127 Hours (2010)

Aron Ralston gives an arm, not a leg, to escape the Utah canyons.

Carlos (2010) aka "Carlos the Jackal"

TV mini-series chopped down for a UK cinema release, think along the lines of The Baader Meinhof Complex and Mesrine then you'll know what to expect.

Public Enemies (2009)

Think Heat not quite at boiling point.

Janck 4 stars (Jul '09)



Cops and robbers 1930's American style.

Mitch 3.5 stars

L'ennemi public n°1 (2008) aka "Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1"

Part deux doesn't disappoint, in fact I'd say it makes for a more coherent and exciting film.. probably the best film I've seen this year to date.

L'instinct de mort aka (2008) "Mesrine: Killer Instinct"

Vincent Cassel inhabits Mesrine with sufficient arrogant swagger and aplomb. Pumping film score, explosions, hot French girls, sex, guns 'n robbing banks. People who overlook foreign language movies because they ''don't do subtitles" are really missing out.

4 stars

Che: Part One & Two (2008)

Informative, yet not a particularly gripping screenplay. Del Toro delivers in a way you'd likely expect; and though this is still worth seeing, I'd imagine the personal diaries on which this is based do more justice than the 4 hrs of film. Good, but not revolutionary.


3.5 stars

The Damned United (2009)

I wouldn't say it is the best film about football ever made, but it is in the top one .. and the sequel will even better ;-)

Janck 4.5 stars (March '09)






Hard to imagine you could make a Cloughie film with barely a whisper of Forest, but they've done it (deliberately) chronicling his ill-fated tenure at Leeds Utd. (Dirty, dirty Leeds).

Mitch 4 stars

Milk (2008)

Powerful biopic of the civil rights leader working to defeat Prop. 6 with a message of hope. Ironic that it "came out" not long after another groundbreaking leader was elected on the back of a message of hope, whilst Proposition 8 was passed into law.

4 stars Janck (Jan '09)



San Francisco, gays and activism.


4 stars Mitch