“Run into a bank with a bomb and take all the money and leave and then go back to work.” “Don’t make a big deal out of it, all right?” Basically, that’s the genius concept of this movie – and what a great one. It’s so simple, yet somehow, there are gags after gags after [...]
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Friends With Benefits
Hilarious. You know what this film is gonna be about: two friends Jamie (Mila Kunis) and Dylan (Justin Timberlake) become friends with benefits, but things don’t turn out how they exactly planned. Mila Kunis is delightful and funny. Justin Timberlake does a really good job too. Director Will Gluck works with a great, quick and [...]
One Day
Emma and Dexter meet on St Swithuns Day and the film charts their lives on every July 15th for 20 years when sometimes they are friends, sometimes lovers, or sometimes something else entirely. Anne Hathaway is a delight as Emma, the only issue being her unrealistic aging over 20 years. Jim Sturgess is on fine [...]
The Inbetweeners Movie
Four teenagers finish sixth form and go on holiday to Malia. Pretty simple concept, pretty hilarious film. For those who haven’t seen the TV series it doesn’t really matter; the four main characters Will, Simon, Jay, and Neil are each summed up very well in the first 15 minutes. The actors do what they do [...]
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
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 [...]
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 [...]
Endless May Dreams 