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Green Zone

Seen by many as a gap-filler until Greengrass and Damon make Bourne 4, this Iraq-set action-thriller lives up to expectations of being a clever, high-adrenaline picture that will only increase your hunger for Jason Bourne’s next outing. However, Green Zone doesn’t merely suffice as an in-between flick, it breaks through that ‘gap-filler’ label to stand [...]

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland is a good movie; and that’s the problem – it was only good, not great. It’s mostly entertaining, but it’s not the great masterpiece that I (and many others) was hoping for. Once the movie finished I couldn’t help but feel a little let down. As you’ve probably heard, the visuals in [...]

The Wolfman

There are many bad things about The Wolfman. Performances range from dry to laughable, the music simply doesn’t fit with the overall tone of the film and the script is a mess to say the least. After reading some reviews on IMDB I just don’t understand how anybody could take this movie seriously.

Food, Inc.

There have been many documentaries to hit the scene in the past few years that have impacted its audiences in one way or another. Some of become a cultural phenomenon and have hit home especially because it’s been things we have experienced either first handed or we ourselves deem them “important.” Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for [...]

Avatar

Like Peter Jackson and George Lucas, James Cameron raises the level of technical achievement in film making in every movie he makes, and Avatar is no exception. We have set before us a digital masterpiece of beauty and spectacle, where the technology has once again surprised us, but the beauty and imagination of the artists [...]

The Time Traveller's Wife

Based on the trailers, I was dreading seeing this film, as it looked like a shallow dull romantic movie with a *ahem* ‘clever’ twist in the form of the time traveller. However, I was very pleased to find, within ten minutes of the film starting, that it was clear that I was wrong; it was a complex movie, looking at various problems/blessings that the main character’s condition meant.