Pixar have such an amazing ability to create captivating movies for everyone and this is my favourite of the bunch because of its wonderful art style and characterisation of superheroes. It presents a wonderful depiction of the modern world, displaying the fear of success and difference as well as being a smart family movie filled with all the tensions of modern Continue reading
MFR Rating: ★ ★
A Spanish language, parody of a Mexican soap opera with a little but of violence and a whole lot of absurdist humour thrown in may not be much to get those pulses racing to the cinema, but if we throw in a whole lot of Will Ferrell playing a Mexican cowboy then we might have a different story. Continue reading
MFR Rating: ★ ★
A war film with a social conscience such as Red Tails is always going to scream “award-worthy”, it’s just astonishing how such a remarkable story could be made to feel so insipid. Produced by George Lucas, unfortunately Red Tails has the worst of his fingerprints all over it, littered with unnecessarily prolonged dialogue and lacking any incision. Continue reading
MFR Rating: ★ ★
Here’s an awkwardly named, averagely executed pregnancy-com: several couples all expecting a child and experiencing all the emotional tribulations with their lives loosely intertwining as we celebrate the miracle of child birth and love through an ever so mildly humorous lens. A few smiles, Continue reading
I wanted to write a retrospective on a Bond movie for a while as the franchise has been a familiar friend from a young age. I remember recording it on tapes and watching it over and over again from the age of 6 or 7. It’s always been very hard to choose which movie is my favourite although admittedly at times the series has been very inconsistent. According to the producers, the second in the movie franchise, From Russia With Love, was the one they most hoped would recapture the magic of the book series as it seamlessly combines Cold War paranoia, humour and sex appeal. Continue reading
1) Justified (Seen up to Season 3 Episode 5)
Justified is one of my favourite new shows to come out of Fox. It’s gainful employment for Timothy Olyphant who was wonderful as the silently furious lawman in Deadwood, always one step away Continue reading
MFR Rating: ★ ★ ★
Jeff, Who Lives At Home is one of those movies which I struggle to quite understand how it got made and signed up to a studio. Not because it’s in anyway offensive and it’s certainly not bad… it’s just rather meandering. It’s a straight down the middle, little life-lesson indie comedy. Not many laughs, nothing that particularly stands Continue reading
