There have been a fair few awful reviews of this last instalment of the Transformers trilogy – but shock, horror – I quite liked it. It is by far better than the second film, but of course nothing can beat the first. The film traces the Autobots as they race against the Decepticons to find [...]
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Bridesmaids
Utter hilarity. Kristen Wiig stars as Annie who becomes her best friend’s maid of honour and tries to plan everything leading up to the nuptials, but of course disaster ensues and not everything goes to plan. From bachelorette party to bridal shower to friendship itself – nothing ever seems to go right in Annie’s out [...]
U2 at Glastonbury
Spectacular. Awesome. Wonderful. I was unable to go to Glastonbury to see my all-time favourite band perform so I had to watch it online. And even so – what a treat! Friday was U2’s first performance in about 25 years to an audience that was not their own. This shows just how big the band [...]
The Killers at Hard Rock Calling
The sun was out, and so were the clouds on the first night of Hard Rock Calling on Friday. Whilst some music fans were over in Glastonbury, I was in Hyde Park watching Michael Kiwanuka, Kaiser Chiefs, and The Killers as they performed for the festival which marked its 40th birthday on Friday. By late [...]
My Neighbour Totoro
Adorable. Lovely. Re-watchable. Hayao Miyazaki’s 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film, produced by Studio Ghibli, is an absolute delight. Two sisters, Satsuki and Mei, move to the countryside with their father whilst their mother recovers from an illness in hospital. While in the countryside, the sisters experience an adventurous life with the spirits from the forest: [...]
Confessions
Cunning. Chilling. Psychotic. Tetsuya Nakashima’s 2010 Japanese psychological thriller Confessions has a wonderful though very disturbing storyline: a secondary school teacher enacts revenge on two of her pupils who killed her four year old daughter. Narrated by the teacher, a pupil in the class, one of the killers’ mothers, and both of the murderers; each [...]
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Fun. Entertaining. Funny. Everything you could ask for from a Robert Marshall directed film. Jack Sparrow returns again, this time in London – though only briefly, on his quest for the fountain of youth. The Captain comes across Barbossa, Blackbeard, zombies, mermaids, and a priest on his journey. Johnny Depp is on fine form, and [...]
After Dark
I’ve never read a full film script before, but after reading After Dark I feel like I’ve read a short film script. Haruki Murakami’s short novel takes place in Tokyo, in the time of seven hours with only a handful of characters that are mysteriously connected. Female protagonist Mari has her world turned upside [...]
Endless May Dreams 