Category Archives: Reviews

Film review | Avengers Assemble – Joss Whedon adds Heh Heh Heh to Wham Blam Splat!

Posted on 25 April 2012 by Jason Best

Geeky fanboys will be in heaven. After their recent solo outings, Marvel comic-book heroes Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor and Captain America finally get to do cool things as a team in Avengers Assemble. Pulled together by Samuel L Jackson’s … Continue reading →

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Film review | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen – Emily Blunt reels in Ewan McGregor. You’ll be hooked too

Posted on 20 April 2012 by Jason Best

If you’ve a soft spot for romantic comedies you’ll fall hook, line and sinker for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, a smartly written, hugely entertaining rom-com that proves the ideal showcase for Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt’s charm and chemistry. … Continue reading →

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Film review | Lockout – Quick with his quips & his fists: Guy Pearce’s Snow is as cool as his name

Posted on 20 April 2012 by Jason Best

Guy Pearce’s cynical anti-hero Snow doesn’t sport a black eye-patch in sci-fi action thriller Lockout but otherwise he’s a dead ringer for Kurt Russell’s Snake Plissken. The resemblance isn’t a surprise: producer Luc Besson has pretty much taken the plot … Continue reading →

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Film review | Mozart’s Sister – Stepping out from Wolfgang’s shadow

Posted on 14 April 2012 by Jason Best

Fleetingly glimpsed in accounts of Mozart’s life, little Wolfgang’s elder sister Nannerl takes centre stage in Mozart’s Sister, French director René Féret’s stylish speculative drama, which invites us to consider whether she might have proved her brother’s equal as musician … Continue reading →

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Film review | Battleship – Taylor Kitsch & Rihanna get that sinking feeling

Posted on 13 April 2012 by Jason Best

If you reckoned the Transformers movies were dumb, catch a load of Battleship, an alien invasion movie whose stupefying idiocy will leave you shell-shocked. For Hollywood the notion of turning a set of shape-changing toys into a blockbuster film franchise … Continue reading →

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Film review | This Must Be the Place – Sean Penn’s retired Goth rocker goes on a Nazi-hunting road trip

Posted on 5 April 2012 by Jason Best

Funnier on screen than he’s been in any part since permanently stoned surfer dude Jeff Spicoli in 1982’s Fast Times at Ridegmont High, Sean Penn is terrific in the lead role of Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s distinctly offbeat This Must … Continue reading →

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Film review | Headhunters – Nail-biting Nesbø thriller that’s so good you won’t notice the subtitles. Honest!

Posted on 5 April 2012 by Jason Best

From The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to The Killing, when it comes to crime the Scandinavians currently have the rest of the world running scared. Slick and suspenseful thriller Headhunters, based on the book by best-selling Norwegian novelist Jo … Continue reading →

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Film review | Mirror Mirror – Julia Roberts & Lily Collins find out who’s fairest in snazzy fairytale flick

Posted on 31 March 2012 by Jason Best

‘Who’s the fairest of them all,’ is a cruel question to pose to a Hollywood beauty in her forties facing competition from ever-younger starlets, but Julia Roberts gamely takes it on the chin in Mirror Mirror, a snazzy tongue-in-cheek reinvention … Continue reading →

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Film review | Wrath of the Titans – Clashing swords and accents in an epically crass adventure

Posted on 30 March 2012 by Jason Best

Back in action as strapping demigod Perseus in Wrath of the Titans, the inevitable sequel to 2010’s inane Clash of the Titans remake, Sam Worthington again struggles to convince us that he’s a bona fide star. He wields his hero’s … Continue reading →

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Film review | Streetdance 2 – The dance moves get spicy when Hip-hop meets Salsa in a sizzling sequel

Posted on 30 March 2012 by Jason Best

Take a boy-girl pair of cute dancers from wildly different disciplines, hook them up for an imminent, all-important competition and watch their romantic chemistry ignite. Yes, the formula is very much the same in Streetdance 2, the sequel to 2010’s … Continue reading →

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