Results tagged “film review”
This week's Screen round-up watches Keanu Reeves threaten the world in The Day The Earth Stood Still, curls up with a fairytale called Inkheart and tips its hat to the star cast of Dean Spanley.
This week's Screen is smothered by penguins in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, rummages through the sci-fi bric-a-bric The Mutant Chronicles, and can't hear its own grumbling over the booming noises in Transporter 3.
This week's film guide peers through the window of the Oscar shop with Angelina Jolie, rolls in money with the cast of Four Christmases and discovers that even goldfish have more teeth than Hollywood satire What Just Happened.
In this week's Screen round-up, Black Hawk Down director Ridley Scott heads east again for spy drama Body of Lies, American Pie's Jason Biggs brings us My Best Friend's Girl, and Sam Rockwell saves the life of the latest Chuck Palahniuk adaptation, Choke.
This week's film guide thumbs through an off-colour joke book to take its mind off Max Payne, but is surprised to learn that Kevin Smith can now do relationships, and that it's going to have to book the rest of the year off to pal around with the Coen Brothers.
November's first film guide is less than pleased with Oliver Stone's kid-gloves treatment of a president, is bored of nativities and cop dramas, and wonders whether Tom Jones' Sex Bomb fits in a 1930's movie.
This week's film guide is being punched in the face by a grumpy James Bond, riding the subway with a footballing serial killer, and looking back at a bleak period in Britain and Ireland's histories.
COMEDY
Ghost Town (12A)
2/5
A couple of Christmases ago, I spent a fortune on a brilliant gift for a kid, only for the little toe-rag to spend the day playing with the wrapping paper.
COMEDY
Burn After Reading (15)
4/5
Everyone in Hollywood apparently wants an Oscar.
But – like a lifetime's supply of gin and a bumper pack of curly straws – it can do strange things to a person when it finally falls in their lap.
FAMILY
City of Ember (PG)
4/5
Just weeks before City Of Ember was due to hit the screens, someone opened their mouth and got people talking.
Unfortunately, it was about a completely different movie.
COMEDY
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (15)
3/5
According to the old Transylvanian saying, you can make a vampire less dangerous by filing down its teeth, but then it’d just be a guy who stays up late.
ACTION
Righteous Kill (15)
3/5
ROBERT De Niro and Al Pacino are screen legends.
Although previously appearing together in Godfather Part II and Heat the duo have only shared the same scene for about five minutes.
ACTION COMEDY
Tropic of Thunder (15)
4/5
How much jungle does a guy need to blow up to get a laugh around here?
