Archive for March, 2009
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Out to own on DVD & Blu-ray NOW
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There’s only one way to feel after watching British film-making maestro Richard Curtis’s musical trip down memory lane, and that’s one hundred per cent ‘uplifted’. This rocking medley totally captures the exhilarating and life-changing nature of pirate radio in the late 60s - whether you were fortunate to experience it first hand, or not. Actually, it doesn’t matter because what The Boat That Rocked does is symbolise the magic of youth and the strong feelings of experiencing something thrilling, unique and forbidden for the first time. In allowing Curtis to indulge on his fondest memories with this tale, we receive a happy wave of nostalgia, many laughs and some top tunes.
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Released 3rd April 2009
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Animation guru DreamWorks is quickly becoming the universal ‘knight in shining armour’ to every desperate parent forced to sit through hours of (apparently educational) mind-numbing kids shows. Their latest film, Monsters vs. Aliens, has finished playing in the 2D sandpit and is ready to join the Big League, armed with flash 3D glasses.
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Released 25th March 2009
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Man’s eternal fascination with predicting the future through long-lost symbolism, combined with this film’s refusal to be pigeon-holed into one category (thriller, sci-fi, horror etc) and its jaw-dropping catastrophic scenes of carnage are the primary ingredients that makes Knowing quite engrossing stuff to watch. In addition, technological whizz-kid director Alex Proyas’s (I, Robot, Dark City and The Crow) ability to inject something more deep-rooted, philosophically, in meaning into this project, elevates it out of the usual humdrum offerings with an ‘otherworldly’ edge.
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Released 27th March 2009
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Sir Ridley Scott attempted it last year with Body of Lies. Now writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff has pulled it off by portraying the multi-national, trans-border nature of international terrorism in Traitor, one of the most accurate, non-convoluted fictional depictions of the present-day terrorism threat that this ex-Criminology/Terrorism-Studies student has ever had the privilege of watching. Traitor tells it how it is, with only the mere gloss of Bourne-style action-adventure to whip up adrenaline and pace.
