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Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 3rd, 2010 | View Comments

For idiots, by idiots: SEX AND THE CITY 2 review

If you’ve ever been out on the town, and someone’s pointed out a scantily-clad woman in high heels and said “She’s asking for it,” and you’ve laughed or agreed, then you are some degree of evil (or, hopefully, just ignorant). The flipside of this unsavoury coin is that some women are asking for it – asking to be seen as blow-up sex dolls ready to be used by any dude with a popped collar,...
Posted by Robin Hare on May 27th, 2010 | View Comments

PRINCE OF PERSIA review: even the best video game adaptation isn’t good enough

Everyone relax, the hot streak of piss-poor video-game-to-movie adaptations remains unbroken. Games cop a lot of flak for their silly scripts and dodgy voice acting, but in this case, the 2003 video game Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time is actually more stylish, coherent and charming than the 2010 movie version of the same name. How did that happen? Within the first minute of Prince Of Persia I noticed...
Posted by Robin Hare on May 21st, 2010 | View Comments

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET review: the sins of the father

I’m not big on horror. The scariest films I can remember seeing are The Thing, Rosemary’s Baby, and The Exorcist. The youngest of those is 30 years old. I haven’t seen the “classics,” the string of teen slasher flicks from the 80s, or the post-modern Scream-style stuff from the 90s; I’m most familiar with the 21st century torture porn / half-arsed reboot school of horror...
Posted by Robin Hare on May 13th, 2010 | View Comments

ROBIN HOOD review: welcome back, Mr Scott

Where should I begin? I walked into Robin Hood with low expecations. I haven’t enjoyed a single Ridley Scott film made in the last decade: Gladiator was empty and hollow if you removed the action scenes, Kingdom Of Heaven was a confused cop-out of a war flick, and … okay, so I didn’t see A Good Year or American Gangster, but can you blame me? On top of that, I was starting to worry about...
Posted by Robin Hare on Apr 29th, 2010 | View Comments

IRON MAN 2 review: no girls allowed

Julie Andrews suggests I start the very beginning (which is apparently a very good place to start), so I’ll do that: Iron Man 2 starts off bad. There’s an awkward opening scene establishing Mickey Rourke’s “Whiplash” character that comes off hideously awkward and unnecessary, which plunges quickly into a vomit-inducingly sexist scene involving various swooping close-ups of...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Apr 27th, 2010 | View Comments

CRAZY HEART hurts so good

The backdrop of a film can involve so many things– things that might feature on the poster, in the trailer or throughout the interviews that promote the film. I knew little about Scott Cooper’s Crazy Heart going in and that’s the way I prefer to view most films. Once I learned this was an independent film starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Ferrell and Robert Duvall (if you...
Posted by Robin Hare on Apr 23rd, 2010 | View Comments

HOT TUB TIME MACHINE review

Ah, the time travel adventure comedy film, that sacred ground broken nearly three decades ago by the superior Back To The Future, and rarely visited since. I guess it’s about time for another one to come along then, what with the 80s being the hotbed of nostalgia currently being explored in every facet of pop culture these days, and Hot Tub Time Machine is that film. Right up front, the main problem with...
Posted by Robin Hare on Apr 22nd, 2010 | View Comments

BENEATH HILL 60 review: in the shadow of Gallipoli

In case you missed it, World War I sucked. Protracted trench warfare in mud and clay, constant artillery barrages, chemical weapons used with abandon — and America didn’t come to noisily “save the day” on this one. It’s rare for a mainstream war movie to cover The Great War, and rarer still for an Aussie war flick to grace our sceens. But is Beneath Hill 60 of that elusive breed...
Posted by Robin Hare on Apr 20th, 2010 | View Comments

THE BOOK OF ELI review: people bad, Bible good

I was prepared, as I walked into an entirely empty cinema last night, to loathe The Book Of Eli. Movies based on Christian mythology are often boring, and sometimes offensive attempts at proselytising (Constantine, Gabriel, The End Of Days, The Passion Of The Christ), but as the screen flickered to life and the film got underway my opinion changed — slowly. Very slowly, as the film isn’t hurried,...
Posted by Robin Hare on Apr 8th, 2010 | View Comments

KICK-ASS review: more like Kiss-Ass

Never really been a huge fan of comic books, myself. They’re hard to keep track of and the writers keep rebooting the continuities on us, which is enough to confuse all but the most religious of acolytes. Hollywood’s seen some success in adapting comics to the screen lately, so it’s only logical that something like Kick-Ass came along. Forget Superhero Movie, this is the superhero movie spoof...
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