Articles Written by Andrew Mackenzie
Karla (2006) Movie Review
Many of you will probably know Laura Prepon as “the redhead” from the popular Fox sitcom “That 70s Show”, and after seeing her play girl-next-door Donna Pinciotti for eight years, it’s kind of hard to accept her as a peroxide-blonde accessory to the rape and murder of three schoolgirls. “Karla” is based on the true [...]
October 28th, 2006 | Andrew Mackenzie | 4 Comments | Read MoreSnakes on a Plane (2006) Movie Review
Believe it or not, the aptly titled “Snakes on a Plane” began life when studio execs tried to come up with the worst movie concept ever: a myriad of venomous and very angry snakes are released on a plane while in mid-air and start attacking passengers. As a joke, they put this idea on a [...]
September 15th, 2006 | Andrew Mackenzie | 3 Comments | Read MoreHow is Your Fish Today? (2006) Movie Review
“How Is Your Fish Today?” began life as a British-commissioned Chinese documentary about Mohe, a small village in the northernmost part of China , lying on the Russian border. However, when the crew reached Mohe, a supposedly mystical town where it’s light twenty hours out of the day and the aurora [...]
August 31st, 2006 | Andrew Mackenzie | 1 Comment | Read MoreBloodRayne (2006) Movie Review
For those of you not already familiar with director Uwe Boll, let me bring you up to date: Boll is a German doctor of literature, who, ever since 2003’s “House of the Dead” has made a name for himself by buying the rights to videogames, bastardising their plots, concepts and characters for the screen, hiring [...]
August 18th, 2006 | Andrew Mackenzie | 1 Comment | Read MoreUltraviolet (2006) Movie Review
In his filmmaking career, director Kurt Wimmer has been pretty unlucky. His films have something to say, but have suffered from bad fortune in the process of conception to realisation. His 2002 sci-fi piece “Equilibrium” (in my opinion a very innovative movie with brilliant action and a strong message) was released during the frenzy created [...]
August 9th, 2006 | Andrew Mackenzie | 5 Comments | Read MoreReeker (2005) Movie Review
It’s safe to assume that almost everyone in the developed world is overly familiar with the slasher movie formula. Normally, a group of promiscuous high school/college students travel into the mountains or countryside for some reason, get lost, then all but one or two of them are horribly killed off. This formula has produced some [...]
August 1st, 2006 | Andrew Mackenzie | 3 Comments | Read MoreKidulthood (2006) Movie Review
“Gritty” is a word used far too often to categorise films. It appears that anything vaguely realistic or that plays outside of the regular rom-com or blockbuster format of Hollywood is labelled “gritty”, regardless of importance or quality. To give Menhaj Huda’s “KiDulthood” such a label would be in contradiction to [...]
June 18th, 2006 | Andrew Mackenzie | 5 Comments | Read MoreSkrypt (2004) Movie Review
I can safely say that “Skrypt” is the only Austrian film I’ve ever reviewed, seen or known to have existed. And, from what I can tell, the Austrian film market isn’t exactly booming. However, being from Scotland myself, criticising another country’s film industry is literally the equivalent of throwing stones [...]
April 29th, 2006 | Andrew Mackenzie | 0 Comments | Read MoreThe Aristocrats (2005) Movie Review
On paper, the concept of “The Aristocrats” sounds terrible: it is, essentially, 90 minutes of comedians being interviewed about a very dirty joke with the titular two-word punch line, “The Aristocrats”, and the role said joke plays in the comedy community. From this, one would deduce that the movie would get tiresome after about ten [...]
March 23rd, 2006 | Andrew Mackenzie | 0 Comments | Read MoreKing Kong (2005) Movie Review
I do not envy Peter Jackson. Since 1996, when work began on the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, the man has been consistently taking on some of the most arduous cinematic tasks in history. When “Return of the King” came out, Jackson said he wasn’t going to work on another big-scale, [...]
January 11th, 2006 | Andrew Mackenzie | 0 Comments | Read More
This movie will be really awsome! It comes out tomorrow here. The movie wont be as good as the book ...
This barley even resembles Dragonball.
They took the old 'learn kung fu to save the world' type of movie and called ...
