I love Amy Adams. I loved her in Enchanted, I loved her in Talledega Nights, I loved her in Junebug and in Charlie Wilson’s War. The fact that she’s from small-town Colorado has something to do with it. The fact that she’s outrageously talented does too. I so love Amy Adams, I’d watch her in […]

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I find myself at that stage of life where I’m looking back a lot at the choices I made that brought me to this place. I’m still pissed, for instance, that I didn’t spend my twenties as a tennis pro, repeatedly winning the Australian Open - but that’s the bitter-sweet joy of retrospective dreaming; I gave up tennis when I was eleven. 
Anyway, […]

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O-M-G! I was heading for University at almost exactly the same time as Brian Jackson (an earlier, weedier incarnation of James McAvoy) in the Brit movie Starter for 10.
So I recognised the gauche awkwardness of the student parties, the worthiness of the constant political campaigning outside the Student Uni, the strangely inept sexual fumblings, the […]

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OK, let me start by saying; 1) Heath Ledger is as good as the hype and 2) the latest three hour Batman movie isn’t - at least not quite.
Batman may have hoped to inspire goodness in mankind, but at the start of Christopher Nolan’s latest saga, it’s kind of backfired. Vigilantes and bad guys alike have taken […]

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Seven year old Simón sees dead people. Or to be more precise, he sees the ghosts of the former residents of a creepy Spanish orphanage in Juan Antonio Bayona’s accomplished debut, El Orfanato. But when Simón vanishes one sunny afternoon, it’s not clear whether his disappearance is accidental, or whether - as his pannicked mother Laura begins […]

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Digital Media Wire reports that the Vancouver-based company Movieset has received a ZAR11.4 million investment from the British Columbia Discovery Fund as part of a ZAR38 million round of financing, led by Rho Canada. The tecchie geek in me rejoices! -MovieSet offers behind-the-scenes video of films in production.
Check out for example, the star interviews from Battle in […]

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When Amazing Grace - Michael Apted’s rich bio-pic of the political campaigner William Wilberforce - was released last year (to coincide with the bi-centennial of the end of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade) it came in for the usual braying criticism from the liberal media.
The New York Times for instance, claimed that the movie “prettifies” the slave trade […]

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Scrappy tyke James McAvoy butches up nicely in Wanted, the first American movie by Kazakh director Timur Bekmambetov. Bekmambetov previously made the partly-brilliant, partly-poor Night Watch / Day Watch vampire movies and this latest opus is equally patchy; sometimes it is edge-of-the-seat thrilling, other times it’s just dozy. Although it’s apparently based on a comic book, for […]

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There was so much hype and so many expectations raised before the launch of Ridley Scott’s Hannibal movie back in 2001, that at the time, it probably couldn’t have failed to disappoint. I don’t remember enjoying it greatly back then, but I watched it again last night, and I have to say, I got much more out […]

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My friend Jan will not eat onions nor watch a movie that features Tom Hanks. And whilst I really don’t get the onion thing, I admit I’ve often been with him when it comes to the squeaky Mr. Hanks. But times are a-changing. After last year’s Da Vinci Code, in which he wasn’t too bad, then the really […]

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