Coming Soon to a cinema near you

This spring you will see Little Red Riding Hood as you have never seen her before in an American horror loosely based on the popular children’s tale.

Starring Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman, the film tells the story of a village haunted by a werewolf, leaving Valerie (Red Riding Hood) and a hunter to track the beast done and kill him.

The film is being tipped as a successor to the Twilight series, and is set to continue the trend for movies aimed at tweens.

If you go down to the woods today….. don’t go alone!

Dvd review

The Last Exorcism

This spoof documentary is confusing and lacks the scream factor. Although what makes this film stand out from the other one hundred exorcism horror films, is that this movie is from the point of view of a priest who sees doing 'exorcisms' as easy money, but surprise surprise he quickly changes his mind when he accepts a plea to help a young girl's family rid her of the demon that has taken over her body. Resulting in some shaky camera work, screaming and farcical action, Blair Witch meets American Beauty style. That is if you manage to sit through the first hour of the film listening to a priest rattle on about his life, yawn. Whats more most of the characters in the film are unbelievable leaving you wondering what they actually bring to the movie apart from making the narrative a bit more confusing and dragging things out.

Film Review- Narnia: The voyage of the Dawn Treader

After watching the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and  Prince Caspian over the Christmas holidays I was left wanting another Narnia fix so decided to give the latest film in the trilogy a go. I was slightly disappointed by Prince Caspian and had heard Disney had pulled out of making the third so was a little sceptical that the new film could be better than the first. Unfortunately I was right, the film was some what predictable and uninteresting, I guess it didn't help that I was sat next to a sniffling child for the whole two hours?
While the graphics were amazing, much of the characters lacked the love ability factor which came so easily in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. With King Peter and Queen Susan being demoted to minor characters, it was up to Queen Lucy and King Edmund to lead the way, taking centre stage with their cousin Eustace, who depsite his name actually played a somewhat amusing part, building up a good rapport with Reepicheep the mouse, actually their relationship was what stood out most in the film.I was also disappointed with the lack of Narnian characters who were replaced by people, a comment which may seem odd but only fans of Narnia could understand. All I can think is that the lack of CGI characters was down to smaller budgets? All in all he film is a bit of a let down and because of its simplistic plot more suited to children.

Coming soon to a cinema near you....

Winter 2011                

Blue Valentine

Debuted at the Sundance festival, the film's narrative is based around a young married couple, played by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, whose relationship is falling apart. This results in the story going back and forth in time to show how the couple met and ended up together.

Spring 2011

Paul

A comedy by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost about two sci-fi geeks who visit American UFO terrority. While  they are there they meet an alien, as you do (?), who takes them on an insane road trip.

Scream 4

It's ten years on, and Sydney Prescott, who has just managed to get her life back on track thanks to writing, is visited by the ghost face killer, arghhhh, and what's more the old rules (e.g can't be killed if you are a virgin) don't apply anymore.
The film features most of the original characters including Neve Campbell and Courtney Cox, along with some new ones.

Summer 2011

The Hangover 2

The sequel to one of the funniest films of 2009, Phil, Stu, Alan and Doug travel to Thailand for Stu's wedding. After Vegas, Stu is hoping for a calm and subdued brunch, however things don't go as planned and there is a possibility that one of the guys get tattooed for life.


Summer 2012

The Dark Knight Rises

Currently being written by David Goyer, the film will star Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Tom Hardy. But can their performances top the late Heath Ledger's as the Joker in the preceding film?