Archive for 'Movies'

Spiderman – The Musical (New York)

Receiving universal acclaim since opening last June, the two–act ‘Spiderman : Turn Off the Dark’ puts a Broadway spin on everybody’s friendly neighbourhood Spiderman. The 2 hour 45 musical offers a new take on the story [...]

The Hunger Games (2012)

I’m told that The Hunger Games is the latest craze sweeping teenage readers; despite this I was willing to sample the first film adaptation, directed by Gary Ross. In a drab, dystopian future, the nation of [...]

The Artist (2011)

The arrival of The Jazz Singer in 1927 turned the motion picture industry on its head; never before, or since, has the art-form undergone such a radical transformation. But it was not the smoothest of transitions. [...]

Hugo (2011)

“A film is a ribbon of dreams. The camera is much more than a recording apparatus; it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world that is not ours and that brings us [...]

The Descendants (2011)

The Descendants walks a fine line between comedy and drama. It seems unlikely to find very much humour in the story of a man who learns that his comatose wife has cheated on him, and yet [...]

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) As the memoirs of Dr John Watson often remind us, Sherlock Holmes doesn’t discriminate between important and trivial cases – all that matters is whether they’re interesting. But [...]

The Inbetweeners Movie (2011)

I can’t review The Inbetweeners Movie as an objective viewer, I really can’t. It’s not just that I bear a physical resemblance to Will McKenzie, British television’s most beloved pretentious twat. And it is quite a [...]