The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is the final instalment in the ludicrously inflated Hobbit trilogy, a series that has vividly exposed many of director Peter Jackson’s filmmaking flaws particularly his long-winded story-telling and poor character development. The first Hobbit film, An Unexpected Journey was noisy, silly, featured too many embarrassing attempts at comedy and even had a
Read moreJason Reitman seems fascinated with the spiritual emptiness of contemporary America. With Up In The Air he captured the soullessness of corporate America through George Clooney’s Ryan Bingham a man who sacked people for a living and spent his life in the limbo of airports and hotels. With his latest film Men, Women and Children Reitman attempts to articulate the
Read moreExodus: Gods and Kings sounds disturbingly like the title of a violent video game and some people may feel this is what they have experienced after seeing Ridley Scott’s cgi-heavy take on the story of Moses. The obvious point of comparison for this film is Cecil De Mille’s 1956 biblical epic The Ten Commandments and like that film Exodus: Gods
Read moreDisney/ Marvel animated film Big Hero 6 is exciting, energetic holiday entertainment for youngsters who love robots, cute characters, superheroes and tech-driven thrills. Based on the Marvel comic of the same name, Big Hero 6 features 14-year-old kid genius aptly named Hiro (Ryan Potter) who, despite a vast knowledge of science and technology, prefers to spend his time in robot
Read moreLet’s Be Cops is a major source of disappointment. It had most of the credentials for a mega turkey: a buddy cop piss-take storyline and a Wayans a in a lead role but astonishingly the film exceeds all expectations by being mediocre. It’s probably because Lets Be Cops borrows so liberally from other films such as Beverley Hills Cop, Stripes
Read moreFrom Day of the Locust’s nightmarish vision of a perverse and corrupt Hollywood to Mulholland Drive’s dream of stardom turned nightmare, many films have explored the bizarre and disturbing underbelly of Hollywood. David Cronenberg’s latest film, Maps To The Stars explores this world through the director’s typically bizarre and unsettling vision. In Cronenberg’s nihilistic take on tinsel town, Hollywood is
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