With a new director, a seemingly smaller budget and a completely different feel, The Girl Who Played With Fire didn’t feel like a true sequel to the amazing The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. While all of the remarkable actors from the original are back and manage to do a splendid job with their roles, the movie felt a bit lacking in the direction and the...

A sexy Murder Mystery with an extremely dark coat of paint about it; The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a Swedish crime story directed by Niels Arden Oplev and based on a novel by the same name. On the surface it is a story about a wealthy old man who hires a famous journalist to investigate his missing family member of 40 years – a beautiful young woman...

The cinematography is beautiful, from the lush green hills to the bright olive waters that house the grass stalks where the serenity is only broken by kung fu practitioners battling each other for the right to live.  The choreography is as clean as it gets, making sure that we don’t miss any breaks, blocks or punches. The fighting was Wing Chun styled with...

Framed in black and white, and accented with the beauty of the women and men that litter the cast, Tetro is a complex story presented in different styles that are uncommon in today’s cinema. The story is about family, and how the most fractured and damaged of them can still achieve hope through love. Tetro is about a boy who tried to run away from his...

While I am sure that Buried looked as good as the other one-man-show Moon on paper, the execution on film (especially the big screen) was not great. I am not sure if it’s the fault of the actor Ryan Reynolds, or the strange pacing on the suspect script that killed it but by the time 10 minutes had passed I was dreading the length of time it would take to...

Can Christopher Nolan do any wrong amongst fans? The man has become the silent Jerry Rice of Directors, making big plays whenever he’s thrown the ball and stepping aside gracefully until it’s his time again. Inception was described to me by a friend as having left him with the same feeling of wonder that he felt when he first saw The Dark Knight. For...