Tag Archives: Zombieland

Film review | 30 Minutes or Less – Jesse Eisenberg’s pizza delivery guy has a perilous deadline to meet

Posted on 17 September 2011 by Jason Best

Rude, raucous and very silly, action comedy 30 Minutes or Less stars Jesse Eisenberg as pot-smoking slacker Nick, a small-town pizza delivery guy who falls foul of a pair of would-be criminal masterminds. Half-smart blowhard Dwayne (Danny McBride) and his … Continue reading →

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Film review | Stake Land – Indie filmmakers infuse the vampire genre with fresh blood

Posted on 18 June 2011 by Jason Best

In a bleak near future America that has been overrun by vampires, a vampire hunter (Nick Damici) takes a teenage orphan (Connor Paolo) under his wing and teaches him the rules of survival in terrific indie horror thriller Stake Land. … Continue reading →

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Easy A – Emma Stone gets top marks in smart high-school comedy

Posted on 7 March 2011 by Jason Best

Emma Stone, cast as Peter Parker’s gf in the upcoming Spider-Man film and a sparky presence in Superbad and Zombieland, gets her best role to date in Easy A, a smart high-school comedy that recalls Clueless and 10 Things I … Continue reading →

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Posted on 8 April 2010 by admin

2012 Impending doom… A series of cataclysmic events plunge the world into chaos and threaten to destroy life on Earth in Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic epic. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you … Continue reading →

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Posted on 1 April 2010 by admin

The Twilight Saga: New Moon Long in the tooth… When vampire Edward turns his back on Bella, the heartbroken teenager finds comfort in her deepening friendship with werewolf Jacob. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | The Road – A glimmer of hope amid the post-apocalyptic gloom

Posted on 8 January 2010 by Jason Best

The big freeze, global warming, economic meltdown, terror plots: with so many calamities currently besetting us, it’s no wonder that the cinema is cashing in on the prevailing mood that apocalypse is just around the corner. In the last few … Continue reading →

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The Best Movies of 2009

Posted on 30 December 2009 by Jason Best

Vampires, aliens and wizards fought it out at the box office in 2009, but the year at the cinema wasn’t just about blockbusters. Plenty of fine movies reached the screens with much less hype and from places other than Hollywood. … Continue reading →

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Big Screen – this week’s top ten at the cinema…

Posted on 29 October 2009 by admin

Up High flyers… A grumpy OAP and a lively eight-year-old boy become unlikely adventurers in this uplifting Disney Pixar animation If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Zombieland – Splatterfest spoof gets laughs from the living dead

Posted on 7 October 2009 by Jason Best

If you thought Shaun of the Dead delivered the last word in Zombie horror-comedy, new movie Zombieland shows that you can still get fresh laughs from the festering carcasses of the living dead. Where Shaun had Simon Pegg’s directionless shop … Continue reading →

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