British Movie Reviews
The Cottage (2008) Movie Review
The British already know that writer-director Paul Andrew Williams is one to watch. His feature film debut, “London to Brighton” (2006), saw him being nominated for a BAFTA, as the Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer. He may have lost out on that one to Andrea Arnold for “Red Road,” but he didn’t [...]
May 6th, 2008 | Bodhi Grrl | 0 comments | Read MoreThe Baker (2007) Movie Review
Quirky hitman movies are nothing new, and unfortunately the plots themselves are, well, never anything overly original. After all, there are only so many twists you can come up with when the premise must always revolve around a killer who, for one reason or another, begins to question his profession. Some movies manage to find [...]
April 12th, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreExodus (2007) Movie review
In late 2006, UK television company Channel 4 began to hype a film that ostensibly had the power to revolutionise the British movie industry. The film, tentatively called “The Margate Exodus” was set to break new ground. Director Penny Woolcock was at the helm of one of the biggest cinematic undertakings in British [...]
November 21st, 2007 | Andrew Mackenzie | 0 comments | Read MoreThe Zombie Diaries (2006) Movie Review
It’s hard to make a zombie movie and have it stand out nowadays, which is probably why British writers/directors Michael Bartlett and Kevin Gates decided to make a zombie movie that is shot exclusively from the perspective of handheld video camcorders. The premise is a simple one: It is the early days of a zombie [...]
September 8th, 2007 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreThe Toybox (2005) Movie Review
Oh unbounded joy, another low-budget British horror DVD presents itself to me for review. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love watching and reviewing movies, and I am a big advocate of British cinema, but if you’ve ever endured films like “The Witches Hammer” then you’ll excuse me for being a little jaded. “The Toybox” [...]
May 18th, 2007 | Andrew Mackenzie | 0 comments | Read MoreThis is England (2006) Movie Review
Of the many filmmakers working in Britain today, Shane Meadows can be seen as the only one making films about Britain. With “This Is England”, he transports the viewer into the seedy world of inner-city gangs, just as he did a decade ago with “TwentyFourSeven”. However, the world of skinheads and working-class thugs is a [...]
May 4th, 2007 | Andrew Mackenzie | 1 comment | Read MoreSunshine (2007) Movie Review
Once, every now and then, a movie comes along with imagery and tone so solid that it makes me say, “Yeah”. I say it with a sort of nonchalant awe and relaxed wonder, not unlike the reaction Shaft would give upon seeing a UFO landing and a super fine alien chick stepping out. The first [...]
April 10th, 2007 | Andrew Mackenzie | 1 comment | Read MoreHot Fuzz (2007) Movie Review
“Hot Fuzz” is the latest offering from the writer/director team of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, whose last collaboration was 2004’s brilliant zombie-romantic comedy “Shaun of the Dead”. This time the duo turns to lampooning the police buddy action genre, but they also have an ulterior motive: to create a British-made action movie that’s actually [...]
March 7th, 2007 | Andrew Mackenzie | 3 comments | Read MoreThe Witchers Hammer (2006) Movie Review
“The Witches Hammer” is, in essence, a low-budget British take on the “babe with a blade” vampire movie formula. Over the last few years, the likes of the “Underworld” movies, “Ultraviolet” and “Bloodrayne” have all tried to lend a feminine edge to the vampire/martial arts sub-genre that “Blade” pioneered in 1998. The problem with this [...]
February 6th, 2007 | Andrew Mackenzie | 0 comments | Read MoreChildren of Men (2006) Movie Review
“Children Of Men,” the latest film from rising Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron (”Y tu mama tambi’n”), asks a very curious question: What would the world be like if we could no longer have children? Pretty crappy, it seems. The film takes place in London in the year 2027, 18 years after the last child on [...]
December 21st, 2006 | Gopal | 0 comments | Read MoreCasino Royale (2006) Movie Review / “007 and Counting”: The Life and Times of the James Bonds
In Michael Winterbottom’s “24 Hour Party People”, a film about the London music and club scene of the 1970s and 80s, the Tony Wilson character claims that it was the invention of broccoli that funded the James Bond films. Believe it or not, there is supposedly some truth to this: Albert R. Broccoli, who with [...]
November 23rd, 2006 | Brian Holcomb | 0 comments | Read MoreStormbreaker (2006) Movie Review
Hollywood has cornered the market on teen spy movies for a while, and now the British are getting in on the action with their own version. Enter Alex Rider, junior secret agent. Or, actually, reluctant junior secret agent. Based on the series of adventure novels by Anthony Horowitz (who also pens the screenplay), “Stormbreaker” is, [...]
November 10th, 2006 | Nix | 3 comments | Read More
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Great review. However, I didn't feel the film ran long at all. There was so much going on, ...
BULLSHIT!!!Steven Seagal....y the best of!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Van Damme,,,,is looser...dumb...FUCK YOU JEAN CLAUDE!!! 
But 99.9% of the world's population think that saiyan look asian 
Remember dark knight returns? Could be worked in rather seamlessly here with joker, two-face, and superman chasing the fugitive ...
