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Posted at 3:05pm Friday 17th Feb, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 THE TRIPDir: Michael Winterbottom. Starring: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon.
First of all, an apology. Last week’s ‘Pick of the Week’ – Texas Killing Fields – accidentally ended up with five stars. It should have been four. I liked it, but not quite that much. And I like this week’s pick a lot. It’s not a film with...
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Posted at 11:43am Friday 10th Feb, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 TEXAS KILLING FIELDS
Starring: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain. Dir: Ami Canaan Mann
Daughter of Michael Mann – who serves as producer here – Ami Canaan Mann has worked mainly as a television and film writer. Her one previous film as director (2001’s Morning) won awards, but was largely unnoticed. Here she moves...
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Posted at 4:24pm Friday 03rd Feb, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 How I ended this summer
Dir: Aleksey Popogrebskiy. Starring: Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergey Puskepalis
Not to be confused in any way with I Know What You Did Last Summer, this is a Russian film, a taught investigation of mistrust and isolation which very much defines the term “psychological thriller”.The set-up is simplicity itself: at a polar...
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Posted at 4:35pm Friday 27th Jan, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 TROLL HUNTER
Dir: Andre Ovredal. Starring: Otto Jespersen, Robert Stoltenberg, Knut Nærum
There’s something very appealing about eccentrically grand follies (and I’m not using that word in a pejorative sense): a unique idea, absolutely pointless, but carried out with great style. That’s pretty much where Trollhunter sits. It’s...
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Posted at 11:16am Monday 23rd Jan, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 THE TREE OF LIFE Dir: Terrence Malick. Starring: Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Sean Penn
Opinions have been sharply divided about The Tree of Life, illustrated perfectly by the fact that it was booed at the Cannes Film Festival when it won the top award. And indeed it is a challenging film. But at the very least it sets its sights high, aiming at nothing...
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Posted at 3:08pm Friday 13th Jan, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
It wasn’t the greatest year for big family action films, but a few stood out in the crowded field of insipid superheroes.
X Men: First Class was the pick of comic book bunch though there were frustrations amongst its fine moments. Michael Fassbender made a great Young Magneto, though where his Irish accent came from (and where it goes to) remain...
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Posted at 4:02pm Friday 06th Jan, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 Another year begins and – as is traditional – I’ve been trawling through memories of last year’s viewing: the things on DVD and Blu-ray that have stuck in my mind.
The biggest development through 2011 was the blossoming of 3D. There are now 3D Blu-rays out there (for people who have the requisite equipment) but the real change...
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Posted at 4:51pm Thursday 22nd Dec, 2011 | By Winston Watusi
 METROPIA
Dir: Tarik Saleh. Starring: Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Stellan and Alex Skarsgard
Set in 2024 Europe, Metropia is a left-field slice of Swedish animation (though the soundtrack is in English). It’s bleak, but shot through with humour and is unlike any other animated offering from this year.
It is set in a dystopian future, surveillance...
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Posted at 3:46pm Friday 16th Dec, 2011 | By Winston Watusi
 COWBOYS & ALIENSDir: Jon Favreau. Starring: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde.
It’s got cowboys, it’s got aliens – it’s Cowboys & Aliens. Some concepts don’t require a lot of explanation. What’s surprising – and gratifyingly successful – is the approach of throwing a high-end cast at an idea more...
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Posted at 4:21pm Friday 09th Dec, 2011 | By Winston Watusi
 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APESStarring: James Franco, John Lithgow, Andy Serkis. Dir: Robert Wyatt.
Occasionally a summer blockbuster comes along that absolutely nails it, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes does exactly that.
Fans of the old series of Planet of the Apes films will notice that this rather departs from the original timeline, eliding at...
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