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  • Imagine a world where lying doesn’t exist and people say everything that is on their minds (hurtful or not). Now imagine that it’s the basis of a movie written, co-directed...

    Review: The Invention of Lying

    Imagine a world where lying doesn’t exist and people say everything that is on their minds (hurtful or not). Now imagine that it’s the basis of a movie written, co-directed...

  • Considering she has worked in Hollywood as an actress for over 30 years you’d think the directing bug would have hit Drew Barrymore sooner. You’d also think that after working...

    Review: Whip It

    Considering she has worked in Hollywood as an actress for over 30 years you’d think the directing bug would have hit Drew Barrymore sooner. You’d also think that after working...

  • This is not a review – this is a public service announcement. Surrogates is not a good movie. It’s dumb techno-babble that could have been written by a computer program....

    Review: Surrogates

    This is not a review – this is a public service announcement. Surrogates is not a good movie. It’s dumb techno-babble that could have been written by a computer program....

  • I had high expectations for Pandorum. It looked like a mix of Alien, Aliens and the 1997 Sam Neill bomb Event Horizon (which I quite enjoyed despite all its flaws)....

    Review: Pandorum

    I had high expectations for Pandorum. It looked like a mix of Alien, Aliens and the 1997 Sam Neill bomb Event Horizon (which I quite enjoyed despite all its flaws)....

  • A Norwegian Nazi zombie film – sounds crazy right? And it is! Directed by Tommy Wirkola (who became famous for his Kill Bill spoof Kill Buljo: The Movie), Dead Snow...

    Review: Dead Snow (Død snø)

    A Norwegian Nazi zombie film – sounds crazy right? And it is! Directed by Tommy Wirkola (who became famous for his Kill Bill spoof Kill Buljo: The Movie), Dead Snow...

  • Be warned that Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs is definitely a movie geared towards a young audience. It’s fun and colourful and the rugrats at the screening I attended...

    Review: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

    Be warned that Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs is definitely a movie geared towards a young audience. It’s fun and colourful and the rugrats at the screening I attended...

  • What’s wrong with enjoying a campy teenage horror flick these days? Jennifer’s Body is the bastard child of great ’80s fare like Evil Dead, Night of the Creeps and The...

    Review: Jennifer’s Body

    What’s wrong with enjoying a campy teenage horror flick these days? Jennifer’s Body is the bastard child of great ’80s fare like Evil Dead, Night of the Creeps and The...

  • About halfway through District 9 something clicked inside of me. I got a huge smile across my face, felt a slight tingle and I thought to myself, “This movie is...

    Review: District 9

    About halfway through District 9 something clicked inside of me. I got a huge smile across my face, felt a slight tingle and I thought to myself, “This movie is...

  • When I hear the name Julia Child I remember sitting in my Nana’s kitchen as a young boy watching her cook while Julia was on the little 13-inch television in...

    Review: Julie & Julia

    When I hear the name Julia Child I remember sitting in my Nana’s kitchen as a young boy watching her cook while Julia was on the little 13-inch television in...

  • (500) Days of Summer is a relentless anti-romcom for the hipster crowd that could also be called the saddest feel good movie of the year. You’re warned at the beginning...

    Review: (500) Days of Summer

    (500) Days of Summer is a relentless anti-romcom for the hipster crowd that could also be called the saddest feel good movie of the year. You’re warned at the beginning...

  • When I saw Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first film in the Potter series, I felt the same feeling of awe as when I saw The Wizard of...

    Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

    When I saw Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first film in the Potter series, I felt the same feeling of awe as when I saw The Wizard of...

  • It’d be easy to compare Moon to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. But when I left the theatre I had the 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky film Solaris on the brain....

    Review: Moon

    It’d be easy to compare Moon to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. But when I left the theatre I had the 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky film Solaris on the brain....

  • If you’re not a fan of the cartoon or previous film you probably won’t get much out of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. On the other hand, this is the...

    Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

    If you’re not a fan of the cartoon or previous film you probably won’t get much out of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. On the other hand, this is the...

  • All flash and no substance. That’s what the unnecessary remake of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is. Everything good about the 1974 version has been stripped out and...

    Review: The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

    All flash and no substance. That’s what the unnecessary remake of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is. Everything good about the 1974 version has been stripped out and...

  • Compared to the other nine films in the Pixar universe Up falls into my bottom three. Don’t get me wrong, it’s far from being a bad film (it’s the top...

    Review: Up

    Compared to the other nine films in the Pixar universe Up falls into my bottom three. Don’t get me wrong, it’s far from being a bad film (it’s the top...

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