Movie Reviews

Life’s a Zoo.tv, a claymation satire of reality TV shows, follows seven animals, airdropped into a mansion in the depths of the Canadian wilderness. We follow the contestants in a Big Brother/Survivor mashup in which the animals must learn to live together in spite of their wildly different and contrasting...   [more]

It is generally considered that the job of a reviewer is to give a sober and balanced summary of the good and bad points of a movie and that gushing could be seen as being a little juvenile. But I have to start by saying – Wow, that was...   [more]

To tell you the truth I was really looking forward to seeing Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. This heightened anticipation usually makes me suspicious and brace myself for a let down. But I would have been wrong to do so.  This movie is AWESOME (well I thought so)! Not...   [more]

9 is a beautifully animated film with stunning visual effects that left me utterly bewildered. Featuring the vocal talents of Christopher Plumber, Martin Landau and Jennifer Connelly this Shane Acker directed fantasy depicts a world devoid of human life. But, what is this movie really about, I hear you...   [more]

With the plethora of “Rags To Riches” gangster flicks, comes a plethora of clichés. Some of these include “The Religious Mother”, the “Now We Have Money” montage,   the “This is The LAST Job” conversation, the “Drug Addicted Gang Member” and of course “The Quirky First Robbery Attempt”. Now the...   [more]

Teenager Makoto Konno is clumsy, disorganised and burdened with an insufferable little sister. As she is running late for school one morning an incredible twist of fate occurs that enables Makoto to leap through time. Whilst at first this might seem like an awesome opportunity (Makoto can go back...   [more]

Snow, nose candy, white gold...you know exactly what I’m talking about. When it was discovered it could be cooked into crack, cocaine single-handedly rocked (I did choose my wording carefully) the USA in the mid-80s to early 90s, causing a huge drug epidemic. This very epidemic was explored...   [more]

The late 1960s have been a topic of great interest of late. With the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock music festival, and also recent anniversary’s of key moments in this extraordinary time, such as the civil rights marches, and the rise to power of the Kennedy’s, this famous era has been...   [more]

I wanted to like Bleach: Memories of Nobody … I really did. I used to be a big fan of anime, and it made me feel all fuzzy inside with nostalgia when I received the screener DVD in the mail. But, sadly, I was left disappointed. But first, an introduction to...   [more]

Firstly, just wow. The Machine Girl is the most terrible, awesome, badass, lame, hilarious movie I have ever seen. A movie not for the faint hearted, this film probably spent 90% of its budget on red dye. There is literally so much blood in The Machine Girl that...   [more]

There’s been a spate of documentary films about the ugly underbelly of the American empire recently: Supersize Me, Soundtrack to War, the complete works of Michael Moore. Bigger Stronger Faster is another such, as is immediately obvious from the subtitle: The side effects of being American. Yep, ‘in a...   [more]

In the city of Tristan, where advanced technology works side by side with sorcery, people are under constant threat of demon attack. To protect the defenceless citizens, the Magic Administration Office employs skilled warriors known as Tactical Sorcerists. One day, a half-human, half-demon girl named Kapelteta Fernandez introduces Magic...   [more]

Let’s face it; a Jack Black film is hardly going to be unpredictable. One can imagine the pitch: loveable overweight loser (Black) falls for unobtainable girl, but (and here’s the twist boys and girls) how about this time we make him a caveman (how apt) who, with his best...   [more]

Since the late 90s, English overdubbing on Japanese Mangas has definitely lost its charm. There’s no tone in their voices anymore, thus, making characters overly monotonous. Devil May Cr V1 is quite possibly the over achiever at this. The whole anime lacks initial character development and steers...   [more]

I'll be honest. I have not watched many Thai movies in my time. Aside from the popular Ong Bak with Tony Jaa, my exposure to Thai films has been fairly limited ...as in non existent. But enough about me, let's get into the meat of this papaya salad of...   [more]

Before there was coastal beef, when Biggie was just getting started, before Tupac got got and just after Kurt Cobain popped a hole in his head is where the coming-of-age film, The Wackness takes place. The Wackness paints a mural of New York City in 1994, the year when...   [more]

There are films that you can watch idly, while giving yourself a pedicure or picking all of the orange M&M’s out of the packet, and films that grab you by the throat and command your complete attention. Waltz With Bashir, Ari Folman’s 2008 animated feature length documentary, is...   [more]

Is there nothing Hugh Jackman can’t do? He can sing, he can dance, he’s a nice guy and as Wolverine he gets to kick some butt and roar a lot. We’ll gloss over his Australia period as he more than makes up for that in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I...   [more]

In the British thriller Donkey Punch three vacationing girls and four sailors are stranded on a yacht where progressively nasty things happen. Watching this movie, we are also left feeling stranded by not only the tight quarters and claustrophobic camera work (advantages in similar, cruise-gone-wrong mysteries like Dead Calm) but...   [more]

During the early hours of August 7, 1974 Frenchman Philippe Petit and a small team of his countrymen, a New Yorker and an Australian were putting the final logistics together of a coup he had aspired to for ten years – to walk on a tightrope between the twin...   [more]