Film

Paper Heart

Posted 7:59pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Sarah Baillie

Directed by Nick Jasenovic (4/5) Charlyne Li (comedienne/actress/musician) doesn’t believe in love. She has never been in love, and thinks she probably never will be. To see what she is missing out on, she sets out on a trip across the U.S. with director Nick Jasenovic to make a Read more...

Every Jack Has a Jill

Posted 3:57pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Sarah Baillie

Directed by Jennifer Devoldere (3/5)   Starring the beautiful Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds) and Justin Bartha (The Hangover), Every Jack Has a Jill (Jusqu’à Toi) is a sweet, better-than- -average romantic comedy. Chloé (Laurent) is a slightly Read more...

The Choir

Posted 3:56pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Sarah Baillie

Directed Michael Davie (5/5) Filmed at one of South Africa’s most dangerous prisons, The Choir is a documentary that gives incredible insight into the lives of prisoners. The main subject of the film is 19-year-old Jabulani, who has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment Read more...

Robin Hood

Posted 3:04pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Alecks Vuckovic

Directed by Ridley Scott Rating: 3/5 Forget everything you might know about the original Robin Hood. There are no men prancing merrily around in a forest sporting tights to match the trees or stealing gold from the rich and giving it to the poor. Robin Hood no longer looks like a grown-up Read more...

The Blind Side

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Max Segal

Directed by John Lee Hancock (1/5) The Blind Side is the latest instalment in the long-running narrative that is the myth of white supremacy. Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) is a wealthy, conservative mother of two who takes black teenager Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) into her Read more...

The Secret In Their Eyes

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Sarah Baillie

Directed by Juan Jose Campanella (3.5/5) The Secret In Their Eyes (El Secreto de sus Ojos) is a riveting murder mystery of the highest order. The film follows Benjamin Esposito, a recently retired federal justice agent. Benjamin is still kept awake at night by an investigation he was Read more...

New York, I Love You

Posted 3:02pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Nicole Muriel

Directors: Multiple (2/5)     Emmanuel Benbihy, who produced Paris, Je T’aime, has again arranged an anthology of love stories with ten different directors. Each short was made in just over a week. This film has a stellar cast, including Natalie Portman and Shia Read more...

The Hedgehog

Posted 2:09pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Sarah Baillie

Directed by Mona Achache (4/5) The Hedgehog is an endearing film about the unlikely friendship which develops between three neighbours living in a luxury apartment building in Paris: Paloma, an 11-year-old girl; Renée, the concierge; and Mr. Ozu, an intriguing, friendly Japanese Read more...

A Single Man

Posted 2:08pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Kavi Chetty

Directed by Tom Ford (4.5/5) Tom Ford’s directorial debut A Single Man is, above all else, an aesthetic splendour. Based on the Christopher Isherwood novel of the same name, the story follows a day in the life of George Falconer (Colin Firth), a gay English professor, coping Read more...

Dear John

Posted 2:07pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Jane Adcroft

Directed by Lasse Halström (2.5 /5) Okay, confession time: I own The Notebook on DVD, I cry every time I watch A Walk to Remember, and I didn’t think Nights in Rodanthe was that bad. So when I heard that yet another Nicholas Sparks’ novel, Dear John, was being adapted for Read more...