It always frustrates me to no end, some people’s insistence on making films that are, apparently, to coin the tired phrase, ‘so bad, it’s brilliant’ when in reality they’re simply just bad. Unfortunately for débutante directors Edward and Rory McHenry, Jackboots on Whitehall certainly falls into that latter category.
BY ANDREW MOORE
It’s not every day Belfast moviegoers are treated to a world exclusive event on the film calendar, but a select few had the chance to sample over 20 minutes of Disney’s upcoming sci-fi extravaganza, Tron: Legacy in 3D.
BY ANDREW MOORE
The sheer concept of The Social Network pretty much demonstrates why I could never become actively involved in the film industry, outside of a critical capacity of course. If one was to approach me with the idea for a story set around the global phenomenon Facebook then I would have laughed them straight out of the office. That would have been a crying shame because I would have cheated a lot of people out of an excellent film.
BY ANDREW MOORE
The grand city of New York has always had an affinity with the world of cinema. I only need to look at the countless DVDs on my shelf to instantly pick out several features where a story is set to this magnificent urban backdrop; The Godfather, Citizen Kane, Miracle on 34th Street. The list could go on and on. It comes as no surprise to find Emmanuel Benbihy, producer of the elegant ensemble feature Paris, Je t’aime, replicating the same formula on New York, I Love You, giving eleven world renowned film-makers free rein to make their own unique contributions to the beautiful city.
BY ANDREW MOORE
Even those who weren’t able to attend Queen’s Film Theatre on a cold rainy Saturday in September should need me to tell them how good Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 classic, The Bicycle Thieves, is. History has already decided on that.
BY ANDREW MOORE
Considering recent world events involving Russian spies caught living on American soil, the timing of Salt’s release couldn’t have been better nor more ironic. Angelina Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, who is accused of being a KGB Sleeper Agent and goes on the run to try to clear her name. Well, sort of. Salt follows similar routes with like-minded plots seen in films such as the action-packed Bourne trilogy and Tom Cruise’s ridiculously over the top, yet highly entertaining, ‘Mission: Impossible’ films.
BY ANDREW MOORE
Before even sitting down to watch Juan Campanella’s ‘The secret in their eyes’, it already had a lot to live up to. With its somewhat surprising success at this year’s Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Feature category the movie, some might say, controversially pipped two phenomenal films, ‘A prophet’ and ‘The white ribbon’ to the coveted prize. But let’s not give it an automatic 5/5 rating, based on past achievements, shall we? After all, ‘Forest Gump’ beat ‘The Shawshank redemption’ to the Best Picture prize in 1995 and in my humble opinion that doesn’t make Gump the superior film.
BY ANDREW MOORE