At times, this summer time, teen romance coming-of-age story is a little bit of a sweet n’ sickly affair. A mopey teenager spends his time moping around a beach town moping about his Mum and Step-Dad. Then the mopey teenager meets another mopey teenager and develop a holiday romance of sorts. […]

“It’s going to be okay,” is something of a recurring phrase that is uttered by several characters in Paul Greengrass’ (United 93 and Bourne Identity franchise) latest film, Captain Phillips. Despite the fact that things are most definitely not going to be okay, and the fact that a Somalia Pirate […]

The most striking thing about Prisoners is that almost everyone can be considered a bad person. In the film, where the two young daughters of Dover and Grace Keller (Hugh Jackman and Maria Bello) and their neighbours, Franklin and Nancy Birch (Terrence Howard and Viola Davis) go missing, there is […]

Every few years, a film comes out that acts as a cautionary tale about the anonymity of internet chat rooms and the inherent dangers that come with them. These films usually suck,  they explore the issue but never add anything interesting or insightful. It is that these films are works of […]

Within the next week the latest addition to William Shakespeare’s timeless classic, Romeo & Juliet, will hit cinemas across the world. It would seem that we cannot go much further than ten years before releasing a later, newer and hopefully better version of Bill’s wondrous love story. However, with the […]

Lonesome Jim is a little known indie gem by Steve Buscemi. It centres on perpetually depressed twenty-seven year old Jim (Casey Affleck) as returns to his small town home in Indiana after having failed as a Novelist in New York. What works well about Lonesome Jim is that Steve Buscemi […]

Have you ever wanted to see what would happen if you put a drug dealer, a stripper, a runaway and a virgin into a RV for a “vacation” in Mexico? Then ‘We’re the Millers’ is perfect for you. ‘We’re the Miller’s follows David Clark (Jason Sudeikis) as a small-time drug […]

Five minutes into this charming production based solely on the flirtatious chemistry between Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter, you’ll be asking yourself why no one has ever heard of or praised ‘Conversations with Other Women’ (2005). Most reminiscent of what we now know as ‘Before’ trilogy (Before Sunrise/Before Sunset/Before […]