Alice in Wonderland

Oddly soulless, Alice in Wonderland is an uneven piece of wacky film-making. It should be up there with Lord of the Rings. Instead it's hanging around with Prince Caspian.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is gripping and unsettling stuff. A cold blast of Scandinavian class.

Shutter Island

With striking shots & reverberating visuals, Shutter Island is a perfectly predictable B-movie. It's just a shame it lasts two and a half hours.

Green Zone

Greengrass is great at asking accurate questions, but Green Zone is better at just blowing stuff up.

From Paris With Love

From Paris with Love is perfect popcorn fodder - dumb, diverting and surprisingly not dreadful.

The Crazies

Nowt special but The Crazies gives you good scares for your money. And a lot of Timothy Olyphant. He's good for your money too

Capitalism: A Love Story

A rousing call to arms, Capitalism: A Love Story shows Moore is still as polemic & provocative as ever

Solomon Kane

Solomon Kane is small in scale but large in ambition; what it lacks in originality it makes up for with bucket-loads of blood.

The Lovely Bones

With its syrupy score and saccharine script, The Lovely Bones is horribly bloated. It's like having a fat kid sit on your face for two and a half hours.

Crazy Heart

With a stellar, sincere starring role, Crazy Heart is a gentle and moving piece. Proof once and for all that Jeff Bridges makes anything brilliant. Even Country and Western music.

A Single Man

A Single Man matches its polished surface with a sorrowful and deep undercurrent. Simply gorgeous cinema.

http://www.i-flicks.net/components/com_gk2_photoslide/images/thumbm/864731alice_top.jpg http://www.i-flicks.net/components/com_gk2_photoslide/images/thumbm/928959dragon_top.jpg http://www.i-flicks.net/components/com_gk2_photoslide/images/thumbm/277378shutter_island.jpg http://www.i-flicks.net/components/com_gk2_photoslide/images/thumbm/872760green_zone_top.jpg http://www.i-flicks.net/components/com_gk2_photoslide/images/thumbm/191304Paris_top.jpg http://www.i-flicks.net/components/com_gk2_photoslide/images/thumbm/100451crazies_top.jpg http://www.i-flicks.net/components/com_gk2_photoslide/images/thumbm/563279capitalism_top.jpg http://www.i-flicks.net/components/com_gk2_photoslide/images/thumbm/944359solomon_kane_top.jpg http://www.i-flicks.net/components/com_gk2_photoslide/images/thumbm/860125Lovely_Bones_top_2.jpg http://www.i-flicks.net/components/com_gk2_photoslide/images/thumbm/473626crazy_heart_top.jpg http://www.i-flicks.net/components/com_gk2_photoslide/images/thumbm/376331Single_Man_top.jpg

Have Your Say

Were you disappointed by Tim Burton's Alice?
 

Twitter

One long and tiring week after my birthday, I have arrived at one major decision: I need more Stevie Wonder on my iPod.
With striking shots & reverberating visuals, Shutter Island is a perfectly predictable B-movie. It just lasts over 2 hours. http://3.ly/bB5r
"It's the 1st dress in Woolwich & New Hampstead with a triple pleated collar". How do they ever cop off with such bad flirting? #BrightStar
You know when you come home & you find a gloriously sticky donut waiting for you? For those don't, I assure you: it's fricking AWESOME.
RT @DCPlod In Alice, they keep calling the monster a Jabberwocky, but it's a Jabberwock. Jabberwocky's the name of the damn poem - seconded!
Greengrass is great at asking accurate questions, but Green Zone is better at just blowing stuff up http://3.ly/1RPw
Home
Shutter Island Print E-mail
Written by Ivan Radford   
Friday, 12 March 2010 16:57
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow
Certificate: 15

You know those films where you can guess the ending from the trailer? Based on Dennis Lehane's novel, Shutter Island sees Federal Marshall Edward Daniels (DiCaprio) stranded by hurricane in a mental asylum for the criminally insane. He and his partner, Chuck (Ruffalo), are there to find a patient who disappeared from her cell overnight. Can you say "B-Movie horror"? Martin Scorsese can. He just can't say it very well.



Read more...
 
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Print E-mail
Written by Ivan Radford   
Friday, 12 March 2010 14:33
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Sven-Bertil Taube
Certificate: 18
Trailer

Thanks to Henning Mankell and Let the Right One In, Sweden is getting a reputation for its nasty sociopathic murders. What with its chequered nationalist past and wintry snow-filled regions, it seems more a fascinating tableau of literary horrors than a country. And now the first of the late Stieg Larsson's Milennium trilogy has reached our shores. And it's worked the same disturbing magic. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a chilling plunge into Sweden's brutal climate.

Read more...
 
