Cloverfield director Matt Reeves’s Let Me In (a remake of Swedish film Let The Right One In) tells the coming-of-age story of a withdrawn young boy, neglected by his mother and bullied by his peers. The boy’s name is Owen and he makes a connection with an equally reserved young girl who moves in next…
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Devil – Movie Review
For every fan, there’s that point in M. Night Shyamalan’s career where we decided that we’ve lost faith in his ability as writer/director extraordinaire. Some say The Village was the breaking point, others say Lady In The Water or The Happening. For me it was definitely the abysmal Last Airbender. When this movie came along…
Movie #41: The Orphanage
Guillermo Del Toro is becoming one of my favourite directors (and there’s an opening now that Shyamalan has moved to my bad books). I loved Hellboy II and Pan’s Labyrinth. While his 2007 film The Orphanage has more in common with his earlier ghost story, The Devil’s Backbone, than his more recent works, there’s no…
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World – Movie Review
From the opening credits, where the Universal Studios logo and theme are rendered in 8-bit graphics and sound, I knew that Edgar Wright (director of other geek-friendly satires such as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) was going to do a great job with this movie. The premise was totally fun and drool-worthy on…
Movie #32: Ponyo
One of the qualities you can find abundant in films by Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki is imagination, not just in story-telling, but visually as well. While Ponyo is clearly inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”, it is still full of fresh wonder and enchantment. Sosuke is a 5-year-old boy living in a…
Movie #30: Pirate Radio
Originally titled “The Boat That Rocked” in the UK, Pirate Radio was a very surprising movie. For one, it has a cast populated with many of the biggest names in recent British comedy — you may not recognize them, but you should. The list includes: non-Brits Philip Seymour Hoffman (not always a funny guy, but…
Movie #23: Vantage Point
What if 24 took place not over 24 hours, but 24 minutes? And what if instead of a single viewpoint at a time, we got multiple perspectives on the same event. That’s the central premise behind Vantage Point. When the President of the United States (a.k.a. the POTUS) is shot by a sniper’s bullet during…
Movie #21: The Time Traveler’s Wife
Whoever thought that romance and science fiction could be blended so well together? Even though nobody’s trying to prevent robots from taking over the world or stop a global calamity, I think it’s genius that The Time Traveler’s Wife takes a classic sci-fi device such as people traveling in time and uses it to tell…
Salt – Movie Review
From the first moment you see Angelina Jolie in her blonde hair and office clothes she already looks like someone in disguise. That kicks off the central mystery of this movie and its main character. Of course, I have no idea why director Phillip Noyce preferred instead to start with scenes of Evelyn Salt being…
