Dans La Maison – In The House

A clever, and at times very funny, film about the developing mentor/mentee relationship between a teacher and one of his pupils. Teachers (and I think there were several in the audience with me) will enjoy the sequence a the beginning of the film in which there is much poking of fun at the new pedagogy …

My top 12 films of 2012

I suppose most people do a top 10 at the end of the year. But I've seen so many good films in 2012 that I was finding it difficult to narrow down to just 10. And then I heard Mark Kermode decide it was OK to have 12 films for 2012 - and who am I t...

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Cards on the table: I only went to see this because I wanted to see what a film in 48 frames per second would look like. I would have gone to see just about anything, and this happened to be the first one that came along. It's several decades sinc...

I, Anna

Oh dear me. The marketing for this film describes it in terms such as this, from IMDb.com: A noir thriller told from the point of view of a femme fatale, who falls for the detective in charge of a murder case. Well it's not 'noir', Anna is not a '...

Jagten – The Hunt

The ending to this film stayed with me for quite a while after I'd seen it, and completely over-rode the few doubts I'd had about it at the beginning. The beautiful and most excellent actor Mads Mikkelsen plays a quiet, lonely but amiable kinderga...

End of Watch

Liked this a lot. It's a great observation of the relationship between two cops, patrolling tough neighbo(u)rhoods of Los Angeles. The two leads (the always watchable Jake Gyllenhaal, and Michael Pe??a) are great together, and the film was really e...

Star Trek Into Darkness – TRAILER

Squeeeeee! I have returned. To have. My. Vengeance. The countdown starts here ...

The Master

There's a scene in the film (it's in the trailer, too so it's not giving anything away), where one of the characters says "He's making all this up as he goes along - you don't see that?". Well I'm convinced that's what director Paul Thomas Anderso...

Silver Linings Playbook

Handsome (but damaged) Bradley Cooper comes out of a mental institution and crosses paths with attractive (but damaged) Jennifer Lawrence. I'm not really sure where all the Oscar talk is coming from (apart from the fact that it's a Weinstein-backe...

The Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn – Part 2

If you're not 'with' the Twilight franchise, then this film will do nothing for you. I've watched all the films, and this one was fine. It's not the best of the series, but it finishes off the story in a satisfactory manner. I haven't read any of ...