Starring Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms
Directed by Todd Philips

★★★

With such a vast amount of caper themed comedies released over the past 30 years or so, it’s a nice and rare thing to get one that can stand on its own. With such a ‘comedy by numbers’ format the scope for originality has at this stage, run very thin.
The sub genre really hit its peak during the 1980’s; most notably with the string of successful college caper movies by National Lampoons and John Hughes. The latter truly setting the bar for all to reach with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in 1986. Continue reading The Hangover →

Starring Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Bryce Dallas Howard,
Helena Bonham Carter, Anton Yelchin, Michael Ironside
Directed by Mc G

★★★

It’s been 25 years since James Cameron first introduced us to a cold, calculating cyborg from the future with an iconic catchphrase, as well as giving us a fresh thinking Sci-Fi Thriller in Terminator. Continue reading Terminator Salvation →

Starring Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Francella Guillermo
Directed by Carlos Cuarón

★★★★

It’s been a relatively long and steadily successful career road for Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal. Having made their arrival firmly known in Alfonso Cuarón’s excellent Y tu mama tambien in 2004, they have individually made their names known, starring in a number of well received films at home in Mexico as well as some very successful Hollywood productions; Luna co starred with Tom Hanks in Stephen Spielberg’s The Terminal and last year he played a substantial role opposite Sean Penn in Gus Van Sant’s Oscar winning Milk. Garcia Bernal received notable interest after playing Che Guevara – for the second time – in the acclaimed Motorcycle Diaries. Since then He has starred in Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep as well as Alejandro González Iñárritu’s multi Oscar nominated Babel. Continue reading Rudo & Cursi →

(Lat Den Ratte Komma In)

Directed by Thomas Alfredson
Starring Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson

★★★★

I’ll begin with a personal claim that many may find haste and irrational; there are two stories you need to know regarding the vampire myth; one is Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and the other is John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In. I base this claim on the fact that upon seeing this superb film adaptation of the latter book, I have not known the vampire myth to be so poetically and emotionally enacted since the former masterpiece, which to many, is the very origin of the modern vampire yarn. Continue reading Let the Right One In (Lat Den Ratte Komma In) →