Category Archive: film review

The Purge fails on all accounts

The Purge is horrifically underwhelming, according to Somethingyousaid.com’s Tenley Nordstrom.  It was the first time that I went full-on asshole in a movie theatre. I couldn’t help myself. A last-minute decision to see… Read More

Review: The Place Beyond The Pines

The Place Beyond the Pines follows on from Derek Cianfrance’s heartbreaker, Blue Valentine. This dark, brooding romantic tale once again features Ryan Gosling trying to make ends meet with his estranged ladyfriend. The best… Read More

Drift makes our attention, well, drift

Drift begins with a young family of three running away from their misogynistic, drunkard father/husband and driving interminably to end up in Western Australia’s Seacliff. They set up camp there in the small country… Read More

Marion, Let’s Sing About Sex

I thought Song For Marion would be the kind of movie I’d recommend my mother watched with her girlfriends as it seemed to be a happy-go-lucky tale about “climbing over the mountain” with… Read More

The Tenderness of Rust And Bone

Carol Bowditch checked out Rust and Bone, a harrowing tale about overcoming major adversity and the trials of real, modern relationships.  Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) is self-sufficient and has a new woman to fulfill his needs every… Read More

Performance For The Mature At Heart

Carol Bowditch got her classical on to check out Performance: The film’s premise is based around a string quartet who are still performing together after 25 years of music and friendship. The beloved… Read More

Oz can put a smile on your dial

Josephine Rozenberg-Clarke checks out the latest movie to be inspired by L.Frank Baum’s novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: I should start this review by revealing two things about me: 1. I am… Read More

The year’s most plain bonkers movie

Neil Martin has a look at John Dies at The End. It takes him on quite the ride: This has got cult classic written all over it. Cult horror movie director Don Coscarelli (Phantasm,… Read More

Revisiting: Bottle Rocket

I recently visited my charming little local cinema to see the film Moonrise Kingdom by director Wes Anderson. I eagerly await a new Anderson film like a birthday as he is responsible for… Read More