Awards season ends yet again, and in honesty I’m not going to miss it. As the years go by I find myself less and less intrigued by the time of year just passed, it lacks any sort of novelty or tension anymore. The winner is oh so frequently predictable and the ceremonies continue to disappoint, no...

[xrr rating=3.5/5] The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 2008, 94mins, PG-13 Director: Mark Herman Writer (s): Mark Herman, John Boyne (novel) Cast includes: Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Jack Scanlon, Rupert Friend Release Date: 14th November 2008 Based on Irish author John Boyne’s excellent...

After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire (Anne Hathaway), is assigned by her mentor (Andre Braugher) to counsel the flights’ five survivors. When they share their recollections of the incident - which some say include an exlposion that the airline claims never happened - Claire is intrigued...

Tabitha. Shelby. Lisa. They’re longtime friends on seperate life paths. But they share a horrific destination when a seemingly innocent incident from they’re schooldays comes back to haunt them. Someonr want’s payback. Inside a stonewalled chamber of prision cells and mechanisms of...

Casey is being hunted by something that isn’t born. She must fight it, before it’s too late. Scary as shit. I had so many high expectations going into this movie as ive wanted to see it for ages. These expectations were not only met, but were exceeded beyond my belief. I’m not usually...

Release Date: February 24th, 2009 Running Time: 119 minutes The Film The French Connection contains one of the most celebrated chase sequences of all time. Decades later Ronin would find itself in the same category. However, many years before Director John Frankenheimer would shoot his DeNiro classic,...

[xrr rating=3.5/5] Gran Torino 2008, 116mins, R Director: Clint Eastwood Writer (s): Nick Schenk, David Johansson Cast includes: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Ahney Hur, Christopher Carley, Geraldine Hughes Release Date: 9th January 2009 Clint Eastwood is talent at its most raw and admirable, looking back...

Release Date: February 24th, 2009 Running Time: 104 minutes The Film Throughout my history of watching cinema three films revolutionized what it meant to craft a chase scene: Bullitt, Ronin, and of course, The French Connection. Embodying the grimy, issue-driven style of 70s filmmaking, and featuring...

For many of us, our first exposure to “nature” films and the wonders of the beautiful planet Earth, was compliments of Walt Disney. We traveled to the wild jungle, the openness of the African Plains and saw the beauty of melting snows and crystal clear rivers and rills, and the ecocosm of a place...

by JESS LYNDE This episode was not terribly interesting. In general, I appreciate the slower pacing of the series, especially when it gives us time to explore the psychological impacts on our characters, but this one was a little too slow for my tastes. Certainly, it makes sense that the Connor crew...