I've been terribly busy lately and haven't been able to make many reviews, and as a result of my lack of posts it seems the popularity of the blog has sky-rocketed, and we're now on the brink of quadruple figures. So in an attempt to save the servers from crippling under the traffic caused by my absence, I bring you this post. I like to think of myself as a cultured yet objective film reviewer, but in actuality I'm probably just a snob, so it's...

Little Miss Sunshine is a feel good film that's actually about feeling good, instead of it being a by-product of someone we like getting laid. It follows a family of assorted insecure people who each deal with it in their own way, taking their daughter/sister/niece/granddaughter on a road trip to take part in a beauty pageant. The little girl Olive is absolutely adorable, and is a naive young lady who's being guided through life by her family...

Donnie Darko is a film about abstract things that neither I, nor the people who made the film, could get their head around. Starring a very young Jake Gyllenhaal as a disturbed lad, it explores themes like time travel and fate and mental illness, and seems to find itself at a dead end in every case. The film begins with Donnie waking up in the middle of a road, and when he gets home he finds that a plane engine came out of nowhere and fell through...

I honestly can't decide if this is a shit action film or a brilliant satire. Sylvester Stallone brings us this cacophony of explosions and stabbing, which follows the exploits of an all-star gang of mercenaries as they shoot up the small island of Vilenia, which is suspiciously close to Burma. And this film is pretty much just Rambo with more than one Rambo. The film starts with some terrorists beheading someone on a boat, just before our heroes...

If this film is anything to go off, follow these easy steps to make a girl fall in love with you: 1. Threaten to kill yourself until she agrees to go out with you 2. Play chicken in the road with her 3. Take her to an isolated, derelict house and have your way with her. 4. ??? 5. Profit The Notebook is a typical chick-flick, even down to starring Rachel McAdams, who's in so many of these films now that I feel like I'm supposed to cry when she...

In celebration of the blog hitting 420 views (I make my own milestones), I've decided to do this list of scary films not many people will have heard of. The list begins gently with a film that'll make you ruin a few pairs of pants, and ends with a film that will make life not seem worth the effort it takes to breathe. 5. [REC] 2007 This is a film a lot of you may already be familiar with, and are probably now feeling misled as to the obscure...

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a film based on a series of comic books, and this seizure-inducing 2 hours is what happens when Edgar Wright tries to do too much at once. Scott Pilgrim is a lad in a band and he falls for a girl called Ramona. Apparently she has 7 evil exs; all of whom need to be defeated if he wants to be with her. Don't ask. Being a film from Edgar Wright, it's a very sleek and stylish affair, with an aesthetic heavily inspired...

Audition is a film best summed up with the timeless words of Haddaway. What is love? Baby don't hurt me. This film is by Japan's finest Takashi Miike, who also brought us Ichi the Killer, among many others, and is a psychological horror about a TV executive who's looking for a new wife. While doing some auditions for a film, he becomes entangled with a peculiar young lady. This is a decision he will later regret. Definitely. The film begins...

Step Brothers is a silly comedy from Adam McKay, who also brought us The Other Guys, which I really quite liked. Shame about this one. The film stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as 40 year old children who become step-in-laws when their lone parents marry. The first thing I wanted to know was why are these two so childish? They act kind of adult for the first 10 minutes, but then they become complete infants. The only very loose reason for...

Pearl Harbor is a film about a truly pathetic love triangle. And nothing else. If you like soppy, on-the-nose dialogue being given a false sense of significance thanks to a near constant orchestral soundtrack and tight camera angles, go kill yourself. But coincidentally, that's what this film is full of. The film is about two best friends who are also pilots in the army during World War II, and they both love the same girl. One of them falls...

127 Hours is the latest offering from Britain's own Danny Boyle, and tells the story of a man stuck down a hole for a few days. It's based on the autobiographical book "Between a Rock and a Hard Place", and offers a solution to anyone finding their self in such a situation. Cut your arm off. The film looks really nice, and comes flying out of the gates with a nice fast pace, up-beat music, and some stylish split-screens. The film has a very British...