‘FILM REVIEWS’ Archives
SALT – Film Review
These days, Angelina Jolie is better- known as a mother, humanitarian, sex symbol, tabloid target, style icon and- possibly- superhero, so it's almost a surprise to be reminded that she occasionally does movies as well. Salt is her new release, a science fiction- flavored spy thriller which positions her as an action star. She is Evelyn Salt, [...]
Det enda rationella (A Rational Solution_2009)
A Rational Solution or what I call a proper title A Fucked Up Situation. Now before I start I have to say this: this movie darkened my soul by giving me shots of misery just like Requiem For A Dream did years ago. Don't expect to see people die here or toxic problems of any kind. What dies here, is LOVE. This movie is all about the end of a [...]
SHERLOCK – TV Review
Some years ago, Steven Moffatt helmed a BBC One series called Jekyll. It starred James Nesbitt and was a kind of modern day adaptation / sequel of Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. I haven't seen it but I 'm told it was quite good. This new Sherlock Holmes mini- series seems to follow the same general idea. Moffatt is once again [...]
Centurion Film Review
British filmaker Neil Marshall has attracted a lot of attention with his debut Dog Soldiers, a smart, low budget werewolf tale, before making perhaps the best horror film of the last decade with the unbearably tense and claustrophobic The Descent. The follow- up, Doomsday was a fun apocalyptic B- movie. It was no masterpiece, but any director who [...]
Dexter Season Five Teaser
In the last episode of Dexter season 4 boring wife found dead and Dexters only son found laying in a blood bath. Does it ring any bell??? Get ready for season #5. -manoc-
True Blood Season #3 Episode #2
3.2 Beautifully Broken Bill after leaving the old ladies house and in the middle of Mississippi County is being attacked by a pack of wolves – not ordinary wolves but werewolves. The situation he is in smells a lot of blood. So after a semi splatter fight seems that the weres are nothing more than little puppies. It is then by when the [...]
True Blood Season #3 Episode #01
True Blood Season 3 finally premiered on the 13th of June 2010 after almost one whole year of anticipation. True Blood, by being light entertainment but with a lot of undercover social and political messages, managed to nail us to our couch. We are going to have a stunning new season taken by Charlaine Harris’s third book Club Dead. But [...]
Solomon Kane
Robert E. Howard has gone down in history as the creator of Conan The Barbarian, one of the most enduring creations in all of fantasy literature. Not a bad legacy, but far from his only accomplishment. Through the pages of Weird Tales and other pulp magazines of the 1930s, he offered a whole bunch of unreconstructed adventures and a variety of [...]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Film Review
The Millenium Trilogy is a series of best- selling crime novels, written by Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson, shortly before his death in 2004. The three books (translated in English as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest) were hugely successful in Sweden, before conquering the [...]
The Crazies (Film Review)
In the opening credits of The Crazies, we catch fleeting images of fire and devastation, before flashing back 48 hours earlier, to an ordinary farming community. It all looks normal enough, but the voice of Johnny Cash singing “We ‘ll Meet Again” over images of small- town Americana tells you everything you need. These people don’t know it [...]