review: The Artist (2011)

In case you hadn’t heard, The Artist won 3 gongs at the 69th Golden Globe Awards last night – Best Original Score for Ludovic Bource’s work, Best Actor for Jean Dujardin and Best Film – Comedy or Musical. Well done them! The first I had heard of The Artist was a few months back, maybe [...]

review: His & Hers (2010)

I had to think about this one. Well, I think about all my reviews – words don’t appear on the screen by themselves* – but usually it’s less about what I’m going to say and more about how I’m going to say it. This film had me thinking about… stuff. Ah ok, there’s no point [...]

review: Crazy Heart (2009)

Saw this in the beautiful Light House cinema, an 4 screen arthouse cinema in Smithfield. I wasn’t particularly expecting to like this film. I don’t really like country music and it sounded like a story I’ve heard before. I like to see new stuff, or at least old stuff taken in a new direction or [...]

review: Fantastic Mr. Fox

This is one of those situations where I can’t really review this film as an average person. Fantastic Mr. Fox is Wes Anderson’s new film. I love Wes Anderson’s films. I can’t help it, there’s something about his films that just work for me. So I can only really review the film as a Wes [...]

review: Crank: High Voltage (2009)

After watching Crank the other week, I was really looking forward to Crank: High Voltage. Crank was one of the maddest films I’d ever seen… it wasn’t THE maddest film; I’d have to review the IMDb list to be sure but The Spirit, which I saw earlier this year, is definitely a contender; but it [...]

review: The Damned United (2009)

Ok… So I actually wrote most of this review last week but somehow it’s all been deleted, very upsetting. Oh well, better just get on with it. I like watching football, but I don’t know all that much about some of the history of it. All I knew about Brian Clough was that he once [...]

review: Watchmen (2009)

I’ve been disgracefully lax of late. I’ve actually seen quite a few new films in the weeks since I reviewed My Bloody Valentine 3D. Well, new to me anyway. In case you’re interested they were… The Wrestler, Frost/Nixon, Confessions of a Shopaholic, The Notebook, The Devil Wears Prada, Bolt 3D, Anvil! The Story of Anvil [...]

review: The Spirit (2008)

I’d never really heard of The Spirit (the film or the comics) until I started seeing the tv ads about a week before it came out… I like the visual style and I’m interested in films of comic book stories but mostly what swung it was that it had Samuel L. Jackson in it. I’ll [...]

review: Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

Sometimes I wonder if Seth Rogen sleeps… he seems to be in everything these days… Anyway, Zack and Miri Make a Porno is the new film from Kevin Smith, director of such films as Clerks, Dogma and Chasing Amy. I’ve mentioned before that I’m not mad about Kevin Smith. It’s not that I think he’s [...]

review: Hunger (2008)

I didn’t grow up in Ireland during “the troubles“, I grew up in Asia but I am Irish… so I don’t what you’ll make of that but it’s just to put the review in a bit of context. I thought Hunger was an interesting film. I know very little about Bobby Sands, I know very [...]

Next Page »