If there’s one thing Australians know how to do, it’s crime. Wait, that should have read, “if there’s one thing Australians know how to do on the big screen, it’s crime”. But this nation’s ability [...]
J.J. Abrams, a household name in the film industry seems like he has a long list of movie credits, but it's actually a rather small list. I knew J.J. Abrams directed the last Star Trek movie, and was behind the TV show Lost. I figured [...]
If there was one thing that struck me as I left the cinema after seeing the sublime Bridesmaids, it was "Thank god, finally a film that really depicts female friendship". Finally a film that shows how women interact with one ano [...]
Reading the press notes for writer/director Joe Cornish's feature debut, Attack the Block, and learning how the project came together is almost as much fun as watching the film itself. In very brief terms, the idea came to him after b [...]
Terence Malick’s audacious masterwork of cinematic poetry and extraordinary ideas is not for moviegoers who like speed, plain narrative or clearly marked arcs and chapters. It is not for those with short attention span [...]
There was a media brouhaha recently over a lawsuit filed by tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill focusing on the tat that The Hangover Part II character Stu wakes up with after a disremembered wild night in Bangkok. Whitmill claimed [...]
Remember Return to Oz, the sequel to The Wizard of Oz? The Hangover: Part II is a lot like that. It didn't need to be made, it makes the characters from the first film look like quantifiable douche-pagodas, and, inexplicably, it's [...]
Having being chosen as her best friend's (Maya Rudolph) maid of honor, lovelorn and broke Annie (Kristen Wiig) has to creatively navigate her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals with an eclectic group of bridesmaids (Rose By [...]
Review in a Hurry: At the stroke of midnight on a lonely Parisian street, Owen Wilson is transported from the present to the 1920's for witty banter with Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Salvador...as in Dali! While not the laughfest that [...]
High School students competing, in teams, in the country's largest poetry competition is the subject of a new documentary. It's called "Louder Than A Bomb."It's called a poetry slam and it's where over 600 teenag [...]
Remember the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies? Of course you do – they were massive hits the world over. Now here’s a tricky one: remember what actually happened in them? Well, there was a sea monster and some sword [...]
After comedy, if there's one genre that Indian film-makers have time and again tried to explore and master, it's horror. Just a week after Vikram Bhatt's horror product Haunted 3D, comes Ekta's spooky flick Ragini MMS. Whi [...]
The title RAGINI MMS was more than enough to grab your attention. It gave an impression that the film was based on an MMS scandal. Then, the promos made it clear that there was a paranormal element attached to the film as well. So is it a [...]
I was never onboard the Kristen Wiig train and never found her that funny on "Saturday Night Live," but surprise, surprise: now she has her first starring role in a new movie called “Bridesmaids” and suddenl [...]