Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller) is back with friends this time determined to make it¦.back to his home of New York in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. The film opens to a dream sequence with Alex picturing a dull existence where he and his friends have grown old in Africa, they decide to head for New York for all the good things they remember but first they have to swing by … [Read more...]
Private Peaceful (2012) review by That Film Brat
Private Peaceful, based on the book by Michael Morpurgo, is a low-budget British war film. The movie is inevitably going to be compared to War Horse, the other Morpurgo adaptation to come out recently. This comparison would be unfair, however, as not only did Private Peaceful start production before War Horse, but it's actually a much better movie. While the Speilberg film was … [Read more...]
Ruby Sparks (2012) review by That Film Brat
Directed by husband and wife team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Ruby Sparks is a 2012 comedy-drama, based around a struggling writer named Calvin (Paul Dano), suffering writer's block in attempting to write the follow-up to his big success. His therapist (Elliot Gould) suggests he writes something regardless of it's quality. So, he invents a girl, his dream girl, in fact. … [Read more...]
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) review by That Film Geek
Resident Evil: Retribution is the fifth film in the video game spin-off series which again follows Alice (Milla Jovovich) as she battles against the evil Umbrella corporation. Again directed Paul W. S. Anderson, this film picks up right where Resident Evil Afterlife left off, on a ship full of freed human test subjects, being approached by umbrella attack helicopters led by a … [Read more...]
Review: The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Writing can sometimes be a thankless task. Some people will love what you write, others will hate it and the majority won't care. But those who like to write do so for a variety of reasons; to become famous, to be liked or simply to express themselves in a way that they find difficult in 'real life.' Whatever the reasons for writing, there are endless possibilities that lay … [Read more...]
Sinister (2012) review by That Film Guy
True crime novelist Ellison Osbourne (Ethan Hawke) has made a career out of writing about missing children and is trying to recreate the success of his first book. He decides to move his family to the site of a grisly murder that saw four members of a family hanged from a tree. During the move he discovers a box in the attic which houses a series of super 8 reels of film and a … [Read more...]
Tower Block (2012) review by That Film Doctor
With the release of The Raid and Dredd in recent weeks, it seems that there is something about the high rise skyscraper as a setting for tense action films. Ever since The Towering Inferno and then Die Hard, the claustrophobia of a high-rise building as fascinated film makers. … [Read more...]
The Campaign (2012) review by That Film Guy
Perfectly timed just before the United States Presidential elections in 2012, The Campaign is a satirical comedy that follows the campaign of two congressional candidates. Written by Chris Henchy and Shawn Harwell, it is directed by Jay Roach of the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents series. … [Read more...]
Looper (2012) review by That Film Guy
Director Rian Johnson began his career with the language-muddling high school film noir Brick, before moving on to the con-man film The Brothers Bloom, yet his third film, arguably his best, is a science fiction time-travel action film called Looper. Creating an original, but familiar location of near-future Earth, Johnson is able to place interesting characters with a complex … [Read more...]
House at the End of the Street (2012) review by That Film Gal
Much has been made of the fact that the House at the End of the Street was shot before The Hunger Games catapulted Jennifer Lawrence to the dizzying heights of the A list. Some have even suggested that the lack of previews might in fact point to an embarrassed cast, which would have preferred it if this little forgotten thriller from all the way back in 2010, had been swept … [Read more...]