Thriller Movie Reviews

Cinema Movie Review: The Brass Teapot (2012)

May

2013

Strange brew Ramaa Mosley’s first feature film The Brass Teapot (2012) is a genius idea, but does not seem able find its own identity. The basic concept of the film is that a young married couple, Alice and John (Juno Temple and Michael Angaraino) are down on their luck – Alice is unable to find ...

Cinema Movie Review: Call Girl (2012)

Mar

2013

Tricks of the trade The cinema coming from Sweden these days is anything but subdued. Mikael Marcimain’s first feature film, Call Girl (2012), is based on the actual events surrounding a 1970s prostitution controversy within Sweden’s political and law enforcement systems. To show that the film hit a little too close to home for some ...

Cinema Movie Review: Night Train to Lisbon (2013)

Mar

2013

Picturesque but lacking pace I’ve never read a book that was so inspiring it caused me to leave my job, board a train, and interview people for the better part of a week. However, I have seen a film or two that made me yearn to throw my computer out the nearest window, grab my ...

Cinema Movie Review: Sightseers (2012)

Mar

2013

Natural born killers? Tina (Alice Lowe) and Chris’s (Steve Oram) idea of a romantic and erotic holiday is loading up their caravan and touring the innards of England for a week. Some of the titillating stops on this self-proclaimed ‘erotic odyssey’ include tram museums, pencil museums, and viaducts. Although these places might not stir your ...

Movie Review: Looper (2012) 2

Nov

2012

Looping the loop In 2074, it’s hard to kill a man and get away with it. It’s even harder to dispose of a body. But the mob of 2074 finds a way to deal with its victims – in the same year, time travel becomes a reality, so the mob then sends whoever they want ...

DVD Movie Review: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

Nov

2012

Oh no, here comes The Mummy – let’s all walk away a bit faster… With yet another rejuvenation now threatened for The Mummy (with Total Recall (2012) director Len Wiseman set to helm for a summer 2014 release) a quick look back at the final installment of the previous sand-shifting shenanigans franchise.

Movie Review: Dans la maison (In the House) (2012)

Oct

2012

House breaker During the pre-generic sequence of the film, one is happily surprised by François Ozon’s new opus: one is stricken by the sobriety of the images, and there seems to be someone who has finally dared to direct Fabrice Luchini, instead of letting him ‘Luchinize’ all over the place. But alas! As soon as ...

The Perfect Host (2010)

Jul

2012

Party animal Segue-ing nicely off the back of James’s Big Night (1996) review – a film that’s been on my to-watch list since he first told me about it – I bring you another piece that plays on the almost timeless premise that everyone at the dinner table is not all they are cracked up ...

Oldeuboi (Oldboy) (2003)

Jul

2012

Korea in killing Wow. Just simply, wow. This is something of a white-knuckle ride in cinematic terms. From the gentle rumble and gradual change of pace at the beginning of the ride, when you’re slightly nervous and anticipation tingles on your tongue like the taste of brushed steel, to the sudden realization that you’re about ...

The Awakening (2011)

May

2012

Cold, but not chilling It is a somewhat vexed genre these days, the ghost film – gone is the time when shivers could be raised by phantoms going ‘woo, woo’, hence the works of Susan Hill (The Woman in Black, which was filmed succesfully in 1989 with a screenplay by Nigel Kneale and also in ...

Cecil B. Demented (2000)

May

2012

Deviously demented John Waters is a name that is unmistakably associated with kitsch and trash cinema. Obsessed since early childhood with violence and gore, Waters still manages to combine such elements with playful irony in his low-budget, always Baltimore-based films. Having started as an underground artist, he was noticed by Hollywood after the success of ...