The Libertine (2004) Movie Review

When I first saw commercials for “The Libertine”, not only the title, but the way Johnny Depp looked made me think of a cheesy metal band that I secretly enjoy called Cradle of Filth, and by the end of the film, the overall likeness between Depp and ghoulish Cradle of Filth lead singer Dani...

March 23rd, 2006 | Read More

The Last Drop (2005) Movie Review

Parts “Kelly’s Heroes” and parts “Three Kings”, the British World War II movie “The Last Drop” sees a group of men (a “guys on a mission” movie, as Tarantino calls them) dropped behind enemy lines during the historically botched Operation Market Garden....

February 2nd, 2006 | Read More

The Tesseract (2003) Movie Review

“The Tesseract” sees Oxide Pang (”The Eye”) filming for the first time in the English language, and attempting to bring Alex Garland’s enigmatic second novel to the screen. The abject failure of the Hollywood adaptation of Garland’s debut novel, “The Beach”...

November 20th, 2005 | Read More

Spirit Trap (2005) Movie Review

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: five college students move into an old derelict house and encounters strange going-ons that eventually makes them turn on one another. And oh yeah, a quija board (or a variation of one) comes into play. Plus, the Fair Hair lead is blonde, empathetic, and is...

November 18th, 2005 | Read More

Half Light (2006) Movie Review

You would be forgiven if you thought the only thing Demi Moore was famous for is as that older chick shacking up with that semi-retarded kid in the trucker hat who likes to punk celebrities. After all, she did take a major sabbatical from the acting game for quite some time, leaving behind a thriving...

November 15th, 2005 | Read More

Revolver (2005) Movie Review

Poor Guy Ritchie. It could be argued that the bloke single-handedly re-invigorated the British film industry with his then-unique brand of criminal mayhem, not to mention making people look at the Brits as being capable of film genres other than those involving stuffy people in corsets or whimsical blue-collar...

November 7th, 2005 | Read More

The Descent (2005) Movie Review

“The Descent” is director Neil Marshall’s follow to his cult hit “Dog Soldiers” and sees him return once more to the genre in an attempt to maintain the current British revival. Whilst “Soldiers” was a cheap and cheerful gore fest, Marshall takes a far more serious...

July 28th, 2005 | Read More

Two Men Went to War (2002) Movie Review

(Movie Review by Oshram ) The premise of “Two Men Went to War” is something only the English could dream up: two men, Private Cuthbertson (Leo Bill) and Sergeant King (Kenneth Cranham, who looks disturbingly like Leo McKern on the box) are serving in a platoon of dentists in Britain’s...

July 22nd, 2005 | Read More

House of 9 (2005) Movie Review

Borrowing more than just a little bit from Vincenzo Natali’s “Cube” and its Canadian brethren “My Little Eye”, the British “House of 9″ has 9 strangers abducted off the streets and tossed into a house and left to their own devices. The hope, according to the...

June 8th, 2005 | Read More

The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) Movie Review

(Movie Review by Shari ) Well, Earth is destroyed, but luckily guy-next-door Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is best friends with an alien named Ford Prefect (Mos Def, “The Woodsman”), who saves Arthur’s life by thumbing a lift on the ginormous spaceship which has just played a rather...

May 23rd, 2005 | Read More

3 Steps to Heaven (1995) Movie Review

(Movie Review by Donnie Saxton) “3 Steps to Heaven” is a British crime drama about a female protagonist named Suzanne (Katrin Cartlidge) who takes it upon herself to solve the mysterious death of her boyfriend. Originally a TV movie, the story is derivative of many superior films where the...

May 20th, 2005 | Read More

Layer Cake (2004) Movie Review

Following the success of Guy Ritchie’s “Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrels” in 1998, the British film industry found itself overrun with tales of London gangsters, most of which were sadly made with little thought to creativity, instead relying on flashy designer violence and supposedly...

May 18th, 2005 | Read More

Close Your Eyes aka Doctor Sleep (2002) Movie Review

(Movie Review by Donnie Saxton) “Close Your Eyes” is a British paranormal thriller directed by Nick Willing and based on the novel “Dr. Sleep” by Madison Smartt Bell. Though unread by me, judging by the film, “Dr. Sleep” appears to be of the Dan Brown progeny (or perhaps...

April 27th, 2005 | Read More

Cold and Dark (2004) Movie Review

Besides being one of the rare British horror films to incorporate a plot that is as “out there” as some of its American independent brethrens, Andrew Goth’s “Cold and Dark” is of interest to another group of fans, namely followers of Chow Yun Fat. Goth is also the director...

April 9th, 2005 | Read More

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (2003) Movie Review

(Movie Review by Donnie Saxton) Somewhat disturbingly, I can easily imagine Clive Owen (”Sin City”) in 1971 practicing his chilling stare in an English sandbox while taking some poor toddler’s lunch money. That same year, Mike Hodges released his benchmark revenge thriller “Get...

April 4th, 2005 | Read More

Nine Lives (2002) Movie Review

It’s rare these days to find a horror film that strays even a little bit outside of genre conventions; it’s even worse with the teen slasher subgenre. Dark corridors, scared teens, thunder and lightning, and a knife wielding slasher all figure prominently into the story. Unfortunately, the...

March 20th, 2005 | Read More

Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) Movie Review

Despite its title, “Wisconsin Death Trip” is not a crazed backwoods slasher film, but rather a feature length documentary about the high incidence of murder and madness which afflicted the small town of Black River Falls in the 1890s. Shot in black and white, and saturated with gothic style,...

March 10th, 2005 | Read More

9 Songs (2004) Movie Review

Writer/director Michael Winterbottom’s “9 Songs” is about a 20-something couple who meets during a live concert, retires to the man’s apartment for a night of marathon sex, then decides to shack up for a couple of months or so. As the movie’s reputation has indicated, in-between...

February 28th, 2005 | Read More

Creep (2004) Movie Review

“Creep” comes along at a time when the British horror industry is experiencing a resurgence of sorts, with recent years bringing forth films such as “28 Days Later” and “Dead Man’s Shoes”. In this context, director Christopher Smith’s debut film can be...

February 1st, 2005 | Read More

If Only (2004) Movie Review

At the risk of losing my non-existent “cool” credibility with the hipsters who regularly visit the site, let me go ahead and say that I’ve always found Jennifer Love Hewitt, formerly of the TV show “Party of 5″, to be terribly appealing. It’s not just the fact that...

January 24th, 2005 | Read More