Green Zone Print E-mail
Written by Ivan Radford   
Friday, 12 March 2010 11:19
Director: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Amy Ryan, Brendan Gleeson, Greg Kinnear
Certificate: 15

"I came here to find weapons and save lives". "It's a little more complicated than that." "Not for me!" Roy Miller (Damon) is an American soldier with a difference. Not only does he bear an uncanny resemblance to Jason Bourne and Hollywood actor Matt Damon, he also has a big thing for the truth. Why does his Iraq team keep failing to find WMDs in every location they raid?



Read more...
 
Twilight: Eclipse Trailer Online! Print E-mail
Written by Ivan Radford   
Thursday, 11 March 2010 14:27

"I'm going to fight for you until your heart stops beating..."


Yes, that love triangle is still triangulating its way round our troubled teens' angsty fang-ridden lives. But the most shocking thing about the teaser trailer for Twilight's next instalment? Taylor Lautner kept his top on for a whole 10 seconds. 

 

 
Christopher Nolan Chats about Superman Print E-mail
Written by Ivan Radford   
Thursday, 11 March 2010 13:14

Thanks to the LA Times, Christopher Nolan has been doing the rare thing he never does: talking about his ideas in public.


Naturally, these aren't plot-spoiling detail-heavy announcements we're dealing with, but anything more substantial than a denial from Nolan is always big news. It's been a few weeks since he stepped in as mentor for the next Man of Steel movie, and he's now willing to talk about how it all came about. Apparently we can thank David Goyer:


“He basically told me, ‘I have this thought about how you would approach Superman'... I immediately got it, loved it and thought: that is a way of approaching the story I’ve never seen before that makes it incredibly exciting."


A fresh take on that same old stale superhero icon? Singer's retro-tribute was great stuff (Brandon Routh was wonderful too), but if a new perspective is possible at all, Nolan is the guy to manage it: "It’s very exciting, we have a fantastic story. And we feel we can do it right. We know the milieu, if you will, we know the genre and how to get it done right.” Hell yes, they do. They even have a taste for big name actors in supporting roles, a la Richard Donner's original.


It's still a long way off - say, 2012 - but for now, Christopher is content to carry on with getting Inception out there in cinemas. Then, it's the next Batman film, which his brother Jonathan is feverishly working away on at the moment. “He’s struggling to put it together into the epic story that you want it to be,” Nolan comments, then adding a key piece of information: "What makes the third film a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story. And in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the stor


So is this the last outing for the Caped Crusader? It certainly seems so - under Nolan at least. It's a rather good sign; you can imagine an elegant and creatively satisfying conclusion from Nolan, before the franchise runs the risk of returning to the Joel Schumacher days of blockbusting Bat Nipples and Arnold Schwarzenegger. On that front, he admits one thing: “[The villain] won’t be Mr. Freeze.”


For more cryptic comments from Christopher Nolan, check out the full write-up in the LA Times. It's a rather good read.

 
New Robin Hood Trailer Online Print E-mail
Written by Ivan Radford   
Thursday, 11 March 2010 11:57

Do you know the story of Robin Hood? Apparently some people don't, which is great for Ridley Scott, because he gets to explain the complicated concept with this new trailer: outlaw rebels against a corrupt royal. Mostly using arrows. And occasionally horses.


Although that's a tad unfair on Ridley's Robin Hood, because Brian Helgeland's script has come up with a few new touches: a dead father, whose noble cause demands to be avenged by his son; a more robust warrior for the fair Maid Marion; and Russell Crowe as our lead hero.


More reassuring than the original glimpse of Ridley's revamp of Robin, this adventure is beginning to look a lot less like Gladiator now. Sprinkle in a bit of Mark Strong as Prince John's evil enforcer and Oscar Isaac as the mean Monarch-in-waiting, and it's all shaping up quite nicely.


The only thing this is missing? More Matthew MacFayden please. Robin Hood is unleashed on Friday 14th May. Head over to Yahoo! for the new trailer, or read on for the full video.

Read more...
 
Wall Street 2 Delayed to September Print E-mail
Written by Ivan Radford   
Thursday, 11 March 2010 10:47

With Michael Douglas back on board for his Wall Street sequel, Oliver Stone was all set to prove to the world that Money Never Sleeps. Now it turns out that money does sleep. For another four months. Yes, Fox have decided to hold the film's release back until September, for mostly undisclosed reasons.


Some insiders are saying that the decision comes with the prospect of a Cannes invite for the festival. Success there in May would lead to a good launch platform come autumn - although they had a pretty good launch platform in place after stars Shia LaBeouf and Carey Mulligan had done the rounds with Douglas and Josh Brolin.


All the studio have officially said is that the film is more suited to a September release, away from the summer blockbusters. Either way, it's been 23 years since Gordon Gekko's last outing. Another few months won't hurt him or his relevance. After all, the world's finances are hardly going to be sorted out by then.

 
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >>

Page 1 of 68