Senna (2011) Documentary charting the rise and tragic demise of Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Formula 1 racing superstar and "the best driver who ever lived". Rating: MMMM Director: Asif Kapadia Starring: Ayrton Senna,...
Whip It (2010) Coming of age sports movie Whip It is the directorial debut of actress turned producer Drew Barrymore. Rating: MMMM Director: Drew Barrymore Starring: Ellen Page, Kristen Wiig, Marcia Gay Harden,...
Invictus (2010) Rating: MMMMM Clint Eastwood’s latest film, Invictus tells the story of the true events that followed the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa, and Mandela’s subsequent...
Avatar (2009) Rating: MM Review of James Cameron's uber-blockbuster and long anticipated space adventure epic, Avatar. Director: James Cameron Starring: Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Giovanni Ribisi, Zoe Saldana,...
Me & Orson Welles (2009) Rating: MMMM Review of Richard Linklater's 1930s set period piece about the great Orson Welles' theatrical triumph - his version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Director: Richard Linklater Starring:...
Rating: MMM
Review of Peter Jackson’s adaptation of the 2002 best-selling novel of the same name, by Alice Sebold. The Lovely Bones tells the story of 14-year-old Susie Salmon who watches her family and friends from heaven after her grisly murder.
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Saiorse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon
Running time: 135 mins
Rating: MMM+
New slick comedy-drama from the award-winning director of Juno, Jason Reitman.
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick
Running time: 109 mins
Rating: MMM+
Delayed review of director Chris Weitz’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the second instalment in the 4-part series of the teen vampire romance, based on the novels by Stephenie Meyer.
Director: Chris Weitz
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Michael Sheen
Running time:130 mins
Rating: MM+
Review of black comedy-horror Jennifer’s Body, written by Oscar winning Diablo Cody, writer of 2007 indie hit Juno.
Director: Karyn Kusama
Starring: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, J.K. Simmons, Adam Brody, Johnny Simmons, Kyle Gallner
Running time: 102 mins
Rating: MMM+
Review of Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film, Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos), starring his current screen muse Penélope Cruz.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Lluis Homar, Blanca Portillo, Tamar Noves, José Luis Gómez
Running time: 127 mins
Rating: MMM
Review of the latest film of the Harry Potter franchise, sixth film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince which sees Harry and Dumbledore unite to search into Voldemort’s past in an effort to discover secrets that will lead them to destroy him.
Director: David Yates
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson
Running time: 153 mins
Rating: MMM
Review of Brüno, the latest character-driven film from Sacha Baron Cohen.
Director: Larry Charles
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen
Running time: 83 mins
Rating: MMM
Review of Push first published in a March 2009 issue Spark*, the newspaper of Reading University Students’ Union.
Director: Paul McGuigan
Starring: Chris Evans, Camilla Belle, Dakota Fanning, Djimon Hounsou
Running Time: 111 mins
Rating: MMM
Review of Bolt first published in a February 2009 issue Spark*, the newspaper of Reading University Students’ Union.
Director: Byron Howard, Chris Williams
Starring: (voices) John Travolta, Miley Cyrus
Running Time: 96mins
Rating: MMM
Review of Doubt first published in a February 2009 issue Spark*, the newspaper of Reading University Students’ Union.
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Starring: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
Running time: 104 mins