Jack and Jill – Review

Jack and Jill – Review

By FilmfellaDarren – 2/10

In funny people, Adam Sandler’s last half decent film, there is a moment where Sandler looks at a mock movie poster of himself ludicrously made up to be a mermaid, and makes a self-deprecating comment; it’s a scene where Sandler shows some self-awareness that his career has fallen from funny to farcical, the scene plays like a cry for help, in which Sander is calling out to directors to see what Paul Thomas Anderson once saw in Sandler when he cast him in the excellent Punch drunk love, and rescue him from low-rent fodder.

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Tis the season of the movie awards, fa la la la la la la la la.  Be it the Globes, the BAFTA’s or the Oscars, it’s all looking very shiny and elite, this time of year.  This is the period of the year where smarty pants films get fondled and caressed like the egos of the stars that populate them.  A time when the cream of cinema is celebrated and later adorned with statues of gold.  A time when the precious few emerge from the art they have smothered themselves in all year round and then vote in favour of the ‘truly deserving’.  A boring, boring time.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance – Review

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance – Review

Review by Filmfella Lozz – 3.5/10

The Original Ghost Rider movie came and went in 2007, was complete toss and everybody pretty much hated it. This leads me to believe that it must’ve done so well at the box office comparatively when considering profit; and this was the only reason a sequel was warranted. However, when you get these two guys, Nevaldine/Taylor of Crank fame on board, you maybe start thinking that if it’s done right, and that’s a very big IF, the whole idea of Ghost Rider might just be ok.  It is of course the era of re-imaginings, concepts taken in new directions etc; and it worked for Batman, so who knows. I now know. It was shit.

The Woman In Black – Review

The Woman In Black – Review

Review by FilmfellaHenry – 6/10

Eager to prove he’s more than just ‘that Potter bastard’, Daniel Radcliffe adopts a brooding Edwardian lead in director James Watkin’s new horror The Woman In Black. Recently widowed solicitor Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) is tasked with handling the estate of the late Alice Drablow in Northern England. Leaving behind his four year old son Joseph (Misha Handley), Kipps travels to the creepy deserted Eel Marsh House, where the local townsfolk give him a chilly reception. Endeavouring to complete his assignment, Kipps begins to suspect the old manse is not quite as uninhabited as he previously thought…

The Hits and Shits of… Nicolas Cage

The Hits and Shits of… Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage can act. He has proven to be a very competent character actor in some great movies. However, much the same as Samuel L. Jackson, his choice of movie and character is all over the place. I dunno if he flicks a coin or does a bit of Eeny Meeny Miny Moe or whether he is simply a pay check whore. But surely, at this stage of his career, he doesn’t need the money. Together with the fact, he still occasionally appears in good movies.

The Grey – Review

The Grey – Review

Review by FilmFella Lozz – 7.9/10

After the success of The A-Team in 2010, Joe Carnahan has teamed back up with leading man, Liam Neeson, for this grim wilderness tale. Where the A-Team and Smoking Aces delivered on the action, The Grey is much more focused on the psyche of man amongst men and the mental and physical attitude towards life and survival in the most tremendously difficult circumstances. This is a tough movie.

Liam Neeson is a man of very few words, living for no real reason, in an end of the earth job in middle of nowhere Alaska. He, along with the other scallywags, ex-cons and various bearded oil drillers alike, board a plane back to civilization, only for it to crash, leaving a handful of survivors.

Chronicle – Review

Chronicle – Review

By FilmFella Darren – 9/10

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have super-powers? Of course you have. You are part of a generation that grew up with superheroes as one of the main cornerstones of popular culture. As we have gotten older, films have worked harder to suggest there is a reality behind the fantasy: Chris Nolan’s Gotham city was far less stylized and much more realistic looking than previous Batman worlds; Kick-ass suggested that to be a superhero you don’t need superpowers at all – just a ballsy attitude and a high tolerance for pain; and The Watchmen presented a world for superheroes in which they were subjected to real problems in a film that made audiences consider how the world would change if Superheroes were real.

BAFTA 2012 Movie Art

The folks at BAFTA have gone and achieved a little bit of cool this year. They’ve done this by means of commissioning designer Eda Akaltun and StudioSmall to create some brochure covers for the Best Film nominees ahead of next Sunday’s ceremony. They’re pretty darn special lookin’.

My favourite is blatantly the one for Drive. What about you? Check them out below: