The Review at the End of the Universe
Tim Burton’s Big Eyes tells the story of painter Margaret Keane (Amy Adams) as she tries to climb out of the shadow of her overpowering husband Walter (Christoph Waltz) when he claims credit for her work. Burton’s track record with live action film making has been spotty at best in the past few years so…
Will Gluck’s Annie is a modern retelling of the Little Orphan Annie story. This isn’t something I’m an expert in but as usual wikipedia provides. I’m actually surprised that it took this long to do a modernisation of this character with all the other reboots and remakes flying around. The story here is that Annie…
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb marks the third (and possibly final) installment in this series and serves as one of the final performances for the late legend that is Robin Williams. Mickey Rooney -a relation of mine, true story- makes his final appearance here too. It’s really amazing that they’ve managed to…
Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children offers commentary on the role of digital communication in the lives of a group of parents and their children as they try to navigate their various relationships. This is probably the right time for a film like this to come out given the modern world’s reliance and addiction to…
Theodore Melfi’s St. Vincent is the story of a young boy named Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher) bonding with his crotchety old neighbour Vincent (Bill Murray). First of all, anyone expecting the comedy that was trailed really won’t get that. This is another example of a film being completely different to what was advertised. Most of the…
Jude Law stars as Captain Robinson in Black Sea, the story of a submarine crew tasked with searching the depths of the Black Sea in order to loot a submarine rumoured to be loaded with tons of gold. The film starts out really well for the most part. Captain Robinson seems to be a sympathetic…
Michael Bond’s creation Paddington gets the big screen live action treatment in this well put together family film chronicling Paddington Bear’s first days in the City of London. Paddington is something of an adaptation of the first stories starring the titular bear but it’s been so long since I read them that I really can’t…
The film adaptation of the final Hunger Games novel Mockingjay begins here with part 1 of a 2 part story set to round off the series. Doing things this way is becoming something of a trend among Young Adult franchises to pretty mixed results thus far. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pioneered this approach…
The Drop is a mob thriller where Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) and his cousin Marv (James Gandolfini) work in a bar where money drops are used to discretely give cash to local gangsters. They find themselves at the center of a robbery investigation that stands to uncover some truths about the neighbourhood that people want…
Say When (or Laggies as it’s known in the US) is the story of a woman in her 20s who faces a quarter life crisis and escapes her life to reassess her priorities. The most irritating thing about this film is that it had a lot of potential to be something. Being a directionless 20…
