Brick: how did I miss this film?
Take the plot, dialogue and style of a 30s crime-noir, with a hard-nosed detective, a femme fatale, drug lords and enigmatic informants, and transpose it all to a modern-day High School.
Les Misérables: something is missing in this hard life
All the way through this screen version of Les Miserables, I felt like something was missing. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it quite enough. I just felt that something was off, not quite right. It wasn't until the film was over as I was leaving the theatre that I realised what it was.
Act of Valor: bang for your buck
Much like the Special Air Service during the London Iranian Embassy action (and the movie that followed, Who Dares Wins), the US Navy SEALs were fully exposed to the glare of publicity when they raided a compound in Pakistan and killed Osama Bin Laden. Now comes a film of the unit's exploits, but with a twist: it stars actual, active duty, Navy SEALs.
The Avengers
When you have a motley collection of strong characters and a plot involving world invasion, who else do you get to direct but Joss Whedon?
X-Men First Class
After the debacle that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine, you'd be forgiven for thinking that perhaps the X-Men franchise was best left to lie for a while. Never let it be said however that Hollywood is unwilling to beat a dead horse; out come the whips to give us X-Men: First Class. Except somewhere along the way, they actually made a classy, fun, interesting film.
The power of music
Just released has been the first full trailer for Battle: Los Angeles (called World Invasion: Los Angeles in some parts of the globe). With the volume turned off, it appears much like any other Hollywood action shoot-em-up war film, perhaps …
For I have seen Star Trek and it is reborn
Now this is how you do an origin film. Fox take note.
It’s not awesome in a Batman Begins way, but it walks up, punches out, drags to the river, attaches weights and throws X Men Origins: Wolverine in.
Star …
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Dear Fox Executives: put that Magneto script down now. And that Deadpool one. Back – the – hell – away.…
Valkyrie
Well I am happy to say that Hollywood, for once, got it pretty right.
Valkyrie is a pretty faithful retelling of the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. While the story is known, and thus the outcome set, it …
Best Film 2008
My Award for Best Film of 2008 goes to *drumroll*:
The Dark Knight.
I never finished my review at the time of this film’s release, because the film blew we away so much I just couldn’t put words in …