clips and trailers: Thor (2011)

When I was a kid I used to read about Norse Gods a lot. I dunno, they were much more interesting than the ol’ bible stories. I mean there was that one guy whose children were a serpent, a wolf and a creepy daughter who ruled over Hel. He was always my favourite. Not that [...]

releasing this week: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

It’s not been a bad couple of weeks for cinema and this week sees a couple of big releases. Adam Sandler’s latest, Grown Ups is out as is Diary of a Wimpy Kid, based on the popular kids novels. Speaking of novels, Swedish thriller The Girl Who Played With Fire is also out. There’s only [...]

review: Kick-Ass (2010)

I’d be extremely surprised if you haven’t heard of Kick-Ass at this stage. It seems to be everywhere I look, online and offline. Granted I hang around movies websites and cinemas a lot but I even saw the titular Kick-Ass peering at me from the window of a French Connection store this afternoon – what’s [...]

feature: Iron Man 2

So I reckoned it was probably time I did a feature on something… I didn’t want to pick anything too far away because well, release dates change all the time, so I picked Iron Man 2. Actually I’m not entirely sure of the release date on this. It’s supposed to be in Irish cinemas from [...]

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 [...]