 10, 2012 // No Comment

For a flowery film there should be a flowery review. I know I’ve said I don’t do these but… when needs must. Lavish, luscious, sumptuous, opulent…

film review: Ek Tha Tiger (2012)

August 28, 2012 // No Comment

I have to admit, it was with a certain degree of trepidation that I toddled along to Bollywood blockbuster Ek Tha Tiger on Saturday night. I’d never seen one before but they’re all singing and dancing and that kind of thing aren’t they?

film review: This Means War (2012)

February 28, 2012 // No Comment

It’s Spy vs. Spy when Chris Pine and Tom Hardy find themselves fighting for the affections of Reese Witherspoon… This Means War. Apparently.

film review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – part 1

November 21, 2011 // 2 Comments

My unplanned and unexpected fall into all things Twilight continues. Somehow I found myself at a midnight screening of the latest installment, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – part 1. I still don’t know how it happened but it did. Of course, as I had mentioned in the post with clips and trailers of Breaking […]

film review: Burlesque (2010)

December 21, 2010 // No Comment

With snowmageddon going on here, it’s hard to think about going outside at all, let alone going out to go to the cinema. But then that’s just what I did today. Not to this though. I went to this weeks ago. Today I went to Catfish. But that’s not important right now. Wikipedia (today, 21st […]

film review: Up In The Air (2009)

January 16, 2010 // 4 Comments

Ok, I know this has only just released in Ireland so technically it’s 2010 here but it released in the US on 23rd Dec 2009, just in time for the Oscars. Up In The Air is based on a novel of the same name by Walter Kirn. I don’t know that novel but I am […]