Category: Film
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After some rather less-than-mediocre offerings from the Marvel stable (last year’s Iron Man 2 being a recent low point), I was delighted to find that Thor, directed by Shakespeare god Kenneth Branagh, is not just a step in the right direction but an absolute feast of entertainment. Some expressed surprise when Branagh’s attachment to the…
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‘Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages…welcome to the Cirque De Disinterest’….or alternatively, to Francis Lawrence’s circus period drama ‘Water For Elephants.’ Adapted from the New York Times Bestseller by Sara Gruen, Water For Elephants tells the story of Jacob Jankowski (Robert Pattinson), a Polish immigrant in 1930s America prepped to pass…
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This sombre and meticulously filmed effort from French director Xavier Beauvois looks at the daily lives of a group of Trappist monks living in 1990s Algeria. They grow plants, they donate medical attention to those who need it, and they sell honey. This is all pleasant enough, but probably wouldn’t be enough to sustain a…
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William and Kate: The Movie. People couldn’t believe it when they heard it was actually happening. Some hoped it would be so bad it would swing round the whole 360° of awfulness and land in the area of good trashy entertainment, where other confectionary such as Mamma Mia! and Top Gun could keep it company.…
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The EDGE’s Adam Vaughan soon gets (sea)sick of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’…
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If you’re not a fan of slow, artistic dramas that have more interest in their characters’ private parts than a compelling narrative, you’d probably be best avoiding Ashley Horner’s overindulgent debut feature about a young couple called Noon and Manchester. With names destined, and perhaps designed, to annoy less tolerant viewers, the two leads have…
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Rob Leane takes us into the recent filmic archives with a belated response to the other Facebook movie
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Duncan Jones, son of the most famous icon on the planet, catapulted himself into the Hollywood big leagues with his brilliant conceptual Sci-Fi drama concerning the most famous icon off the planet, Moon. With Source Code, his second film as a feature length director, Jones gives us his take on the Sci-Fi thriller and proves…
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CRASH. BANG. WALLOP. These are the sights and sounds of Battle: Los Angeles, the latest alien invasion movie to hurtle into screens up and down the country leaving heavy eyes and sore heads in its wake. What plot there is centres on Aaron Eckhart’s stoical Staff Sergeant marine. He’s just returned from a tour in the…
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This is director Brad Furman’s second feature film, adapted from a Michael Connelly bestseller by John Romano, and it places him promisingly high on the list of talents to watch. The Lincoln Lawyer is an assured, cool and stylish legal thriller with a smooth Matthew McConaughey in the title role. In fact, it’s McConaughey that…
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The first arthouse 3D film gets The EDGE treatment…
