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Reel Weekend | 07 March 2008
Pete Travis' Vantage Point is very much a post-24 action thriller, with jerky handheld camera work, sweaty FBI agents running around and a real-time urgency to the plot. It focuses on the attempted assassination of the US president, played by William Hurt, at an anti-terrorism summit in Spain, and we see it from the perspective of eight individuals, including Dennis Quaid's secret service agent, Sigourney Weaver's newswoman and Forest Whittaker's camcorder-wielding tourist...
Movie Review: Margot at the Wedding
Reel Weekend | 29 February 2008
Margot at the Wedding, starring Nicole Kidman, Jack Black and Jennifer Jason Leigh, is a dark comedy written and directed by Noah Baumbach, whose previous movie The Squid and the Whale proved a breakthrough indie hit in 2005. Kidman plays Margot, a successful writer but emotional wreck who comes to visit her estranged sister Pauline after she hears she is about to marry a deeply unsuitable man she has only just met...
Reel Weekend | 29 February 2008
David Cronenberg has brought us many horrifying images over the years – from James Woods inserting pulsating video cassettes into his stomach to Jeff Goldblum transforming into a gloopy insect. But few are as disturbing as the sight of Viggo Mortensen's bits flapping around during the much-discussed bathhouse fight in Eastern Promises, which hits DVD shelves this week. This is the Canadian director's follow up to A History of Violence, and like that film, mixes a mainstream thriller plot with his own distinctive style.
Movie Review: The Boss of it All
Reel Weekend | 29 February 2008
The Boss of it All is definitely a comedy, but director Lars von Trier goes out of his way to subvert the genre. The first thing we hear is the director's voice, telling us exactly what kind of film we're going to be watching, and he pops up a bit later to inform us when we're at the halfway point. He also directs using a process called Automavision, in which a computer randomly chooses the camera angles, meaning that at any point, characters will disappear out of frame and sentences will be cut off in mid-flow. Police Academy this ain't...
Reel Weekend | 22 February 2008
It was inevitable that John Rambo would make his own comeback. Confusingly, this fourth movie in the series that started with First Blood is simply called Rambo, but that's the most unusual thing about it. Elsewhere, it's business as usual as our meat-headed killing machine takes on another bunch of interchangeable democracy-hating foreign scum. In this case, it's the Burmese military…
Reel Weekend | 22 February 2008
Aussie horror flick Black Water takes the classic victims-in-a-single location setting and gives it a fresh spin. A trio of holiday makers on an outback expedition make the unfortunate decision to hire a boat to head upriver into remote jungle. When their boat is upturned by a huge crocodile, our heroes clamber to apparent safety. Unfortunately, they're miles from civilisation, and the only way out is to get back in the water...
Movie Trailers | 20 February 2008
Director Roland Emmerich takes some poetic license with history as he brings his vision of pre-historic adventure to cinemas this spring. Cavemen with American accents, giant sabretooth tigers and huge battle sequences featuring hundreds of rampaging mammoths may not be an accurate portrayal of the past, but it might be an entertaining one.
Movie Trailers | 18 February 2008
George A. Romero reboots his own series of zombie movies with this low-budget telling of a bunch of college friends trying to get to safety after hearing the news that the dead are returning to life. Told in a similar "found footage" style to Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project, Diary of the Dead looks set to satisfy the crowds of old Romero fans while bringing his apocalyptic vision to a whole new audience.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Movie Trailers | 18 February 2008
Harrison Ford returns to one of the roles that made him famous, and one of the most iconic screen heroes of all time, in this fourth entry in the Indiana Jones saga. Despite being in his 60s, Ford still looks the part in his hat and whip combo and the film looks set to deliver all the artifact chasing fun you expect from a Jones movie. Steven Spielberg returns to the director's chair to oversee the proceedings...
Reel Weekend | 15 February 2008
Be Kind Rewind is the latest film from French maverick Michel Gondry, who previously brought us Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and last year's The Science of Sleep. Jerry (Jack Black) and Mike (Mos Def) are given the job of looking after a crumbling VHS-only video store when owner Mr Fletcher (Danny Glover) goes away for a few days. Unfortunately, Black gets magnetised while committing an act of environmental terrorism, and somehow wipes every tape in the store. So the bungling duo take it upon themselves to remake the movies using just themselves and an old camera...
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