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Movie Review: All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
Reel Weekend | 15 February 2008
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is the latest in a persistent line of slasher movies hitting our screens, arriving some 30 years since the first Halloween and proving that there's life in the formula yet. Mandy Lane is the gorgeous but chaste new girl at school, and in an attempt to fit in with her peers, agrees to go on a weekend away with them. But someone wants Mandy all to himself, and before long is picking off his rivals...
Movie Review: There Will Be Blood
Reel Weekend | 07 February 2008
There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, is serious cinema – two-and-a-half hours of weighty drama, moral complexity and epic storytelling. Director Paul Thomas Anderson, who previously brought us the likes of Boogie Nights and Magnolia, makes his intention clear from the very start, opening with an entirely dialogue-free 15-minute prologue that will really sort the men from the boys among audiences...
Reel Weekend | 07 February 2008
There seems to be an unofficial rule in Hollywood that every year a small unassuming indie movie does battle with the big budget goliaths for box office and Oscar success. Last year it was Little Miss Sunshine, and this year it falls upon the slender shoulders of Juno. This witty comedy drama is the surprise fifth Oscar nominee for Best Picture this year, and more than holds its own against its more high profile rivals. It's the story of a 16-year-old girl from a small town who upon the discovery that she has fallen pregnant decides she must find more responsible parents for her as-yet unborn child...
Movie Review: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Reel Weekend | 07 February 2008
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly tells the extraordinary true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the one-time editor of the French edition of Elle magazine, who in 1995 suffered a stroke that left him entirely paralysed except for his left eye. The film is directed by painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel, and adopts an unconventional narrative technique to depict this remarkable story of triumph over tragedy.
Reel Weekend | 01 February 2008
Ever since the White House was blown to bits in Independence Day a decade ago, Hollywood has tried to outdo itself with ever-more spectacular scenes of urban devastation. We've had giant monsters, aliens, earthquakes, asteroids and tidal waves, and with Cloverfield, we return to the giant monster. Luckily this isn't a retread of Roland Emmerich's woeful Godzilla remake, but Lost creator JJ Abrams' hip, handheld take on the traditional monsterfest...
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Reel Weekend | 01 February 2008
This week we've got a bumper selection of goodies to give away to celebrate the release of Doug Liman's sci-fi blockbuster Jumper. Three lucky entrants will each win a whole host of booty and all you need to do to enter is tell us the answer to one straightforward question. Click on the player above for more details and then email us with the correct answer to be in with a chance of scoring this prize.
Movie Review: Things We Lost in the Fire
Reel Weekend | 01 February 2008
Susanne Bier's Things We Lost in the Fire once again provides Halle Berry with a proper meaty dramatic role. In this sombre grief-fest, Halle plays a recently widowed woman who strikes up an unusual relationship with a friend of her late husband, a recovering drug addict played by Benicio Del Toro. It doesn't make for a particularly cheery night out, but it is an impressively serious look at loss and redemption.
Reel Weekend | 01 February 2008
3:10 to Yuma is a remake of the 1957 Glenn Ford classic, and stars Christian Bale as a simple farmer who takes the job of escorting notorious villain Russell Crowe to a railway station to await the train of the title. While Jesse James and Seraphim Falls were slow, dark, arty westerns, this film is cast in a more traditional mould. There's a clear-cut good guy and bad guy, a pretty wife who begs her man not to take the job, lots of grizzled men spitting in the dirt and a big climactic gun fight.
Movie Trailers | 31 January 2008
After a five-year break from directing, Matrix directors Andy and Larry Wachowski return to the big screen with their colourful interpretation of classic kids' cartoon Speed Racer. The neon colours and cartoon-inspired visuals definitely won't be to all tastes, but the film looks set to deliver hugely ambitious use of green screen and CGI racing scenes in order to tell the tale of one boy and his car.
Movie Trailers | 30 January 2008
Neil Marshall's action thriller sees a crack team of specialists, captained by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), fighting to save London, which has succumbed to an attack of the deadly Reaper virus. In order to curb the killer virus the team are dispatched to a 30-year quarantined country to battle with all manner of elements and live through a waking nightmare in the hope of finding a cure.
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