Category: Film
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This severely overrated romantic comedy drama is a rather boring rehash of Valentine’s Day, The Kids Are All Right and It’s Complicated, with none of the latter two’s charm or wit. It isn’t as horrendous as Valentine’s Day (not many things are), but it does have one of those all-these-different-people-connected-by-love-or-the-hunt-for-love-and-maybe-they-are-closer-connected-than-you-think type of narratives. Steve Carell…
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The best Norwegian mockumentary about trolls you’ll see all year…
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Think feminine equivalent to Taken for this new high-concept low-quality action thriller co-scripted by Luc Besson, which rips its plot from his own Leon. Zoe Saldana is the daughter of a Colombian mobster whose boss has her father and mother killed in front of her, triggering her violent and vengeful path towards retribution. Cliff Curtis…
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New Brit-film ‘A Lonely Place to Die’ suffers from an identity crisis, says The EDGE.
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The Devil’s Double tells the unbelievable story of Latif Yahia, the proud Iraqi soldier who was forced to serve as Uday Hussein’s (the eldest son of Saddam Hussein) body double. Dominic Cooper, whose past work includes The History Boys and Mamma Mia!, steps up to the challenge of playing both of these characters with an…
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Battle: Los Angeles tries desperately to be Independence Day meets The Hurt Locker, but sadly it has neither the brains nor the characterisation of either of those two superior pictures. Directed by South African filmmaker Jonathan Liebesman (to whom we have to thank for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning), the film is a derivative…
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This hazy and unsatisfying college life thriller tries to be hip, cool and out there, but ends up feeling dull, deranged and more than a little pretentious. Jesse Bradford, a competent young actor who handles the silly script as best he can, plays Jack, a partying druggy who spends most of his time on the…
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A group of good-looking youngsters party, deal drugs and murder people in this terribly bad straight-to-DVD dud from Alan Pao. The clunky story sees hot rich boy Tristan (Desperate Housewives’ Jesse Metcalfe) escape from his domineering father with his younger brother Hayden (Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford) for a night out drinking, partying and ogling at strippers.…
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Released on Blu-ray this autumn, Pulp Fiction (1994) — arguably Tarantino’s most successful and critically acclaimed film — gets the high-definition upgrade fans have been waiting for… and what a beauty it is to watch. The non-linear and multiple narrative brainchild of Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction follows the fast-paced and violent lives of a group…
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The Edge’s Film Editor takes a look at what Union Films has in store for the students of Southampton this year for Halloween.
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A movie deemed so disturbing it was only released in the UK in its entirety in 2002, Straw Dogs concerns American mathematician David (Dustin Hoffman) and his wife Amy (Susan George), who move back to her fictional hometown of Wakely, Cornwall and face increasing hostility from the locals. Naturally, these actions escalate in their intensity…
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Wes Craven’s iconic classic A Nightmare on Elm Street has been parodied, remade, continued and retread so much, the spirit of the first film is hard to remember. Horror expert Kim Newman, writing in his huge book Nightmare Movies (buy it – you have to), holds up Nightmare as the film “responsible for the resurrection…
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Pedro Almodovar’s latest is a sumptuously shot and grippingly told chiller.
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A happy end to the saga?