2013 Film Reviews
2013 Film Reviews
GI Joe: Retaliation
Given G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra took a city-destroying, box office haul of $302 million it’s hardly surprising we’re getting G.I. Joe: Retaliation. The first film, based on Hasbro’s line of action figures (the people behind ...
2013 Film Reviews
Hyde Park On Hudson
Leaders, politicians and kings have always made for solid award-baiting film material. Hyde Park On Hudson tries to cash in on this with varying degrees of success. On the one hand it picks up nicely where The King’s S...
2013 Film Reviews
Midnight Son
Afflicted by a rare, potentially fatal, condition that makes him allergic to sunlight, shy, sensitive Jacob (Zak Kilberg) works solitary nights as asecurity guard in an anonymous office block, spends his days cocooned in...
2013 Film Reviews
May I Kill U?
Bicycling beat bobby Baz Vartis (Kevin Bishop) is a well-meaning but ineffectual community policeman with the kind of mother, Bernice (Frances Barber), Norman Bates would find it tough to love.
2013 Film Reviews
The Place Beyond The Pines
His last feature, the uncompromising Blue Valentine, took the best part of ten years to shape and shoot, requiring an enormous commitment from its leads Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling. The last two years has seen a centrifu...
2013 Film Reviews
Hors Satan
A nameless drifter (David Dewaele) camps on the desolate beach outside of a small village in Northern France, the locals regarding him with either suspicion or as some sort of quasi-mystic healer.
2013 Film Reviews
Chinatown
When it came out, Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974) wowed critics and audiences alike.
2013 Film Reviews
Oblivion
Back in 2008, audiences fell in love with a soulful, big-hearted, little trash-collecting robot named WALL-E
