How Friends With Benefits and Crazy Stupid Love got me thinking about romance, relationships and reality…
I like romantic comedies; they are more than just a guilty pleasure for me. Sometimes you have to suspend your common sense or logical mind to enjoy them, but if you have a secret romantic inside you, let them out [...]
Cheer up, it’s not the end of the world…
Melancholia is a film about two very different stories colliding (which for the plot is actually rather fitting). One in which a deeply depressed Kirsten Dunst sets ablaze to the happiest day of her life (a wedding so dire it makes Eastenders look like an episode of [...]
Grand Theft Art House…
Ryan Gosling stars in this sensationally violent crime drama as a nameless character who by day is a Hollywood stuntman, whilst at night moonlights as a getaway driver for hire. His isolated existence is shattered when he falls for married neighbour Irene (Carey Mulligan) and becomes protective of both her and her [...]
The Domino (Pizzas) effect…
Smart mouthed dosser Jesse Eisenberg is a pizza delivery guy who falls foul of two dumb criminals who strap a ticking time bomb to his chest and give him 9 days in which to rob a bank for them or else they’ll blow him up. Enlisting the help of his best friend, [...]