Brendan Fraser swept on to the screen in 1999 as Ric O'Connell, archaeology expert and adventurer, whose talent also lay in combating evil Egyptian Mummies who rose from the dead and threatened, well, everyone...
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IN BRUGES – Hitmen reflect on life In Bruges
FILMED on location in the famous city of Bruges in Belgium, two hit men, Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson) escape to it after much bloodshed in London...
Read More »WELCOME TO THE STICKS (BIENVENUE CHEZ LES CH’TIS): – Comic look at little divisions
ONLY Titanic has taken more money at the French box office than this comedy and it is poised to become the most successful French film ever released in France...
Read More »BONNEVILLE – An amiable film experience
THE Bonneville of the title is a 1966 automobile (genus Pontiac), one of those massive V8 convertibles that defined American cars in the days when petrol was a pittance...
Read More »STOP-LOSS – Confronting film about aftermath of war
"STOP-LOSS" is one of those unusual terms associated with American war activity that does not immediately mean anything to the casual (or the serious) observer...
Read More »WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN? – Where has Osama been hiding?
NOT only is it a good question, it is one of the main questions of the last seven years...
Read More »THE SAVAGES – Family issues dominate soul-searching experience
IT is a pity that the ironic overtones of the name of the focus family, The Savages, indicates more of a barbarity than they actually display...
Read More »MAMMA MIA – Mamma Mia, here we go again
MAMMA Mia, here we go again...
Read More »TEN EMPTY – Dark, disturbing tale
MUCH is empty and lost in Ten Empty, the new Australian psychodrama playing in cinemas now...
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