Top Ten Movies

Movie review: Brooklyn’s Finest is an immensely frustrating film. While it never does anything to set itself apart from so many other cop dramas you’ve seen involving dirty cops, the lack of pay for their public service and the overall effect dealing with the scum of the Earth can do to a person, it actually [...]

Movie review: Gerard Butler plays Milo Boyd, an ex-cop turned unwashed, unshaven bounty hunter who gambles and drinks too much. He’s also ex-husband to intrepid girl reporter Nicole Hurley (Jennifer Aniston). At the start of the film, she’s investigating a mysterious suicide for a story in the New York Daily News but is held up [...]

Movie reivew: Not having seen George A. Romero’s 1973 original, I can’t tell you how this film compares, but I can tell you Breck Eisner’s The Crazies  is a much-needed jolt to the horror genre that proves there is still reason to keep making films that set out to raise our pulse. Something’s gone wrong [...]

Movie review: Who wouldn’t want to travel back to the 1980′s in a hot tub with their buddies and party again like you did in high school? Think about it? No jobs, no wives, no kids, no responsibilities, just you, your friends, the slopes and as much alcohol as you can consume. Well that is [...]

Movie review: Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor take centre stage in I Love You Phillip Morris. And Mark’s been along to check the film out… Published on Mar 18, 2010 There are typically only two means through which ‘gay’ movies make it into the American mainstream. The first is through prestige and ‘worthiness’. The excellent [...]

Movie review: I haven’t read a word of Leo Tolstoy’s novels so some may say I was approaching The Last Station at a disadvantage as it focuses on the final days of Tolstoy’s life. Looking even further, I haven’t seen any of writer/director Michael Hoffman’s films prior to watching The Last Station, a film that [...]

Movie review: Yuppie scum is a term that may not be heard much nowadays, but it applies to the shallow, boorish stock traders at Morgan & Morgan, the fictional New York investment bank in Julio DePietro’s acidic romantic comedy, “The Good Guy.” Shown last year at the Tribeca Film Festival just a few months after [...]

Movie review: Prospect: One small town in one of the southern states, population 1832, where everybody knows everybody else and the ubiquitous ‘Welcome To…’ sign on the town’s border feels more like the doors of a prison cell. Rhett Ryan knows these ties all too well but, as a wannabe country singer, he thinks he [...]

Movie review: Paul Greengrass’s Green Zone  would have best been left to videogame developers. Adapt the action that makes up nearly 80% of the film into a first person shooter and add a few cut scenes to keep hammering home the film’s irrelevant political point and you’ve got a multi-million dollar game franchise. But no, [...]

Movie review: Anything can happen at any time. The quote “life is full of surprises” is a popular one because it’s true, and it’s not often in filmmaking a movie is able to capture the essence of that quote and give it true meaning. Remember Me  manages to do just that, using well developed characters [...]

Movie review: The new rom-com She’s Out of My League requires a pretty hefty suspension of belief, asking us to believe that a goddess like Alice Eve would not only be attracted to the fidgety schlub played by Jay Baruchel (Tropic Thunder, How to Train Your Dragon), but that she would aggressively pursue him, tolerate [...]

Movie review: I guess it could have been worse. It could have been Leap Year. No matter, When In Rome  is just another installment in the continuing lackluster series of romantic comedies that haunt the early year release schedule. As much as studios spend on script doctors for their more serious fare, wouldn’t it make [...]

Movie review: There’s no logic, rhyme or reason to much of what happens in Pierre Morel’s From Paris with Love, his kinetic shoot ‘em up actioner released almost exactly one year after his nearly $150 million 2009 hit Taken. And as much as I enjoyed Taken for its absurd-yet-entertaining action, From Paris with Love is [...]

Movie review: Chloe opens with music professor David Stewart (Liam Neeson) purposely missing his flight home from New York to spend time with his students, and in turn he misses the surprise birthday party waiting for him at home – orchestrated by his wife Dr. Catherine Stewart (Julianne Moore). As two successful professionals, David and [...]

Movie review: The film is a remake of the 1941 horror film of the same name. The central plot follows Lawrence Talbot (Benicio del Toro), a man who re-unites with his father (Anthony Hopkins) after learning his brother has been brutally murdered. Talbot, who has had a distant relationship with his family, decides to stay [...]

Movie review: Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island. I eventually got to the cinema last night to see Shutter Island, a film I [...]

Movie review: Solomon Kane (2009) is a film directed by Michael J. Bassett based on the pulp magazine character Solomon Kane created in 1928 by Robert E. Howard. James Purefoy stars in the title role.[1]  Despite optioning the rights in 1997, filming did not begin until January 2008. The film is an origin story for [...]

Movie review: In the sweet and slight and often charming coming-of-age tale “Youth in Revolt,” Michael Cera plays a teenager with rampaging hormones and, when the film opens at least, no obvious romantic prospects. On the face of it, this seems preposterous: Mr. Cera, who turns 22 in June, is a professional cutie-pie and very [...]

Movie review: Nearly a century and a half after Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland first acquainted readers with the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, and the rest of the peculiar inhabitants of author Lewis Carroll’s fertile imagination, filmmaking technology has finally developed the tools capable of properly rendering Carroll’s exquisitely twisted world on the big screen. [...]

Movie review: On the evidence of pre-release blog and message-board buzz, even Jackie Chan’s most faithful fans plan to skip “The Spy Next Door,” the latest Hollywood machine to milk laughs from the testosterone vs. tots template. Possibly smarting from losing the lead in “The Pacifier” (!), the 55-year-old action hero tackles, with typical enthusiasm [...]