8 MINUTES IDLE: another triumph of Kickstarter crowd sourcing
Film reviewers continue to be a bit sniffy about movies crowd-sourced through Kickstarter, Indiegogo and the like, evidenced by th…
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Film Review: ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES – continues what exactly?
Im not sure why exactly I did it, but I missed seeing ANCHORMAN at the cinema back in the year of our Ford 2004. I have several th…
Film Review: THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY: snap out of it
Actor-director Ben Stillers re-telling of THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY benefits from wondrous digital effects and the ability t…
Film Review: THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG: Middle Earth, Treat of a Movie
WARNING: contains spoilers and references to cricket! It begins with a blink and youll miss him cameo from Peter Jackson and proce…
Film Review: POWDER ROOM: cisterns are doing it for themselves
POWDER ROOM is not, as I first thought, the sequel to BOILER ROOM, in which cocaine-addicted Wall Street traders snort their way t…
Larry Oliver – Diary of a Film Reviewer – 1 to 30 November 2013
Friday 1 November 2013 Its Friday, Im in Paris, without either Lady O (no passport) or Kumar (attending English revision class, th…
Imagined censor report: KLOWN: it took three years to be released in the UK for a reason
Film classification is a mysterious art. It is practised by individuals who watch a surfeit of material likely to deprave or corru…
The Fashion of HUNGER GAMES – CATCHING FIRE – on the district carpet
It is fair to say that audiences have been flocking to see HUNGER GAMES CATCHING FIRE, the second in a mooted trilogy for the act…
Imagined Conversation: VENDETTA: should Danny Dyer fire his agent?
Its hard to explain Danny Dyer to an American audience, but Ill try. Think Steve Austin or Steven Seagal only he cant fight. Danny…
Film Review: GETAWAY – Hawke’s tail spin
There will be some Americans who think Sofia, Bulgaria is that actress from MODERN FAMILY. Its the setting for the thriller GETAWA…
