I was recommend this as a slight different take on the Superhero genre, it reminded me a little of the Bruce Willis offering Unbreakable. Although unlike Unbreakable I actually really enjoyed this offering.
The slightly sad thing about seeing Haunters was (…)
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Film Review: Haunters (2010)
Film Trailer: Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
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A six year old girl from the southern Delta searches for her long lost mother after her father falls ill and the world spins out of balance in the film (…)
Film Review: Bobby Fischer Against The World (2011)
Bobby Fischer was a genius and like a lot of geniuses this made him a mentalist..
This sums up what is a intriguing documentary Bobby Fischer Against The World. HBO examine the life and work of the of worlds greatest chess (…)
Film Review: Avengers Assemble (2012)
Let me start by saying “HOLY F***ING S**T”. Review done.
I am a Super hero fan, I loved Captain America and The Hulk when I was a young boy without actually being a massive comic book fan. My favourite has always (…)
Film Review: Marley (2012)
We all love a bit of Bob Marley don’t we? Summer time comes, put on some sunshine songs and chill out to some classic good time music. We think of Marley and the well known songs that have stuck in (…)
Film Trailer: Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
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Film Review: The Real Rocky (2011)
Who is The Real Rocky? This question was in dispute for many years but eventually in 2006 Charles Wepner a former heavyweight boxer from Bayonne in New Jersey was finally given the credit he deserved. He was known as a (…)
Film Review: Love (2011)
What started out as a short film idea a few years back gathered momentum and eventually formed a full length feature, the brain child of experimental rock group Angels and Airwaves lead vocalist Tom DeLonge. Love is set in space (…)
Sundance London Film Festival 2012
The Sundance festival arrives in London this week for the first time ever combining music and film in a compact four day festival, taking place at the O2 arena. The arrival of the festival feels a little overdue and the (…)
Film Review: Penumbra (2011)
There is something of a retro feel to Penumbra, a low budget Argentine horror that offers a few nods and winks toward some of more classic b-movie horror films. We have the damsel in distress heaving her chest gagged and (…)
Film Trailer: The Impossible (2012)
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A new non English trailer has appeared for the follow up feature from J.A.Bayona, director of The Orphanage. The Impossible revolves around a family on holiday who fall prey to a devastating (…)
Film Review: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
Encase you are unfamiliar with the story, Paradise Lost is a documentary film series directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the trials of three young teenage boys who are now known as the West Memphis Three. They were accused of (…)
Film Review: Contraband (2012)
The first thing that comes to mind when attempting to review this is; Does anyone actually care, because its a Marky Mark film and you basically know what you are getting when entering one of his films.
Contraband is a fairly (…)
Film Trailer: The Road (2011)
Director Yam Laranas brings us The Road, not to be confused with the post Apocalyptic drama starring Viggo Mortensen. Shot in the Philippines this is a good old fashioned ghost story that looks like something of a throwback to the J Horror (…)
Film Review: Ressurect Dead (2011)
Walk around the streets of some of the major cities in the United States and South America and you will see some strange handmade tiles embedded into the tarmac. Justin Duerr took notice of these plaques in Philadelphia, all bearing (…)
Film Trailer: Looper (2012)
After quite a number of teasers, pictures off set etc the full on trailer for Looper has arrived. Directed by Rian Johnson (who brought us the excellent Brick some years back) it is set in the year 2042 with Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) (…)
Film Review: The Corridor (2010)
This is our second film review of the week set in a cabin somewhere in the woods, although this time the story development is a little more traditional. The Corridor arrives from Canada shot on a shoe string budget, armed (…)
Film Review: The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Horror fan. Check. Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan. Check. ‘Cabin in the Woods’ with Joss Whedon. Double check. I was personally really excited to hear about this film as per reasons stated from the off. Especially since it has been (…)
Film Review: Headhunters (2011)
Two things popped into my head as the opening monologue began accompanied by light xylophone jazz; Herbie Hancock’s classic Head Hunters album, which was faint to say the least, and Oceans Eleven. Or Snatch. Lock Stock. Get Shorty. That sort (…)
Film Trailer: Breathing (2011)
Arriving in the UK on the 20th of this month is the much acclaimed Atmen (Breathing) written and directed by Karl Markovics in his first behind the camera. It tells the story of 19 year old Roman (Thomas Schubert) struggling (…)
Film Review: Le Havre (2011)
Director Aki Kaurismaki populates the small coastal town of Le Havre in the Normandy region with broad character strokes to seduce us with a sentimental heart warming tale, that lightly touches on the refugee problems facing Europe and those desperate (…)
Film Trailer: Gut (2011)
Written and directed by the mysteriously named Elias, the trailer for Gut starts out looking like some kind of mumblecore flick full of long pauses staring into the abyss of their own souls and all the rest of it. Whatever (…)
Film Review: The Hunger Games (2012)
Battle Royale. Battle Royale. Battle Royale! Battle Royale!! BATTLE ROYALE!!!! That was the thing that was screaming at me full pelt when I heard about The Hunger Games. ‘Battle Royale’ is one of my favourite ever films (*if you’ve never (…)
Film Review: The Silence (2010)
28 years after the rape and murder of an 11 year old girl in the German countryside, an identical murder is replicated at the exact same location bringing back horrific memories for both the mother and the now retired investigating (…)
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