Films

We all know the story, and we should since it’s been around for over 4000 years, but how about the film? Well, I must say that it takes the expression “suspension [more...]

File under “films with a very promising concept, but poor execution”. Based on the book of the same name, it tells the story of Beatrice “Tris” who [more...]

  Ambitious, grand, confusing. The latest offering from the Wachowski siblings is a grand movie encompassing six different stories which take place over a span of [more...]

Rush is a film which documents the famous rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. It’s 1976 and Formula one is just starting to become an international live TV [more...]

“Blue is the Warmest Colour” is the name by which this film has been released in English-speaking markets, and apart from the early part of the film, where Lea [more...]

Matthew McConaughey is Ron Woodroof, an electrician working in Dallas. One day he finds himself in hospital after a minor accident, and he is told that he has HIV, and has [more...]

The wolf is Leonardo DiCaprio, and Leonardo DiCaprio is the wolf. The Wolf of Wall Street tells the remarkable true story of Jordan Belfort, a man who built his empire on [more...]

You’ve all gotten them in your email. Some lucky folk (yes, me) have even gotten them in real snail mail – that scam that starts off telling you that you have won [more...]

I’ve never watched a film which has made me not-want to be an Astronaut, until now. Even though, at times, reality and physics is stretched, I found this to be an [more...]

Spike Jonze writes and directs a SciFi love story set in the not-too-distant future starring Emperor Commodus Joaquin Phoenix. Quirky, soul-searching, and [more...]

One of many films in this year’s Oscar contenders to be based on a true story, 12 Years a Slave tells the remarkable story of a terrible injustice. Solomon Northrup, [more...]

Tom Hanks is the captain of a very large container ship, the Maersk Alabama. The ship is hijacked by some pirates. The crew fends off the pirates for a while and (without [more...]

Based on the remarkable true story of Philomena Lee, an elderly Irish lady whose son was taken from her while she was a young girl working at a convent. Steve Coogan, who [more...]

I loved The Silver Linings Playbook, and The Fighter. I love all of these lead actors. While many films in the past have demonstrated that simply shoving a bunch of talented [more...]

I unfortunately did not write a review for the previous film, which despite its terrible camera work, was not terrible itself. In this, the second instalment of the trilogy [more...]