I’m a Knocked Up fan. I had it on my iPod for years and ended up watching it approximately 400 times, so it’s fair to say that I wasn’t against This Is 40 from the outset. That said, I’ve been a little perplexed by the [...]
Denzel Washington is an actor who, in my opinion, is worth the admission price alone. Admittedly, I didn’t bother going to see Safe House cos it looked shite, but he has such natural screen charisma that, even in sloshy films like Unstoppable, he’s a wonderful [...]
I really enjoyed The Hurt Locker and was certainly a member of its team at the Oscars where it clashed with Avatar. It had a sophistication that I don’t usually associate with action movies (and we all know how much I hate explosions). So, I [...]
Words by John Hewitt Tarantino is not a director unaccustomed to racially driven stories, having tackled blaxploitation in Jackie Brown and Jews in Nazi Germany in Inglourious Basterds. Like the latter, Django Unchained sees the genre iconography pulled apart and glued back together as a [...]
Given that I cry in almost every film and have an enormous repertoire of shower show tunes, you’d think I was the perfect customer for the producers of Les Mis. Emotionally fragile, impressionable, total hots for Fantine and Cosette- what more did I need? Well, [...]
