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Time Bombs

Saturday 7 November '09

THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE DIRECTOR: Robert Schwentke CAST: Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams rating: H
Bitter Cold

Saturday 31 October '09

You know what you are into, when 10-odd minutes into a murder mystery based in Antarctica, with the temperature outside down to...
Rat-a-tat, They Go

Saturday 24 October '09

G-FORCE DIRECTOR: Hoyt Yeatman CAST: Bill Nighy, Zach Galifianakis and voices of Sam Rockwell, Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz, Jon Favreau rating: HHH
The Summer of ’69

Saturday 24 October '09

TAKING WOODSTOCK DIRECTOR: Ang Lee CAST: Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Liev Schreiber, Henry Goodman rating: HHHH
Machine Heads

Saturday 10 October '09

SURROGATES DIRECTOR: Jonathan Mostow CAST: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, James Cromwell rating: HH
A Mom ’n’ Pop Show

Saturday 10 October '09

AWAY WE GO DIRECTOR: Sam Mendes CAST: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels, Allison Janney, Maggie Gyllenhaal rating: HHH
Gloury be to Tarantino

Saturday 3 October '09

Quentin Tarantino has called this a war film in the style of spaghetti westerns, of which he is a great fan.
It’s Raining Spaghetti

Saturday 3 October '09

There are some films that can work only in animation, like Cloudy…. But for films to work in any kind of medium, they have to connect...
Family horror

Friday 25 September '09

ORPHAN DIRECTOR: Jaume Collet-Serra CAST: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, Aryana Engineer rating: HHHH
Fresh air

Friday 18 September '09

UP DIRECTOR: Pete Docter Voices: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, Christopher Plummer rating: HHHH
Mayhem

Saturday 12 September '09

Sucks, honestly

Saturday 12 September '09

Family matters

Saturday 12 September '09

Great Depression Face-Off

Saturday 8 August '09

WHEN the film is a biographical sketch, this is a problem most directors run up against: where to draw the line between the person and the persona.
Magic in mini doses

Saturday 15 August '09

NOW here is a film that makes no pretence of being anything more than a big-screen adaptation of a television children’s show.
Sadly Badly Conceived

Saturday 8 August '09

Fifteen-year-old Mahi (Sheena Shahabadi) is going to be a mommy, and 17-year-old Kukoo aka Kabir (Ruslaan Mumtaaz) a daddy.
A Cantonese Battle, Scarred

Saturday 1 August '09

A ruthless prime minister subjugating warlords for supremacy, during the time of the Han dynasty, provides plenty of ground for action.
Derailed

Saturday 29 August '09

THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123....
Movie Review: Ghosts of girlfriends past

Saturday 22 August '09

In Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Connor played by McConaughey asks: “When did casual sex become a crime?” Whenever indeed?
Movie Review: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Saturday 22 August '09

Let’s just say only this. The scary thing about G.I. Joe isn’t that warheads — casually thrown about, lugged in a suitcase through gunfights around the world...
Movie Review: The Brothers Bloom

Saturday 22 August '09

Writer-director Rian Johnson had a nice idea — a film about two brothers who are con artistes, where one con runs seamlessly into the other...
Movie review: Public Enemies

Saturday 8 August '09

When the film is a biographical sketch, this is a problem most directors run up against: where to draw the line between the person and the persona.
Movie review: RED CLIFF

Saturday 1 August '09

A ruthless prime minister subjugating warlords for supremacy, during the time of the Han dynasty, provides plenty of ground for action.
MOVIE REVIEWS

Sunday 26 July '09

What can you say? This is that kind of film where Amelia Earhart briefly returns to life to fall gleefully in the arms of a glum night guard...
Movie reviews

Saturday 25 July '09

What can you say? This is that kind of film where Amelia Earhart briefly returns to life to fall gleefully in the arms of a glum night guard; Albert Einstein is a bobble-headed toy; the Thinker can’t go past his biceps; and Kah-mun-rah is a Pharaoh with a clipped English accent.
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