Category Archives: Cinema Releases

Film review | Men in Black 3 – Smith, Jones & Brolin tackle icky aliens with quips and cool

Posted on 25 May 2012 by Jason Best

A decade on from their last screen outing, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones’s slickly dressed, Ray-Ban-wearing agents J and K are back for Men in Black 3. But after such a long absence, are they still up to the … Continue reading →

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Film review | What to Expect When You’re Expecting – Five couples on the bumpy road to parenthood

Posted on 24 May 2012 by Jason Best

After a gestation period far outdoing anything the animal kingdom can offer, Hollywood has turned a quarter-of-a-century-old self-help guide – Heidi Murkoff’s bestselling 1984 pregnancy manual What to Expect When You’re Expecting – into a slick comedy-drama that’s strictly by … Continue reading →

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Film review | Iron Sky – Lunatic fringe! Bonkers sci-fi satire sends Nazis to the moon

Posted on 23 May 2012 by Jason Best

Nazis on the moon! What could be more brilliantly bonkers than the lunatic premise of satirical sci-fi action comedy Iron Sky? Sadly, having kept movie geeks atwitter during the six years his film was in production, Finnish director Timo Vuorensola … Continue reading →

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Film review | She Monkeys – Female friendship falls victim to vaulting ambition

Posted on 19 May 2012 by Jason Best

The obscure sport of equestrian vaulting forms the backdrop to She Monkeys, an intriguing and unsettling exploration of female friendship, rivalry and burgeoning sexuality that marks the debut film of Swedish director Lisa Aschan. When motherless 15-year-old Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser) … Continue reading →

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Film review | The Raid – Action movie mayhem from unlikely Welsh-Indonesian duo

Posted on 18 May 2012 by Jason Best

An elite police team tries to nab a Jakarta drug lord in a dawn assault on a slum tenement that’s packed from top to bottom with thugs and killers in The Raid, an action movie so relentlessly exciting and brutal … Continue reading →

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Film review | 2 Days in New York – Cross-cultural confusion for Julie Delpy & Chris Rock

Posted on 18 May 2012 by Jason Best

If Woody Allen had been born a neurotic blonde Frenchwoman instead of a neurotic New Yorker, he might very well have come up with 2 Days in New York, Julie Delpy’s quirky follow-up as writer, director and star to her … Continue reading →

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Film review | Dark Shadows – Johnny Depp camps it up again in Tim Burton’s chaotic vampire romp

Posted on 11 May 2012 by Jason Best

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are back for their eighth screen collaboration with campy horror comedy Dark Shadows and the result is very much what you’d expect from their previous outings: good on look and atmosphere, poor on plot and … Continue reading →

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Film review | All in Good Time – Laughs and pathos as marital bliss eludes newlweds in Anglo-Asian comedy

Posted on 11 May 2012 by Jason Best

Two young newlyweds struggle to consummate their marriage amid family turmoil in the boisterous, bittersweet Anglo-Asian comedy All in Good Time. A screen version of East is East writer Ayub Khan-Din’s Olivier-award-winning play Rafta Rafta, the tale is an updating … Continue reading →

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Film review | How I Spent My Summer Vacation – Mel gets his mojo back in a scuzzy Mexican prison

Posted on 10 May 2012 by Jason Best

Disgraced star Mel Gibson makes a bid for box-office redemption by playing an out-an-out rogue in the scuzzy, darkly comic crime thriller How I Spent My Summer Vacation. First seen at the wheel of a hurtling getaway car, dressed in … Continue reading →

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Film review | Safe – Jason Statham cuts a swathe through New York with fists, guns and one-liners

Posted on 4 May 2012 by Jason Best

Trading blows with both the Russian Mafia and the Chinese Triads on the streets of New York, Jason Statham is at his bruising best in the action-packed, testosterone-fuelled slugfest Safe. He’s Luke Wright, an ex-cop-turned-cage-fighter who’s been a suicidal bum … Continue reading →

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