Reviews
The Express
Date posted: Thu, 20/11/2008 - 7:28pm| Year: | 2008 |
| Director: | Gary Fleder |
| Cast: | Ron Brown, Dennis Quaid, Charles S. Dutton |
| Rating: | B |
| Reviewed by: | Nancy Keefe Rhodes |
Gary Fleder's new sports biopic, The Express, offers a remarkable insight into the world of college football. Nancy Keefe Rhodes is rather taken with this fine genre piece.
Ballast
Date posted: Tue, 04/11/2008 - 12:17am| Year: | 2008 |
| Director: | Lance Hammer |
| Cast: | Michael J. Smith Sr., Jim Myron Ross and Tarra Riggs |
| Rating: | C |
| Reviewed by: | Matt Kendall |
A single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence awakens the fury of a bitter and longstanding conflict.
Transsiberian
Date posted: Sun, 31/08/2008 - 8:18pm| Year: | 2008 |
| Director: | Brad Anderson |
| Cast: | Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley, Kate Mara and Eduardo Noriega |
| Rating: | B- |
| Reviewed by: | Paolo Cabrelli |
In Brad Anderson's new film - an entry into the enduring sub-genre of train movies - Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer get in way too deep across the frozen Siberian wastelands. An enjoyable if unspectacular old-fashioned romp.
The Visitor
Date posted: Sun, 31/08/2008 - 11:56am| Year: | 2008 |
| Director: | Thomas McCarthy |
| Cast: | Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Jekesai Gurira |
| Rating: | B+ |
| Reviewed by: | Matt Kendall |
Matt Kendall gets to grips with this enlightening tale - a favourite of the film festivals - of a college professor who travels to New York City to attend a conference to find a young couple living in his apartment. At last, Richard Jenkins gets his own movie!
Unveiled
Date posted: Thu, 21/08/2008 - 12:40pm| Year: | 2005 |
| Director: | Angelina Maccarone |
| Cast: | Jasmin Tabatabai, Anneke Kim Sarnau, and Navíd Akhavan |
| Rating: | B- |
| Reviewed by: | Matt Kendall |
Survival is not enough. Under peril of death Fariba Tabrizi has fled from Iran. In Germany she has no alternative way of avoiding the threat of deportation other than to assume the identity of a deceased co-detainee. Matt Kendall explores this intriguing tale of immigration.
Pineapple Express
Date posted: Thu, 21/08/2008 - 12:22pm| Year: | 2008 |
| Director: | David Gordon Green |
| Cast: | Seth Rogen, James Franco, and Danny McBride |
| Rating: | B+ |
| Reviewed by: | David Holmes |
What if a stoner’s wildest notions, both paranoid and grandiose, magically came true? That, in a nutshell, is the premise of Pineapple Express, a clever and detailed pastiche of 80’s buddy movies steeped in the conventions of loser comedy.
Man On Wire
Date posted: Sun, 03/08/2008 - 11:14am| Year: | 2008 |
| Director: | James Marsh |
| Cast: | Philippe Petit, Ardis Campbell, David Demato, David Roland Frank, Aaron Haskell |
| Rating: | A |
| Reviewed by: | Matt Kendall |
Man On Wire charts the life of a quirky, eccentric and eminently likeable character, Philippe Petit and the true story of his obsession with completing a tightrope walk across the twin towers. James Marsh's stunning documentary takes us back up, beyond the clouds.
The Dark Knight
Date posted: Sun, 03/08/2008 - 10:56am| Year: | 2008 |
| Director: | Christopher Nolan |
| Cast: | Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, and Maggie Gyllenhaal |
| Rating: | A+ |
| Reviewed by: | David Holmes |
Christopher Nolan's epic is a growling, prowling masterwork of American crime fiction and the most significant step forward for summer blockbusters since Spielberg invented the genre in 1975. Hefty claims these may be, but The Dark Knight is a hefty piece of work.
The Happening
Date posted: Sun, 03/08/2008 - 10:24am| Year: | 2008 |
| Director: | M. Night Shyamalan |
| Cast: | Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, and John Leguizamo |
| Rating: | |
| Reviewed by: | David Holmes |
Beware the foliage! David Holmes isn't afraid of the trees in M. Night Shyamalan’s ludicrous new film. After much deliberation, our reviewer decided the film didn't even deserve the lowest possible grade available on FilmSlash. Find out what makes a stinker a stinker in this scathing review.
My Winnipeg
Date posted: Sun, 03/08/2008 - 10:11am| Year: | 2008 |
| Director: | Guy Maddin |
| Cast: | Darcy Fehr, Ann Savage, Amy Stewart |
| Rating: | A |
| Reviewed by: | Matt Kendall |
Canadian maverick Guy Maddin continues to plough a lonely but compelling furrow in his latest film. Matt Kendall is entranced by the documentary-style, autobiographic dreamscapes of this beguiling filmmaker.
