CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV)(2001)
"it's a great, heart wrenching opening episode"
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is arguably one of the best American TV shows airing at the moment, and certainly one of the most original. Now in its tenth season and tenth year and creating two spin-off series, it is a show you are likely to have heard of even if you are not a f...
Ondine(2010)
"Neil Jordan's delivers a quaint mixture of small-town comedy, serious fantasy thriller in Ondine"
Neil Jordan's delivers a quaint mixture of small-town comedy, serious fantasy thriller in Ondine. Colin Farrell brings his hangdog charm to a sad divorced, alcoholic fisherman eking out a slim living in a corner of Ireland. One day his usually empty net is filled by a beautiful dying girl (A...
Shank(2010)
"Every character is violent, misogynist or just plain irritating"
Shank may be the worst movie I’ve ever seen. If there was any justice in the world, this film would be incarcerated in concrete and dumped in the Atlantic Ocean with a warning label that reads “Warning: poisonous cinematic waste”. Director Mo ...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo(2010)
"Sweden’s answer to Dan Brown delivers a dark and disturbing thriller"
It seems like every week there’s a new literary phenomenon being turning into a flick for the silver screen – first came Harry Potter, followed by the Dan Brown books, and culminating most recently with the second instalment of the Twilight series. However, whilst inevitabl...
The Wolfman(2010)
"Weaving and Hopkins managed to steal the show with their immense acting talents"
The Wolfman is a remake of the 1941 horror film of the same name. The central plot follows Lawrence Talbot (Benicio del Toro), a man who re-unites with his father (Anthony Hopkins) after learning his brother has been brutally murdered. Talbot, who has had a distant relationship with his family, d...
The Lovely Bones(2010)
"Haunting in every way, it is a great film that could or should have been magnificent"
After taking on the epic challenges of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and a remake of King Kong, director Peter Jackson turned his attentions to a smaller project, an adaptation of Alice Sebold's best selling novel of life, death and the after-life, The Lovely Bones. I have not read the novel, so ...