HAPPY GILMORE (1996) - Film Review

HAPPY GILMORE; I can hardly think of this film without smiling. This is comedy in every sense of the word. Adam Sandler is at his wise-cracking, slap-stick best. If you are looking for light-hearted, quick-witted entertainment; for some pointless, farcical fun. Sit down, turn of your brain and laugh your way through this charming and hilarious film.

Adam Sandler plays Happy Gilmore; an angry and frustrated hockey player who accidentally discovers a talent for golf. In a bid to win back his Grandmother’s home, he takes on the best at their

MADELEINE ZABEL - (2011 ) Film Review

Writer/Director Chris Shimojima’s 2011 short, MADELEINE ZABEL is an interesting and compelling watch. At a mere 17 minutes long, and with a cast of only three, it tells an intriguing tale of scandal, sibling rivalry, lies, and jealousy. It even manages to include a twist! MADELEINE ZABEL plays on our curiosity to keep us watching, and as the story unfolds it manages to keep our interest throughout.

After a tantrum involving the press, and a leaked sex tape, heiress/socialite, Madeleine Zabel (Jenna D’Angelo) is desperate to clean up her image. Her publicist Janet Laverty (Kelly Walters) sets up a phone interview with freelance reporter Elliot Snow (Chris Henry Coffey).  

CHANGE (2011) - Flim Review

A real mix of emotions, Jeff McCucheon and Melissa Osborne’s 2011 short film CHANGE is the story of a day in the life of Jamie; a young black, gay, American kid. This isn’t just any day, this is the day of President Obama’s election, and also the day Proposition 8 - the voter initiative to eliminate same-sex marriage – is passed. CHANGE is a thought provoking and captivating film, which although only 24 minutes long, will keep you thinking long after the end credits roll.

Jamie (Sean McClam) is excitedly awaiting the election results. As thousands of black Americans await confirmation of America’s first black president, a dark cloud is hanging over his head; This is also the day when he will find out if proposition 8 is passed. Sure that it could never happen in California, he focuses on the election. As the celebrations are in full swing, the news finds him that proposition 8 has indeed been passed. From joy to disbelief

Copycat (1995) - Film Review

Jon Amiel’s 1995 psychological thriller COPYCAT is both captivating and intelligent. With a dark sense of foreboding throughout, COPYCAT never allows us to be one step ahead. It makes a nice change to be in-step with the characters as they try to outwit the killer in this stylish and tense film, which never quite permits us to exhale. 

Criminal psychologist Dr. Helen Hudson (Sigourney Weaver) has a narrow escape from a serial killer, and as a result becomes a paranoid recluse who suffers from agoraphobia. With only the

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never 3D (2011) - Film Review

I cringed as I entered the cinema with my 10 year old daughter and her best mate. This was it: the moment I’d been dreading for the whole of half term, but a promise is a promise and I intended to fulfil mine. I’d put it off until the last showing, hoping to avoid the hordes of screaming girls that I knew JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER would attract. So I sat in a surprisingly empty room, donned my 3D glasses and prepared to take 40 winks. After all, how entertaining could this documentary about a fresh-faced, manufactured teen idol actually be? I was stunned: not only was this glossy, self-promoting film the highlight of the week for two 10 year olds, but I learned something new: Justin Bieber is an incredibly talented young man. His face, voice and hairstyle are not all he has in his arsenal. This kid can play the drums, guitar, keyboard, and trumpet too. From a normal background to a sell-out concert at Madison Square Gardens there is no denying: this kid has something.

As most of us know, unless you’re a 10 year old girl, it’s just not cool to like Justin Bieber. This is my only explanation for all the rough reviews Justin Bieber: Never Say Never is getting. I had no interest in this young man, his life, or his music. However I do love the underdog, and was surprised to learn about Bieber’s

Disturbia (2007) - Film Review

Imagine being under house arrest, bored out of your mind and with nothing to do but spy on the other residents in the quiet suburban street on which you reside. Now imagine having an over-active imagination, seeing one of your neighbours acting in a bizarre fashion, and all the while hearing on the news about a missing woman. Of course!! He did it; he’s a mass murderer stacking up bodies in his basement!! This is the conclusion jumped to by stir-crazy Kale Brecht (Shia LaBeouf) in D.J Caruso’s 2007 thriller DISTURBIA. Only ever being shown enough to keep us guessing; we are right with him in his quest for the truth. Question is, is he simply a bored teenager with cabin-fever and a hyper-active imagination. Or is there something sinister afoot in suburbia?

After his father is killed in a car accident, likable Kale is finding life tough; he assaults his Spanish teacher and ends up under house arrest, lonely, bored and frustrated. Spending his days building his ‘Twinkie tower’ and peeping in on his neighbours lives, he soon

BURIED (2010) - Film Review

90 minutes filmed entirely inside a coffin sized box, a risky concept and one which I was very sceptical about. Surely Rodrigo Cortés would cheat, using the odd flash back to escape the box occasionally? Absolutely not!!! Not for one moment of his 2010 film BURIED does he leave the confines of that wooden box. Certainly then, it must become tiresome to watch? Not at all. Don’t get me wrong, the clueless idiot inside the box will drive you nuts with his stupid decisions. But you will be compelled to watch, if only to see if this likeable fool can make it out alive!

Tense and claustrophobic from the start, Buried tells the story of Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) an American truck driver contracted to work in Iraq. When he wakes in pitch darkness, it doesn’t take him long to realise his predicament and for panic to set in. Buried in a roughly made coffin under the Iraqi desert with

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) - Film Review

After reading a few reviews about Jon Turteltaub’s 2010 fantasy adventure, THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE, I soon realised that most had been written by middle aged men. So as I sat down with my Mam and my Daughter, I figured the target audience should be the judge. As THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE is a family film, three generations of my family would review it. So, what was the verdict? My 10 year old Daughter declared it to be ‘Cool’, My Mam thought it was an 'exciting family film', and me?? Well, never have I been so charmed by a scruffy bloke wearing ‘old man shoes’.

In the year 740 A. D. Balthazar Black (Nicolas Cage) battles evil, the end result is that the evil Morgana (Alice Krige) merged with Balthazar’s ally and close friend, Veronica (Monica Bellucci) end up trapped in a layer of a Russian doll, a vessel to hold the evil captive for all time. Fast forward to modern day Manhattan,