Tim Conrad (Paul Rudd) is a financial analyst who eyes a promotion to afford all the things he wants in his life: A fast car, a fancy apartment and a happy life together with his girlfriend Julie (Stephanie Szostak). After nailing a presentation, Tim impresses his boss, who is keen to promote him...
Oct 7 2010 - 4:38pm
Picking up from 2007’s Resident Evil: Extinction, this fourth installment of Paul W.S. Anderson’s shoot ‘em up kicks into high gear with its 3D action sequences and sees Alice (Milla Jovovich) continuing her rampage of revenge on the evil Umbrella Corporation.
The T-Virus has...
Sep 16 2010 - 1:22pm
Director Nate Pantumsinchai has said of his feature debut, Lullabye Before I Wake, that it’s “an awkward first movie about an awkward first love.” He sums it up perfectly.
Despite the fact that the dialogue is in English and the stars of it are American, Lullabye Before I Wake is...
Jun 10 2010 - 11:21am
Director of the Bourne series, Paul Greengrass, delivers a gritty, politics-driven dramatization, focusing on an early period of the US-led occupation of Iraq, back in 2003. Loosely adapted from Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s non-fiction title, Imperial Life In The Emerald City: Inside Baghdad’...
Feb 26 2010 - 2:54pm
Neither rarefied art film nor widely accessible inspirational drama, The Soloist falls between the cracks both creatively and commercially. Based on the real case of a newspaperman finding a former musical prodigy homeless on the streets of Los Angeles, Brit director Joe Wright's first American...
Apr 21 2009 - 10:37am
(USA). The Pang brothers (The Eye) obviously believe that if it ain’t broken, fix it anyway. But this remake of their first movie, 1999’s Bangkok Dangerous, is a tedious, sloppy bore, starring Nicolas Cage (Ghost Rider) as a cold-blooded hit man who gets thrown into a quest of self-...
Sep 5 2008 - 4:35pm
(USA). Without a doubt, The Midnight Meat Train is one of the best horror movies in recent years. Adapted from a short story by horror maestro Clive Barker (Hellraiser) and helmed by Japanese director Ryuhei Kitamura in his Hollywood debut, this film is bound to please horror aficionados who have...
Jul 19 2008 - 4:59pm
(USA). While nothing ground-breaking, Space Chimps is a delightful, lighthearted and witty romp. Its animation is light years behind Pixar standards, but its unrestrained perkiness, enthusiasm, plus the fact that it does not take itself too seriously make Space Chimps a decent (albeit cheesy)...
Jul 17 2008 - 5:09pm
A British gangster film. Starring Colin Farrell. Set in Belgium. Admittedly, that doesn’t sound like the most inviting of films. But In Bruges is full of surprises, not least that Bruges itself is a beautiful city and, more importantly from the film’s point of view, that Farrell really...
May 26 2008 - 12:44pm
