Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, John Ritter, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Lauren Graham, Bernie Mac Director: Terry Zwigoff Genre: Comedy Cert: 15 Released: 2003 Willie (Thornton) is a pretty bad Santa. He swears, he drinks, he pisses himself and he hates Christmas and kids. But he’s not a mall Santa for the good of his health […]
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Bruce Greenwood, Delroy Lindo, DJ Qualls Director: Jon Amiel Genre: Sci-Fi Cert: 12 Released: 2003 If any one of the disasters portrayed in movies actually hit our planet, I wonder how we’d all react. I wonder if the depicted reality would be anything like the event […]
Starring: Terry O’Quinn, Shelley Hack, Jill Schoelen, Charles Lanyer Director: Joseph Ruben Genre: Thriller Cert: 18 Released: 1987 You think you know someone? You might think twice after viewing Joseph Ruben’s (“Sleeping with the Enemy”, “The Good Son”, “Money Train”) low-budget thriller, “The Stepfather”. Released to little acclaim (it grossed $2.5m in 1987), this B-movie […]
Starring: William H Macy, Alec Baldwin, Maria Bello, Daniel J Nascarella, Ron Livingston Director: Wayne Kramer Genre: Drama Cert: 18 Released: 2003 Did they ever exist? Is the concept of “coolers” a clever invention of Hollywood? Are coolers about as real as Godzilla, the Blair Witch or a good Kevin Costner movie? Well if so, […]
Starring: Kenneth Brannagh, Robin Wright Penn, David Krumholtz, Lynn Redgrave Director: Michael Kalesniko Genre: Comedy Cert: 15 Released: 2000 I almost always expect Kenneth Brannagh to be donning a dodgy middle-ages moustache or flowery blouse whenever I see him on screen. His fascination with Shakespeare has been the bedrock of his career with successful productions […]
Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts Director: Steven Soderbergh Genre: Thriller Cert: 12 Released: 2001 We love throwing out the phrase “ensemble cast”. It gives you this great feeling of value for money if you go and see a movie with an ensemble cast. It normally means that you will […]
Starring: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton, Charles Dutton Director: David Koepp Genre: Thriller Cert: 15 Released: 2004 If, after watching “Secret Window”, someone asked you to offer a guess as to the writer of the novel the movie is based on, you would be hard pressed not to hazard a guess at […]
Starring: Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Monica Keena, Jason Ritter, Kelly Rowland Director: Ronny Yu Genre: Horror Cert: 18 Released: 2003 There’s nothing like a good slasher movie. And indeed, not to put too fine a point on it, this is nothing like a good slasher movie. Ok, I’ve jumped ahead of myself here. I don’t […]
Starring: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris Director: Sofia Coppola Genre: Drama Cert: 15 Released: 2003 In recent years I can’t recall a movie that has been talked about so little prior to release and so much afterwards, with perhaps the exception of “The Sixth Sense”. Sofia Coppola, who has struggled to recover […]
Starring: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Viola Davis, Jeremy Davies Director: Steven Soderberg Genre: Sci-Fi Cert: 15 Released: 2002 Not all successful directors are that prolific. Steven Soderbergh is bucking that trend with a string of hits – “Erin Brockovich”, “Traffic”, “Ocean’s Eleven” and “Solaris”. It’s now a case of checking your watch sometime in June […]
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