Following on from the first two films, this is a prequel as we follow the two women from the first films, Katie and Kristi, in the year 1988 when they are young children and first start to ...

Winner of the Grand Prix of the Jury at Cannes 2011. The film begins at dusk and finishes in the early hours of the morning. It seems to be presented in a real time, adding the power of the length ...

Co-written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, directed by Wright, and starring Pegg, this is one of the funniest movies I've seen. I compare it to the "Hot Shots" movies by Abrahms and Proft. Part slasher flick, part buddy movie, ...

Plot - We follow mankind at various points in it's evolution as it encounters a series of mysterious monoliths and its effect on them... Thoughts - An astonishing piece of film making. There are moments in the film that you ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxzJKnEgUM4&list=UUbJGBu6W9S4bD25q1VgbB5w&index=2&feature=plcp Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara were on the red carpet at the UK Premiere of David Fincher's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", based on the first novel of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, which captured the imagination of audiences ...

The Conversation This may be the best Seventies paranoia film, chock full of astounding actors: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Frederic Forest, Cindy Williams, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford, Robert Duvall, and others. This was written and directed in 1974 by Francis ...

This is a punk movie directed by Ulf Malmros. It starts at the end and loops around in fits and starts till you get all the details filled in. Starring Tuva Novotny in the title roll and Jonas Rimeika as ...

This is one of the two best mini-series I've seen.* It has excellent casting, excellent photography, even excellent sound. And the script, by Dennis Potter, is amazing. I'd say there are three or four master's theses in that script for ...

After eight films and ten years Harry Potter has graduated from Hogwarts. And with his graduation we’re finally able to look back on his time and see how the films work in a wider context. However, this ...

For my second review on filmaster, I am reviewing the movie "I Love You, Beth Cooper," starring Hayden Panettiere, Paul Rust, and Jack Carpenter. I remember looking at the ...

Polanski does it better.

Remember the story of Red Riding Hood? Well, Catherine Hardwicke doesn’t. Nor does the writer of the film, which as a whole can be summed up as a manifesto of why there are not that many female movie directors. Most ...

A quietly excellent movie about murder, racism, and love.

This is an interesting movie. I believe it is of the magical realism genre: the director (Guillermo del Toro) has, in my opinion, left wiggle room for two views.

Premiered on Film4 last night and I'm always partial to some good horror and it seemed to have a high star rating, so on it went. My first mistake there . Plot - The 'unobtainable, perfect' untouched girl (Amber Heard) ...

It’s hard to really write a synopsis for Source Code without either giving away spoilers or taking away the excitement that the audience gets in watching the narrative unravel. So as best as I can, the ...

An intelligent film from Carol Reed and Graham Greene, starring Ralph Richardson as the butler in the French embassy in London. The screenplay by Greene is based on his short story "The Basement Room," and the script is excellent, requiring ...

We are told that The Rite is 'inspired by' true events and 'suggested by' a Matt Baglio book, but perhaps the film that immediately came to mind for director Mikael Håfström was The Exorcist. "What did you expect?!" asks veteran ...

This is a difficult film on many levels. Describing the plot is difficult for several reasons. One is that I should not give too much away. Another is that the plot is difficult to get a handle on. By the ...

There is a hell, but the inferno is inside us.