Still Walking
This intimate drama follows three generations of the Yokoyama family who get together to remember the life of oldest son Junpei who died several years earlier. Through this set-up it […]
Tag Archives: 2008
Rambo
Given the number of decades he’d spent in genre flicks by 2008, you’d be forgiven for expecting Sylvester Stallone to at least know how to direct an action sequence, but […]
Burn After Reading
A recently dismissed CIA analyst is blackmailed by a pair of hapless gym workers who stumble on a CD ROM containing his memoirs. Linda and Chad (Frances McDormand and Brad […]
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia! is clearly a film made by people who love ABBA. This is evidenced by their absolute conviction that ABBA songs, even ABBA songs sung and staged horribly, require […]
On iPlayer: The Other Man
When his wife dies, Peter (Liam Neeson), a wealthy executive, discovers she was having an affair and decides to hunt down her lover. Liam Neeson is without a doubt an expert at […]
The Dark Knight
There was lots of gushing over this film when it first came up. But not enough, if you ask me, so I’m going to gush about it some more. I’m […]
Good
Viggo Mortensen plays Halder, an author and intellectual who is drawn into the Nazi party after his views on euthanasia are appropriated by the fascists. Mortensen here once again proves […]
