[photopress:Thunder.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Totally tropical taste
It’s all change at Picturenose – Brussels-based journalist and critic Jeremy Slater joins the fold, with his review of Ben Stiller’s comedy epic…
As James pointed out in his recent review of What Just Happened? (2009) there is nothing quite like a great spoof of our favourite fun factory, Hollywood, for the real film [...]
[photopress:valkyrie.jpg,thumb,alignleft]The good German?
Ever since The Usual Suspects (1994), director Bryan Singer and writer Christopher McQuarrie have seemed more than capable of delivering the good stuff, when they’re together.
Further to that point, along with co-writer Nathan Alexander, who is also on board for Valkyrie (2008), and whose first film this is, they also seem to be [...]
[photopress:Tom.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Cruise controls
A double first for me. The first first (?) is that I am writing a review for the first time in a good long while. I’m sure James will thank me for the input in his own inimitable way. The second is that I am reviewing a film that stars Tom Cruise that I [...]
[photopress:mi3.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Best of Impossible worlds?
Domesticity beckons for everyone’s favourite ’super-spy’ Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) – he has turned his back on active duty and is now training new IMF (Impossible Mission Force) agents.
The cover story for beautiful wife-to-be, Julia (Michelle Monaghan) is that he works in traffic-control management, but, on the night of their engagement [...]
[photopress:clerks.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Store men
In an effort to be absolutely bang up-to-date here on Picturenose, I thought it would be a good idea to review a movie I managed to miss for a good 14 years. I don’t think it necessarily matters, though. You could see it for the first time tomorrow and it would be certain [...]