X-Men: First Class (Review)
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence Continue reading “DVD Releases: October 31, 2011”
US Box Office: October 28 – 30, 2011
1. Puss In Boots – $34M
2. Paranormal Activity 3 – $19M
3. In Time – $12M Continue reading “US Box Office: October 28 – 30, 2011”
Review: Weekend (2011)
Writer-director Andrew Haigh follows up his well-received directorial debut Greek Pete with poignant character-based drama Weekend.
Weekend tells the story of Russell (Tom Cullen) and Glenn (Chris New): two off-base gay guys who meet at a club. After a weekend of heavy drinking, drug-taking and sex, they begin to realise that they may be falling in love, despite their marked differences and opposing approaches to life.
While littered with potent questions about gay rights, politics and love, Haigh retains a light-hearted, discernible air about Weekend for its entirety, never Continue reading “Review: Weekend (2011)”
Cinema Releases: October 28, 2011
The Ides Of March
Director: George Clooney
Starring: George Clooney, Ryan Gosling and Evan Rachel Wood Continue reading “Cinema Releases: October 28, 2011”
Review: Retreat (2011)
Writer-director Carl Tibbetts makes his directorial debut with Retreat: an apocalyptic home invasion thriller set on a fictional Scottish island.
Martin (Cillian Murphy) and Kate (Thandie Newton), a couple from London, escape their broken marriage to an isolated island named Blackholme, which they visited as young lovers. While at the retreat, the couple attempt to put their past troubles behind them, only for their lives to be thrown into jeopardy when mysterious stranger, Jack (Jamie Bell), winds Continue reading “Review: Retreat (2011)”
Cinema Releases: October 26, 2011
Review: A Cat In Paris (2010)
A Cat In Paris kicked off this year’s Discovery Film Festival, a local film festival initiated by DCA Dundee aimed squarely at introducing children to world cinema. A deliberately old-fashioned animation, A Cat In Paris proves to be the perfect remedy to the mass-produced CGI that’s become the norm over the past two decades.
Propelled into silence after the death of her father to crook Victor Costa (Jean Benguigui), Zoé (Oriane Zani) leads a quiet life with her cat, Dino. With Continue reading “Review: A Cat In Paris (2010)”
Review: Contagion (2011)
Returning to her family in Minnesota after a business trip in Hong Kong, Beth Emhoff’s (Gwyneth Paltrow) supposed bad case of jet lag takes a turn for the worse. Suddenly racked with severe seizures, she dies in hospital. However, her mysterious disease quickly begins to spread, forcing researchers from the Centre for Disease Control and the World Health Orginization (Kate Winslet, Lawrence Fishburne, Jennifer Ehle and Marion Cotillard) to face the crisis head on as they work to manage emerging clusters, develop a cure and trace the growing epidemic back to Continue reading “Review: Contagion (2011)”
Review: The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn (2011)
An avid fan, and the sole person trusted by Hergé to adapt his comic books, Steven Spielberg joins forces with Peter Jackson to bring the iconic drawings to life through the art of motion capture: a method which both filmmakers believe unrivalled for representing the author’s bewitching world.
Combining elements from three of Hergé’s celebrated tales, The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn centres on plucky newspaper reporter Tintin (Jamie Bell) and his attempts to find the treasure of Sir Francis Continue reading “Review: The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn (2011)”
UK Box Office: October 21 – 23, 2011
1. Paranormal Activity 3 – £3.4M
2. Johnny English Reborn – £2.1M
3. Contagion – £1.5M Continue reading “UK Box Office: October 21 – 23, 2011”
Empty Screens 