Posts tagged film

The Avengers. It’s what we call ourselves. One of the better superhero films, that type of thing. The highly anticipated Avengers movie has blasted its …

‘ Can you pass me the cookies? They are apple flavoured, I doubt you’ re going to like them…’ They are people like you and …

A very thoughtful Canadian movie (deservedly nominated for Best Foreign Movie Oscar last year), about an Algerian immigrant who becomes a substitute teacher at a …

Passionate, romantic and all seen before. High School Musical heartthrob Zac Efron stars in Scott Hicks’ The Lucky One, an adaption of Will Ferress’ novel …

Nanni Moretti’s gentle, wayward movie has a wonderful central premise: A new Pope, Cardinal Melville (the one and only Michel Piccoli, magnificent), his very name …

Quite a surprising mashup parody of science fiction and American horror movies, The Cabin In The Woods grows on you as it turns out to …

The Fighter’s Ballad has won the fight. It has resisted five figure paychecks and survived years in Fringe theatre to become what it is now: …

The film “Bel Ami” is based on Guy de Maupassant’s novel, and directed by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod. The story takes place in France at …

Headhunters is cult movie material. Jo Nesbo’s novel has been transformed into film in his native Norway, but bears none of the usual traits of …

I love cultural differences. Especially between the liberal Western world and the good old regime bound Eastern bit. The stories about the wonderful “promised land” …