Oscar Nominations List 2012

The Oscar nominations are in, and big surprise: they're a load of crap. But rather than drone on about how there's no Michael Fassbender, or only one bloody sound editing nomination for Drive, or how Transformers: Dark of the Moon effectively got THREE TIMES AS MANY NOMINATIONS AS DRIVE (*cough*), I'll just post the full list. And get back to watching truly award-worthy films. BEST PICTURE The Artist The Descendants Extremely...

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Shame [Review]

Steve McQueen returns to direct again, after initial venture Hunger (also with Michael Fassbender) achieved critical acclaim. Its tone deadly serious, Hunger dealt with IRA politics and hunger strikes in 1980s Ireland. Shame is an equally adult romp (no pun intended), though one of a completely different nature. Brandon (Fassbender) is a successful thirty-something businessman in the Big Apple. On the surface, he has it all; charm,...

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11 for 2011: The Year's Best

2011, and eleven films have come up trumps. I wanted to say there were a great deal more that I could have added to this list, but, there weren’t. So enjoy what little 2011 had to offer (though what it did have to offer was rather remarkable to say the least). 11. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Michael Bay, this is how action films are done. Tom Cruise returns for his fourth Mission, as his team are framed and disavowed. Simon Pegg...

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2011 Review Round-Up: Part 2

Continuing the review round-up for 2011: the rest of the films I never got round to covering. Read and enjoy. A Lonely Place to Die ✰✰✰✰ Underrated and overlooked, A Lonely Place to Die is thrilling, but simple - the characters have as much depth as the parent-and-toddler end of your local swimming pool, and the finale gets a little bit too wound up in itself; the majority of the cat-and-mouse action takes place in the remote highlands, and...

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