Review: Looper

In this high concept sci-fi thriller the principal players are both the same character (Joe), with Joseph Gordon-Levitt taking the role of his younger self and Bruce Willis playing the older and wiser version. Writer/Director Rian Johnson takes the concept of time travel, mixes it with a film noir feel and adds a gangster style narrative that leaps and bounds in unexpected directions.

You can read my full review over at Starburst Magazine

Released on 28th September 2012

The Dark Knight Rises

It finally arrives tomorrow and it is pretty good, you can read my review over on Starburst

The masks are cool and everything but Selina Kyle wears some wicked boots. Someone send me a pair. Juno Temple makes her way into the Nolan gang too (loved her in Killer Joe and Dirty Girl).

Mental Illness, Cancer and Melodrama

Michael Shannon is marvellous as a man on the edge in Take Shelter - a film that mixes horror, thriller and drama - highly recommended. It may even make it into my top ten of 2011. You can read my review over on Cinetalk.

50/50 is another excellent film out this week. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is wonderful in the lead role of this comedy about cancer. It could have gone horribly wrong, but due to a strong script from Will Reiser it manages to strike the balance between comedy and drama. 

You can read my review on Cinetalk

The Deep Blue Sea should have made me cry but it just didn't. Wonderful to watch and captures the era perfectly. I would recommend catching it at the cinema as it looks so beautiful. 

You can read my review on Cinetalk

55th BFI London Film Festival Quickie

LFF is under way and it is showing some abosolutely top notch films this year.

All my reviews will be posted on Cinetalk so please follow them for my coverage this year.

Reviews so far below:

50/50

Like Crazy

The Future

Take Shelter

Las Acacias

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