Just-out-of-university young people are often given a raw deal on the screen, which is why HBO’s new comedy TV series Girls is such a total success; it taps into a very unexplored market. Created (she writes, directs, produces and stars)…
People are increasingly approaching any horror movies that contain the words “found-footage” with trepidation. And, hey, in a world where crap like Project X and Paranormal Activity 4 exist who can blame them? But, despite what you may have heard,…
With Sinister still effectively subverting the found-footage genre and Paranormal Activity 4 hitting screens this week, now seems the ideal time to reflect on the best this technique has to offer. Since 1980’s now infamous Cannibal Holocaust things have come…
Anchorman’s Ron Burgundy and The Hangover’s Alan together on-screen, what could go wrong? Plenty, as political-satire/silly-shout-fest The Campaign proves. This one comes along just in time for the US presidential race – which has, incidentally, already reached proportions so funny…
In the summer of 1556, Arnaud du Tilh strolled into a village in Artigat, France, and loudly proclaimed to be Martin Guerre, one of the town’s citizens who’d disappeared eight years previously. Unbelievably, they believed him, and Arnaud was accepted…
It’s interesting to ask the question: at what point does total rubbish become acceptable because of the performance of a star? The answer it seems, given the film’s enormous fan base, is Taken, surprise hit of 2008 in which Liam…
The Dictator sees a return to the screen for Sacha Baron Cohen after the hilarious Borat and the inferior, although still shocking, Bruno . This time satirising the likes of Gaddafi and Saddam, Cohen plays the tyrannical General Aladeen, leader of the fictitious…
There is no doubt that everyone who has seen The Cabin in the Woods immediately wants to discuss it as much as possible. Unfortunately, as every film journalist in the world has since discovered, this cannot be done without spoiling the joys…
The Devil Inside is yet another much-hyped found footage film, this time the story is that in 1989 Maria Rossi killed 3 people during a botched exorcism and, after psychiatric appraisals, is then transferred to a hospital just outside the Vatican. 20 years…