Today's Viewing & Reviews: The Crazies + Whip It + [●REC]2

Whip It For a concept which sounds shaky at best, Whip It garnered good word of mouth when it opened in the US last year, with Kevin Smith...

Today's Viewing & Review: The Bad Lieutenant - Port Of Call: New Orleans

The Bad Lieutenant – Port Of Call: New Orleans This isn’t a sequel and it isn’t a remake but it’s thematically similar to Abel Ferrara’s 199...

Today's Viewing & Review: A Nightmare On Elm Street

Still trying to find the time to catch up with the reviews. Stick with me.

Today's Viewing & Review: Life During Wartime

Life During Wartime I’m not exactly sure what this film is. Director Todd Solondz has adopted a similar approach to his last film, Palindro...

Today's Viewing & Review: Where The Buffalo Roam - A Movie Based On The Twisted Legend Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Where The Buffalo Roam: A Movie Based On The Twisted Legend Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Forever destined to be known as the ‘other’ Hunter S. ...

Today's Viewing & Review: Wall Street

Wall Street It’s easy to forget that when Wall Street came out it was almost single-handedly responsible for shaping our views on how the hi...

Report: The Room – Scottish Premiere

The Cameo, Edinburgh, 20th February 2010 Since seeing The Room for the first time around a year ago during a ‘bad film day’ at a friend’s ho...

Today's Viewing & Review: Solomon Kane

Solomon Kane Kicking off an action franchise these days is difficult. The medium’s in a constant state of flux and what’s ‘in’ one minute is...

Today's Viewing & Review: Micmacs

Micmacs The last time Jean-Pierre Jeunet made a film borne out the frustrations of developing a big-budget Hollywood production, the result ...

Today's Viewing & Review: The Room

I'm seeing this again on Saturday, so will write up something more fully for that. In the meantime, you can have a listen to me talk abo...

Today's Viewing & Review: Whale Rider

Whale Rider Going in, I had no idea what this was about other than fact the lead actress was the youngest ever Best Actress nominee at the O...

Today's Viewing & Review: Tesis

Tesis Angela (Ana Torrent) is a film student in Madrid working on a thesis (the English translation of the title) about violence in cinema. ...

Today's Viewing & Reviews: Ponyo + A Single Man + Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief + The French Connection

Ponyo I’ll start with the shocking revelation that I’ve never been blown away by the much-fêted Studio Ghibli. Okay, that’s largely due t...

Toda'y Viewing & Review: Thirst

Thirst Over the last few years two clear sub-strains of boundary-pushing vampire films have taken hold, breaking from traditional depictions...

Today's Viewing & Review: I Confess

I Confess This is very much one of the ‘lesser’ Hitchcocks. It doesn’t feature an awful lot in discussions of his canon and, ashamedly, is o...

Today's Viewing & Review: The Wolfman

The Wolfman There’s a maxim in Hollywood that adverse pre-publicity and reports of on-set trouble usually equals a poor end-product. It’s pr...

Today's Viewing & Review: Manon Des Sources

Manon Des Sources Picking up around a decade after the events of Jean De Florette, ‘Le Papet’ (Yves Montand) and Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) ha...

Today's Viewing & Review: Roger & Me

Roger & Me There’s not really a lot to add to the debate surrounding the films of Michael Moore. To criticise them as being one-sided, a...

Today's Viewing & Reviews: The Princess And The Frog + Invictus

The Princess And The Frog Sometimes, you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone. This is the much-vaunted return, after six years, to ha...

Today's Viewing & Reviews: Youth In Revolt + The September Issue

Youth In Revolt I’m not against a good wank gag per se but when the first sound you hear in a film, over the production credits, is the so...

Today's Viewing & Review: Jean De Florette

Jean De Florette I’m a sucker for Le Cinéma Français and this really is one of the generally regarded national classics – an all-conquering ...