The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 2011. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Joely Richardson, Goran Visnjic and Geraldine James. SYNOPSIS: A magazine journalist and a troubled computer hacker team up to search for a woman who has been missing for forty years. Ah, […]
Movie Review – Puss in Boots (2011)
Puss in Boots, 2011. Directed by Chris Miller. Featuring the voice talents of Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris, Constance Marie and Guillermo del Toro. SYNOPSIS: The heroic Puss in Boots is pitted against the outlaws Jack and Jill, who have discoved an ancient power that threatens the world. As […]
Movie Review – Real Steel (2011)
Real Steel, 2011. Directed by Shawn Levy. Starring Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackie, Hope Davis and Kevin Durand. SYNOPSIS: In the not too distant future – where robot boxing has superseded human boxing/MMA – a struggling robot fight coach discovers that he has an 11-year-old son who wants to know his father […]
Movie Review – Colombiana (2011)
Colombiana, 2011. Directed by Olivier Megaton. Starring Zoe Saldana, Michael Vartan, Cliff Curtis and Lennie James. SYNOPSIS: A young woman, after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. This is a no holds barred ‘vengeance actioner’ with the great Zoe Saldana (Avatar, Star Trek) getting a […]
Movie Review – Bad Teacher (2011)
Bad Teacher, 2011. Directed by Jake Kasdan. Starring Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel and Justin Timberlake. SYNOPSIS: A romantic comedy centred around a shallow, drug using, potty mouthed junior high teacher who, after being dumped by her sugar daddy, begins to woo a colleague – a move that pits her against a fellow teacher. So, Bad […]
Thoughts on… G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, 2009. Directed by Stephen Sommers . Starring Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Sienna Miller, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rachel Nichols, Dennis Quaid, Arnold Vosloo, Saïd Taghmaoui, Ray Park, Byung-hun Lee, Christopher Eccleston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Jonathan Pryce. SYNOPSIS: An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe take on an […]
Movie Review – Sucker Punch (2011)
Sucker Punch, 2011. Directed by Zack Snyder. Starring Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Oscar Isaac, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm and Scott Glenn. SYNOPSIS: Locked away against her will, a young girl’s vivid imagination provides a thrilling escape from her dark reality. With Sucker Punch, Zack Snyder is for the first […]
Movie Review – Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
Battle: Los Angeles, 2011. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman. Starring Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan, Ramon Rodriguez, Cory Hardrict, Michael Peña, Ne-Yo, Nzinga Blake and Will Rothhaar. SYNOPSIS: Los Angeles becomes a battleground as a platoon of U.S. Marines make a desperate last stand against invading extra-terrestrial forces. Independence Day, Cloverfield, The Day the Earth […]
Movie Review – Due Date (2010)
Due Date, 2010. Directed by Todd Phillips. Starring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis. SYNOPSIS: A highly strung father-to-be is forced to hitch a ride with an aspiring actor on a road trip in order to make it to his child’s birth on time. Director Todd Phillips looks to be getting comfortable, and if he […]
Movie Review – Dinner for Schmucks (2010)
Dinner for Schmucks, 2010. Directed by Jay Roach. Starring Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Jemaine Clement and Bruce Greenwood. SYNOPSIS: An ambitious young exec stumbles across the perfect candidate for his superiors’ dinner for idiots. Schmuck [shmuhk] –noun, Slang. an obnoxious or contemptible person. From the Yiddish ‘shmok’; literally, a dick. The schmucks in […]
