Just Another Movie… Will Ferrell, Hollywood’s staple man in comedy for some years now, re-teams with director Adam McKay for The Other Guys, a buddy-cop comedy that definitely has its moments, but is ultimately nothing you haven’t already seen before. Ferrell typically delivers his best work alongside McKay (their co-op resume includes such laugh riots [...]

Better than A Space Odyssey. Yeah, I said it. Shot on every cent of a five million dollar budget and the directorial debut of Duncan Jones (the son of David Bowie, no less), Moon was without doubt the most underrated and underviewed film of 2009. With an underrated film comes an underrated actor in Sam Rockwell [...]

Heard about it, but haven’t seen it yet? Lose a man card. The first half of the 1990s was a glorious, competitive time for mob films. Okay, so we started off with the disappointing (but far from terrible) The Godfather: Part 3, but later that year Martin Scorsese released GoodFellas, which many people consider to be [...]

May be the most surprising film you see all year… From Edgar Wright (Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz), a fresh director with his finger on the comedic pulse, comes Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, an original, unconventional and interesting meld of several genres you wouldn’t expect to work well in conjunction with one another, but [...]

Uninspired, Unimaginative, Unimpressed. Knowing practically nothing about this film before sitting down in the cinema, I had hope that Skyline would continue to tread the high-quality benchmark set by Moon and District 9 in consecutive years; here we have a sci-fi film made on a nothing budget ($10 million, entirely financed by the directing duo [...]

‘You know something, Utivich? I think this just might be my masterpiece.’ –Lt. Aldo Raine. With this closing line of his stylized war epic, borderline-insane film mogul Quentin Tarantino offers an all-too-obvious example of breaking the fourth wall via his character’s words. Brad Pitt was referring to his skill as a ‘human sculptor’ of sorts, [...]

Our titular character (who, funnily enough, never refers to himself as Scarface throughout the film) is Tony Montana, a refugee from Cuba arriving in the United States in pursuit of the American dream. With the help of Frank Lopez and best buddy Manny Ribera, he climbs to the pinnacle of the cocaine industry, building an [...]

What would be a befitting summer comedy in the United States is actually a somewhat out-of-place winter comedy upon hitting Australian shores, awkwardly wedged between higher-profile comedies (Get Him To The Greek, Toy Story 3) and cash-cow monsters (The A-Team, Twilight: Eclipse). Still, it complies with the formula for commercial success in this genre fairly [...]

Nick Giannopoulos and Vince Colosimo reprise their roles as ‘Wog Boys’ Steve and Frank, who embark on a trip to the beautiful Greek island to claim what is theirs: a beach Steve has apparently inherited following the passing of his relative Panos. While trying to get around some red tape, and the evil intentions of [...]

Despite this, or perhaps because of it, his films have come under criticism by some who feel that his angle is centered only on spectacular imagery, rather than the development of an engaging plot and characters. But as they say, you can’t argue with results. Primarily engaged in sci-fi towards the earlier part of his career [...]

In a career that has aged like a fine wine since the mid-50s, one universal conclusion can be made about the acting talents of Jack Nicholson: he’s at his best as the bad guy. With the one notable exception of his deranged yet life-loving mental patient McMurphy (for which he won Best Actor) being victimized at [...]

His earliest projects would typically deal with matters of great importance to his Italian-American background. Family values, honor and respect would all feature prominently in personal films, but it wouldn’t be until 1973 where Scorsese would make his name known. The release of Mean Streets introduced the world not just to Scorsese’s world of quick cuts [...]

Having already crossed two members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad off her hit list, we follow the Bride as she travels to a desert caravan park to confront Bill’s brother Bud and fellow assassin Elle, who just happens to be Bill’s newest lover. Sadly, she does so without the use of her beloved Pussy [...]

Before even beginning this review, I think it’s important to note that you can’t review both volumes of Kill Bill in the same document; the films are just too different. So instead, just like the films themselves, this review will come in a two-part series. The plot is nothing more and nothing less than a [...]

Heeeeeeeere’s Johnny…Hollywood that is, and this week I’ll be reviewing what is, in my opinion, the greatest horror film of all time: The Shining. Based on the novel by Stephen King and directed by the extremely creative Stanley Kubrick (whose most popular films have featured regularly in ‘All-Time Greatest’ lists), it is a film that [...]

Having churned out some of the most heartfelt (and uproarious) films of the last decade including The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, Apatow has virtually created a whole new sub-genre of comedic film-making, and it is refreshing to see him try his hand elsewhere. Adam Sandler, arguably the most omnipresent actor in the comedy genre [...]

The action-spy-thriller-with-a-giant-MacGuffin, not similar to M:I 3 at all. But, lucky for Cruise and Diaz, this film is at least different enough from Vanilla Sky to keep me from taking another low blow. Instead, Cruise plays former CIA agent Roy Miller, a man who’s recently gone AWOL and has possession of the top secret Rabbit’s [...]

The film centres around Columbus (Eisenberg), a young man living in solitude, believing he is the only person remaining on a planet overrun by the undead. His chances of survival, as well as the opportunity to gain the closest thing he’s ever had to a real family, increase upon meeting the trigger-happy Tallahassee and con [...]

Here’s a film that not only has basic appeal to pre-tweens all over the world, but one which has been released at a time in which those of us who grew up with the first two films have not lost contact with the story or the characters, and are more than keen to find out [...]

Generating immense hype through the posting of ambiguous images on the film’s own spin-off website (1-18-08.com), it almost felt as if Cloverfield had grabbed the entire internet population by the throat, and forced it to uncover the mystery of what exactly has caused so much unexplainable damage to Manhattan. Ultimately, however, the exploits of those [...]