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...
Up In The Air (2010) 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 In...
Sherlock Holmes (2009) Rating: MMMM Review of 'geezer' director Guy Ritchie's adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic character (and the world's most famous detective) the inimitable Sherlock Holmes. Director: Guy Ritchie Starring:...
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,...
Guest contributor Nancy Bentley gives the low-down on the new film from director Edgar Wright.
Rating: MMMMM
Director: Edgar Wright
Starring: Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Running time: 112 mins
Cert: 12A
Rating: MMMM
Review of Disney’s return to traditional 2-D hand-drawn animation and to familiar fairytales, this new adventure based on the tale of ‘The Princess and the Frog’.
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Starring: (voices) Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Keith David, Oprah Winfrey
Running time: 97 mins
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, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez
Running time: 162mins
Rating: MMMM
Review of new film from niche director Spike Jonze, his adaptation and big-screen realisation of one of the world’s most popular children’s books.
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker
Running time: 101 mins
Rating: MM
Review of the latest fantasy feast for the eyes from ‘maverick’ director Terry Gilliam.
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Verne Troyer, Tom Waits, Andrew Garfield
Running time: 122 mins
To celebrate Halloween, The Crow suggests itself rather well as the perfect watch for the annual spook-fest, centred not only around death and resurrection but set on the night before Halloween, the hellishly named “Devil’s Night”.
Director: Alex Proyas
Starring: Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson, Rochelle Davis, Anna Thomson
Running time: 97mins
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: MMMM
Review of Coraline first published in a May 2009 issue of Spark*, the newspaper of Reading University Students’ Union.
Director: Henry Selick
Starring (voices): Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Ian McShane
Running time: 100 mins
Rating: MMMM
Review of Twilight first published in January 2009 issue Spark*, the newspaper of Reading University Students’ Union.
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Peter Facinelli, Nikki Reed
Running time: 122 mins
Rating: MM
Review of Igor first published in an October 2008 issue Spark*, the newspaper of Reading University Students’ Union.
Director: Anthony Leonidas
Starring: (voices) John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, Sean Hayes
Running time: 87 mins