Friends With Benefits
Director: Will Gluck
Starring: Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake and Patricia Clarkson Continue reading “Cinema Releases: September 9, 2011”
Review: Colombiana (2011)
Centring on a young girl, Cataleya (Zoe Saldana), Colombiana is the latest in Luc Besson’s trademark line of action-thrillers. Unfortunately, that trademark now seems to mean chock full of commonplace tropes, overcooked narrative devices and poorly constituted characters. Here, Cataleya witnesses the brutal death of her parents, catalysing her transformation into a deadly assassin, hellbent on revenge.
Generic and unequivocal, Besson and his fellow screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen have constructed an uneven, overwrought screenplay, plucking ideas from other films in the genre and piecing them haphazardly together in Continue reading “Review: Colombiana (2011)”
Cinema Releases: September 7, 2011
A Lonely Place To Die
Director: Julian Gilbey
Starring: Melissa George, Ed Speleers and Eamonn Walker
DVD Releases: September 5, 2011
Fast & Furious 5 (Review)
Director: Justin Lin
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel and Paul Walker Continue reading “DVD Releases: September 5, 2011”
US Box Office: September 2 – 4, 2011
1. The Help – $14.2M
2. The Debt – £9.6M
3. Apollo 18 – $8.7M Continue reading “US Box Office: September 2 – 4, 2011”
Review: Fright Night (2011)
Fright Night is a bold, bright and fresh remake of Tom Holland’s much loved, and classically supernatural horror. The film centers on Charley Bewley (Anton Yelchin): an awkward teenage boy who has it made with a hot-as-hell girlfriend (Imogen Poots), devoted mum (Toni Collette) and independent American lifestyle. When mysterious Jerry (Colin Farrell) moves next door, it’s up to Charley to protect his family and rid the Nevada dessert of a deadly vampire clan.
While Fright Night may be as unnecessary as remakes come, it benefits from its refreshingly honest level of self-awareness, as well as the numerous Continue reading “Review: Fright Night (2011)”
Cinema Releases: September 2, 2011
Fright Night
Director: Craig Gillespie
Starring: Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin and David Tennant Continue reading “Cinema Releases: September 2, 2011”
DVD Releases: August 29, 2011
Hanna (Review)
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett and Eric Bana Continue reading “DVD Releases: August 29, 2011”
Review: Final Destination 5 (2011)
The fifth instalment in New Line Cinema’s massively successful horror franchise, Final Destination 5 isn’t terribly dissimilar to the films before it, which always center on a character who has a premonition about a fatal accident and must cheat Death in order to prevent multiple fatalities. In this incarnation, Sam Lawton (Nicholas D’Agosto) experiences exactly this, witnessing the death of both himself and his co-workers.
No matter how stoic and predicable the Final Destination films have come to be, credit must be given to the filmmakers and writers of each instalment who have always valiantly tried to veer away from the typical trajectory and create something new and exciting with each new instalment. Thankfully, the same can be said for Final Destination 5, in which screenwriter Continue reading “Review: Final Destination 5 (2011)”
US Box Office: August 26 – 28, 2011
1. The Help – $14.4M
2. Colombiana – $10.3M
3. Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark – $8.7M Continue reading “US Box Office: August 26 – 28, 2011”
Empty Screens 