Princess (2006) Movie Review

Given the enduring popularity of Eastern style anime and manga, Denmark probably isn’t the first country to spring to mind when considering adult themed animation. Step forward then Danish director and comic book creator Anders Morgenthaler, whose “Princess” is easily one of the most...

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Exodus (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...

November 21st, 2007 | Read More

The 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...

September 8th, 2007 | Read More

Taxidermia (2006) Movie Review

“Taxidermia” is Hungarian director Gyorgy Palfi’s follow up to his acclaimed “Hukkle”, and is another film obsessed with the act of eating and consumption, here taken to disgustingly literal extremes. Inspired by the short stories of Lajos Parti Nagy, the film is a non-stop...

August 5th, 2007 | Read More

The 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...

May 18th, 2007 | Read More

This 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...

May 4th, 2007 | Read More

Sunshine (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 ten...

April 10th, 2007 | Read More

Perfect Creature (2006) Movie Review

Alternate Earth stories have been around in literary form forever, and comic books have similarly taken advantage of the vast creative space offered by the endless possibilities inherent in building a completely new world, while still grounding its foundation in the familiar. In the ’90s, DC comics...

March 24th, 2007 | Read More

Hot 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...

March 7th, 2007 | Read More

Resistance (2003) Movie Review

Todd Komarnicki’s “Resistance” is a little-known 2003 movie that stars Bill Paxton (the guy from “Titanic”, not the guy from “Independence Day”) as an American World War II pilot who crashes in the Netherlands, where he is rescued by Maquis resistance fighter...

February 10th, 2007 | Read More

The Witches 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...

February 6th, 2007 | Read More

Final Contract: Death on Delivery (2006) Movie Review

The English-language German movie “Final Contract: Death on Delivery” (aka “Dark Ride”) reminds me of the English-language French movie “Riders” (aka “Steal”). The two films have very much in common, including a lack of ambition when it comes to storytelling,...

January 20th, 2007 | Read More

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) Movie Review

One would think that “Run Lola Run” director Tom Tykwer would have approached the task of adapting Bernd Eichinger’s novel “Perfume” for screen with a sense of trepidation. Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Tim Burton and Stanley Kubrick had all been approached at one time...

January 12th, 2007 | Read More

Children 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,...

December 21st, 2006 | Read More

Stormbreaker (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...

November 10th, 2006 | Read More

The Last King of Scotland (2006) Movie Review

The late 1960s through the 1970s were a tumultuous time for central Africa. It was during this span that the European powers gave up and/or lost their colonial possessions on the ‘Dark Continent.’ But what could have been a golden opportunity for progress quickly spiraled into chaos as the...

October 27th, 2006 | Read More

The Queen (2006) Movie Review

(Movie review by John C. Ford) In 2003, a well-regarded director of independent films spun Oscar gold from a wisp of a storyline — a tone poem about a woman and a man from different generations who make a faltering, elusive connection in an exotic setting. And now, it has been done again. Ladies...

October 23rd, 2006 | Read More

Renaissance (2006) Movie Review

As computer processing power has increased over the years, we’ve seen more and more creative integration of CGI into film. For the most part, the technology has been restricted to rendering ever more convincing F/X for sci-fi and fantasy films. However, over the past few years we’ve seen...

October 18th, 2006 | Read More

Severance (2006) Movie Review

“Severance” is the latest from British horror hope Christopher Smith, who had a hit in 2004 with his excellent tube-bound chiller “Creep”. Here, Smith tackles something a little more ambitious, attempting to work in satirical humour and even social commentary amongst the ever...

August 28th, 2006 | Read More

Wilderness (2006) Movie Review

“Wilderness”, Michael Bassett’s follow-up to his World War I horror movie “Death Watch” can best be described as “Lords of the Flies” meets “Friday the 13th”. The film concerns an intrepid band of delinquent teens who, after one of their own commits...

August 23rd, 2006 | Read More