Comedy

Why Don’t You Play In Hell?

Japanese director Sono Sion is back to his delirious best in this frenetic free-wheeling ode to filmmaking and yakuza cinema. Two feuding gangs look to settle their lingering scores in… Read More
Borgman

Taking its cue from Pasolini’s Theorem, Alex Van Warmerdam’s absurdly comic psycho drama Borgman sees the eponymous antagonist (Jan Bijvoet) literally emerge from the ground and into the home of… Read More
Witching & Bitching

Alex de la Iglesia goes hell-for-leather with this riotous horror comedy that will likely draw parallels with Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk Till Dawn for its heist-turned-horror switcheroo narrative. Hugo Silva… Read More
Escape From Tomorrow

THe story behind Randy Moore’s Escape From Tomorrow proves infinitely more interesting that what ends up on screen. Shot guerrilla-style without permission in Disneyland and Disneyworld, it is a nightmarish… Read More
The Internship

The world is tiring of Vince Vaughn, and his reluctance to change up or expand his schtick isn’t helping his case much. Here he re-teams with his Wedding Crashers cohort… Read More
This Is The End

A strangely self-reflexive, self-indulgent, yet admittedly rather successful and repeatedly amusing comedy caper that sees some of the most popular comedians currently working in Hollywod today playing themselves at the… Read More
My Lucky Star

After really enjoying Zhang Ziyi’s first foray into production, Sophie’s Revenge, I was certainly interested to see her return to the character for a second outing. However, My Lucky Star… Read More
Bad Milo

An intriguing premise is left under-developed in this lacklustre horror comedy that has aspirations towards Joe Dante and Frank Henenlotter. Ken Marino’s irritible bowel syndrome proves to be caused by… Read More
2 Guns

Incredibly convoluted but surprisingly entertaining buddy action comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington as undercover agents from rival agencies, both out to crack a drug cartel who are initially… Read More
Before Midnight

The third installment in Richard Linklater’s series of films examining the evolving relationship between Jesse and Celine proves to be the best yeat, and one of the year’s most accomplished… Read More
REVIEW: Before Midnight

Richard Linklater and his stars/co-writers Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy revisit Jesse and Celine once more in the third installment of their ever-improving Before franchise. It is fair to say… Read More
Before Sunset

Set nine years after the events in Vienna, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) meet again in Paris, where Jesse is giving a reading from his new novel –… Read More
Pain & Gain

I sincerely believe that one day Michael Bay will make a masterpiece. To-date I still believe that The Rock is his best film. I know that Bad Boys 2 has… Read More
Sixteen Candles

One of the top tier John Hughes efforts that somehow passed me by until now. Molly Ringwald plays Samantha, and it’s her sixteenth birthday – but her entire family seems… Read More
City of Women

This late colour entry from Federico Fellini sees Marcello Mastroianni play a philandering womaniser who follows hs latest conquest off a train and into a dreamworld populated solely by women.… Read More
Prince Avalanche

After a troubling daliance in stoner comedy, David Gordon Green returns to the more independent, thoughtful material on which he made his name. Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch play maintenance… Read More
Mr. Go

When her grandfather dies, 15-year-old Wei Wei (Xu Jiao) inherits his circus, particularly their star attraction: a baseball-playing gorilla, Ling Ling. Unfortunately, she also inherits his huge gambling debts and… Read More
White House Down

Roland Emmerich’s take on the “Die Hard in the White House” action set-up that was visited earlier this year in Antoine Fuqua’s Olympus Has Fallen, is a far bigger, louder… Read More