Shoot ‘Em Up is a wildly silly R-rated cartoon of a movie, tremendously fun and berserk and made with low-budget zeal and ingenuity. Playing like a Looney Tunes adventure on a few hits of PCP, this is pure comic-book-movie shenanigans, but instead of superheroes from another galaxy, the characters in this oddly eccentric actioner bounce…
This review contains no spoilers only basic plot elements. Logan is without a doubt the best Marvel movie that Marvel didn’t technically make. There are so many things they got right about Logan that I just don’t know where to begin. Hugh Jackman really did the character Logan justice this time around. It’s by far…
Currently streaming on Netflix and available on disc via The Criterion Collection, a piece of work that has come into full view after more than one screening. Shot on location all over Europe at a variety of obscenely photogenic locations by cinematographer Yorick Le Saux on 35mm film(!), Olivier Assayas’ dreamy film, which he wrote…
It’s a hard quality to have as a director, to make your films feel crazy and antic and wild, but at the same time still pay attention to mise-en-scene, performance, and technique. Rush’s 1970 effort Getting Straight is a wild beast, an anti-establishment picture made as one turbulent decade was ending and another socially questionable…
Gore Verbinski’s sumptuously mounted horror-thriller A Cure for Wellness plays like a cross between Shutter Island and The Cell but not nearly as great as those two pieces of work, with various props borrowed from the bunker set on TV’s Lost (I don’t ever want to be reminded of that show again). As I expected,…
Six Rounds takes place in the aftermath of the 2011 riots, the movie focuses on Stally (Adam J. Bernard) a former boxer who has hung up his gloves as he is roped back into a life of crime to save a friend. Most of the film is shot in black and white and rather than…
The Untouchables is a stone-cold classic. Brian De Palma’s bravura direction amounted to a clinic on how to make a supreme piece of studio funded entertainment, with showboating performances from a massive cast, all filtered through the elegant and stylized dialogue courtesy of David Mamet; his vulgar poetry really sets this one on fire. It’s…
A spectacular and epic showdown, The Great Wall is a fusion of bilingual cinema plunged into a fantasy world of CGI beauty. A new artistic collaboration between Hollywood and China with Zhang Yimou at the helm brings a new dawn of cinema and quite frankly I really, really enjoyed it. The storyline is simple. Matt…
Set in 1971, Kris is sentenced to two years in a rural Borstal and the film follows the day to day life of the boys of Borstal and their preparation for life on the outside. The movie revolves around Kris (Matthew Winters), a young lad who has been sentenced to serve his time at the…
The list of truly memorable hockey movies is short, but near the very top, and definitely sitting in the penalty box for excessive fisticuffs, is Goon, the raucous and extremely bloody 2011 comedy from director Michael Dowse (What If, Take Me Home Tonight) and writers Jay Baruchel (Man Seeking Woman) and Evan Goldberg (Pineapple Express,…
It’s that time of year again where I pack my belongings and head to London for the 2017 EE BAFTA awards. It was no surprise to me when La La Land picked up the best film award. For popularity and sheer quality alone that award was predicted months in advance. There were some incredible movies on…
It’s not usually the type of movie I’d see at the cinema but as I was down London yesterday after the BAFTA’s ceremony the only film that was showing at the time was Lion and after all the talk and hype the film has been getting, in addition to Dev Patel picking up a supporting…
Sobering. Troubling. Shattering. The 2010 documentary Nostalgia for the Light hits with the blunt emotional force of a freight train, while also providing a glimpse into the cosmos that has rarely been seen. This revelatory and consummately constructed 90 minute film delves into one of the world’s great genocidal atrocities, and is startlingly unique in…
AMC’s THE WALKING DEAD® Collector’s Model is the ultimate collection for the TV series’ fans and collectors alike, a perfect display of all of your favourite chracters in one place. These models approved by AMC are cast in resin and metal and are hand painted with incredible detail, proportioned to a 1:27th scale (Mini Me’s…
Will Arnett plays our Lego caped crusader with his classic dry wit that made him such a highlight of The LEGO Movie and he’s back again at his best in this hilarious movie that never takes itself too seriously. The film reminede me of a Scary Movie style spoof in LEGO form. There are so…
I’m picky when it comes to fantasy movies. Very picky. I’m not a fan of LOTR or any of its seemingly endless derivatives. But while not perfect, I’ve always had a HUGE soft spot for Rob Bowman’s Reign of Fire, which sports a genre-popping screenplay by Gregg Chabot, Kevin Peterka, and Matthew Greenberg that had…
