Movie Reviews

Review: The Spirit

Original Spirit creator Will Eisner passed away three years before his series made it to the screen. Kimberly Gadette muses: talk about your mixed blessings.

Review: The Wrestler

Esoteric Aronofsky rough-houses with Rourke in The Wrestler. Kimberly Gadette wonders: is it a match?

Review: Australia

Nicole Kidman plays a Barbara Stanwyck style, early Rancher Woman. Kimberly Gadette wonders: Will she get a stamp-ede of approval?

Review: Slumdog Millionaire

Charles Dickens is alive and well in 21st century Mumbai. Kimberly Gadette reviews Slumdog Millionaire.

Review: Frost/Nixon

Can a smash West End/Broadway play staged between two talking heads translate into stellar cinema? Kimberly Gadette reviews Frost/Nixon.

Review: Twilight

Does Twilight have bite? Or does it simply, um, bite? Kimberly Gadette finds out.

Talk about re-vamping your life: shy new girl in town Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) relocates to the mist-laden Pacific Northwest from the blistering desert sun of Phoenix, Arizona.

Review: The Good, The Bad, The Weird

The Good, The Bad, The Weird is a riotous, vivid swashbuckler set in the 1930s. The most expensive Korean movie to date, it's a kimchi take on the Western, specifically referencing Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.The film opens with a dynamic steam-train robbery, where three outlaws collide. Like its Sergio Leone predecessor, each outlaw represents one of the title's qualities.

Review: Quantum of Solace

Daniel Craig's second outing as 007 has already broken UK box office records for an opening Friday, taking £4.9 million in its first night and proving to be the film of choice for 70% of film-goers over its opening weekend. But is it as good as Casino Royale?

Review: Hamlet 2

Hamlet 2 seems to set out to spoof the 'inspiring teacher' sub-genre, and its weakest moments come as a result of following the required well-trodden plotline and revisiting the associated stock characters. But unlike most mainstream comedies, which are focus-grouped into pastel blandness, Hamlet 2's jokes are genuinely funny, with the frisson of risk and edgy offensiveness that makes for laugh-out-loud humour.