An early Christmas present…
Hugo is an orphaned boy living in the hidden spaces of Paris’s Gard De Nord train station, spending his days keeping the clocks running, thieving from a toy stall and trying to avoid the pompous guard keen to send him off to the orphanage. Puzzled by an old automaton his late father [...]
Laughkemia…
Joseph Gordon Levitt plays a late twenties radio producer going about a perfectly normal life when his world is rocked by the news that he has a rare form of cancer. The film charts his battle with the disease and the reactions of those around him, from stoner friend Seth Rogen, shell shocked girlfriend Bryce [...]
Marilyn and Me…
This film is the true account of a young man (Eddie Redmayne, earthy good looks, like a handsome Dean Gaffney) who finds himself a position as a runner on the film set of The Prince and The Showgirl, a bumbling rom com based around the pairing of Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh on [...]
Tucker and Dale are two well meaning sweet hilly billy types who are vacationing at their summer house at a remote lake. However camping not far by are a group of ‘straight out a slasher film’ teens who spook each other out with Friday the 13th style ghost stories. But when one of their friends [...]
Ewan McGregor plays a lonely graphic designer who shortly after his mother dies is hit with a double whammy of learning that his dad is gay and has terminal cancer. Befriending a quirky actress he begins to face his own commitment fears and the sets out to start a romance.
I always approach indie films with [...]
A no fun home run.
Based on a true story, Brad Pitt plays a baseball manager facing hard times at his lowly club due to finances. However when he teams up with statistician Jonnah Hill they implement a radical theory based on logarithms and equations that begins to revolutionise the game.
To be honest I only really [...]