Articles Posted in the " Film Reviews " Category

  • 7 Days in Havana

    With seven shorts directed by seven directors, 7 Days in Havana is less a feature film and more a collection of shorts unified only in celebrating an incredible city. If narrative isn’t really your thing then it’s well worth a look, even if it’s only to check out the beautiful, undulating Cuban women and some equally beautiful shots of Havana, but at over two hours long you’ll find yourself thinking that maybe A Mini-Break in Havana might have done the trick.


  • Bol Bachchan

    Bollywoods are always a laugh. There are great songs, overly expressive faces and some hilariously translated subtitles. It is a real shame then that a film trying to be a..


  • Magic Mike

    The premise of Magic Mike‘s is already attractive enough, as a film unapologetically tailored to the difficult-to-please female gaze. Cue our surprise when it outed itself as a skinfest with smarts. Beautiful production, gorgeous attention to detail and an interesting picture of the clash between reality and fantasy come together to make Channing Tatum less the butt of ‘dumb jock’ jokes and more just a very fine butt.


  • The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan

    Isn’t it about time they let people swear in Eastenders? Jeremy Paxman said f*ck on Newsnight, for that word’s sake – surely the green light for Dot Cotton to turn the air above Albert Square bright blue with an explicit stream of hitherto repressed profanity. Perhaps we’ll have to wait a while longer for that, but in the meantime there’s always The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan, a depressingly generic London crime caper that thinks it’s Lock Stock meets Goodfellas, but in reality more closely resembles the Sunday afternoon omnibus with added naughty words.


  • The Casserole Club

    Ask yourself a question. And answer it truthfully. Are you really excited about the idea of Fifty Shades of Grey becoming a movie? If your answer is yes then firstly,..



  • The Man Inside

    “Oh good! A British rapper making his film debut!” said nobody, ever. But stay that hand from killing – Ashley Thomas (‘Bashy’ to his fans) is actually pretty good in The Man Inside. Sadly, not everyone else is pulling their weight in this patchy underworld thriller.


  • Katy Perry: Part of Me

    A fly-on-the-wall glimpse into Katy Perry’s tour for the embarrassingly successful album Teenage Dream, what the film lacks in intellect and subtlety, it more than makes up for in heart, in a surprisingly engaging and charming look into the life of a popstar who is as starkly real as she is glossily artificial.


  • Detachment

    With a hiatus of well over a decade, Detachment is director Tony Kaye’s first feature film since American History X. A stylized indie exploration of the life of a high school substitute and the broken public school system, it’s visually very impressive and boasts a stellar cast being totally stellar. Unfortunately it insists on hurling misery at you like its disaffected teens throw the outdated resource materials in their underfunded library at each other (violently and often).


  • Storage 24

    How many possessions do you own? Enough to fill up whatever place you live in I guess. Perhaps the most shocking and unbelievable thing about low budget indie flick Storage..